Round Derwentwater Run

Timing is sometimes poor. I’d booked the Thursday off work to do a few organising type things with the aim of at least a medium length run in the afternoon. I just happened to pick a biblical rainfall day! Despite the hint of a promise of a drier afternoon, it never materialised, and it just hooned it down all day! I eventually got to Keswick and after aborting my original plan of running up high, and of parking at Stormwater Bridge (the river was looking decidedly close to its banks) I changed to plan B, parked nearer the centre of the town, out of reach of the river and went for a zig-zaggy trail run around Derwentwater. Covered 12 miles in the end, at a slower pace than I intended. I couldn’t cross the top of the lake near the Lodore as the lake and river had made a break for it, so had to run down to Grange on the road. Many of the paths were deep with running water, and the air was thick with rain. It felt good to get out though and loosen the legs.