Nice Day For A Walk

Great Whernside Summit

After a good couple of weeks training averaging 60-70 miles each week something had to give and I ended up going down with a cold. On a training run in the Lakes last Sunday with Lee & Ian in which we set off from Threlkeld and went up Blease Fell across the top to Blencathra then descending via Scales Fell before returning back to Threlkeld and is a route that normally I would find quite easy but turned out to be harder than normal with my body having no energy at all. So for the rest of the week it was a case of resting and letting my body recover from the cold. After 5 days off  on Saturday I meet up with another training partner of mine Eddie who has also been out of action with an injured calf muscle and we decided to do a walk instead of a run. On a lovely sunny but cold frosty morning we set off from Kettlewell in the dales and climbed to the top of Great Whernside. On reaching the top we had some fantastic views all around so good that we could see the Lakeland Fells in the distance. From the top of Great Whernside we made our way across to Buckden Pike, passing the memorial to the Polish airmen that crashed there during WW2, where we saw a couple of runners out on a recce of the 60 miles Fellsman route. After a quick bite to eat on the top of Buckden Pike we followed the path down to Buckden village then followed the Dales Way path back to Kettlewell to end a nice day out for a walk.

Polish War Memorial