10.09 miles, 4,056 feet, 3 hours 17 minutes: Wansfell Pike from 2 sides, including up/down the race route from/to the kissing gate, and down to Troutbeck via Nanny Lane and back up again. Initially very overcast and drizzly, but it gradually cleared, resulting in sunshine/blue sky, and a mixture of cloud types mainly above the high tops. That extremely strong wind is back - from the west. Terrain wet/saturated/streaming and slippery. I saw perhaps a dozen walkers on the fell, and 3 runners.

On my first visit to the Pike the wind was so strong I decided to play safe and approached it from the south east rather than up the very last set of steps. On my second visit it had eased to an extent, but was still very strong until I was below 1,000 feet.