Enabled by my full-time-athlete status I now embark on the occasional mid-week adventure with anyone who is available. Today YJ drew the short straw.
We met at Chez YJ in Longton and set off down Marsh Lane, past the Blue Dolphin, which we both knew from our youths by its local name as the Flying Fish. In those days it was a primitive hostelry which served warm flat beer through a hole in the kitchen wall to punters in the small bar-room. It's now much extended and updated.
We picked up our route along the upstream earthen Douglas flood wall at the point where the Ribble Way starts its upstream journey alongside that river. At this point the Ribble flows approximately east to west and the Douglas flows approximately south to north.
We followed the wall on pleasant ground in breezy sunshine, past the Hesketh Bank marina on the far shore, until the point where the river is joined by the Rufford Branch of the Leeds Liverpool canal near Tarleton:- http://www.penninewaterways.co.uk/ll/ll93.htm. (we were on the raised green bank that can be seen on the left of the final photo on this link) We then turned north to find our way back to Longton via road and footpaths.
Just short of ten miles with just short of ten feet of climbing. A good morning out.
Didn't make last night's SROC/SELOC event from Astley Bridge as I had already done an hour on the bike (cleats!) in the morning and Winter Hill with SN at tea-time - it's a hard life being an f-t-a.
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