Turton and Entwistle reservoir run 2nd June 2011

Met Nick at 2.30pm at Clough Head Car Park.
The plan - to make it to Turton and Entwistle res.
We tried this, unsuccessfully a month or so ago.
On the map, it looks pretty straight forward after about 3 miles across the moors, taking in Hog Lowe Pike you follow the feeder stream to the res. Straightforward?? No, the feeder stream is overgrown and you are completely unable to run for large sections.
I've spent a fair bit of time looking at OS maps and had hoped to find 'the route'.
As luck would have it we did indeed find a pretty straight forward route that took us to higher ground than we had been on last time we tried this run.
From a higher vantage point 4.5 miles in we could make out the reservoir we were after.
A quick detour on the outskirts of 'Entwistle' and we ended up on the path to the res.
What was becoming obvious was, we were and had been travelling downhill for a while.
This section leading to the res was fantastic, you could make water out through the trees, but just faint sections of it. 5.5 miles in and I was feeling great!

We had a trot around the first section of the reservoir. The second res and the res that was hidden from our view is one we will be back to run around. This should add approximately 5 miles to the total distance.
The reservoir was looking very still and peaceful.

The run back followed the same route as the way out.
The difference, there was a lot of uphill running.
Still felt good!
The last mile of the run was becoming tough. I'd run pretty hard at times and was beginning to feel it!
We arrived home, covering about 12 miles, 1500ft of climbing and happy!

Stats - that's quite a bit of climbing coming home!