Out to Pilgrims Cross

A bit of a cold snap has returned, down to about 0 degrees and potential snow!
So the weather forecasters said - what did they know.
Set off from Clough Head Car Park at about 2.00pm.
Felt a bit sluggish when we set off (wrestling with the children for an hour before the run.)
Definitely cold today - plenty of coughing in the first couple of miles - but a  beautful day for a run.

There was traces of snow on them there hills.
Followed the usual route out along the Rossendale way.
Followed the route right out to the bottom of Bull Hill.
This time rather than run straight up Bull Hill we followed the lower path, basically to see where it took us.
We followed the path passed the flags at the Army shooting range - meaning the Army were actually firing!
The higher we got the more SNOW was on the ground.
The path took us to the Pilgrim's Cross monument.
At this point we turned and headed up the hill towards the trig point.
We ran off from the trig to be met with a sight of pure white!

A complete contrast to what we had mainly run through.
We followed the run off -slippy!!
After running around the next valley the snow had totally disappeared.
This was the last photo I took before the clag descended fully.
It shows the next valley looking at Tor Hill.

 The rest of the run was pretty strong.
Felt good.
The last climb though up from the reservoir was a killer.
Really tough.
Back to the car in 2 hours, 10 mile run, 1200 cals, Avg HR 140, 1,400 ft of climbing.

Great run.
Nice to find a spot on '10 miler'
Summary of the run below.

Pendle planned for Thursday!