Ye Old Dun Cow was an excellent place to stay with a good breakfast to set me up for the day. I left at 10am having warmed up with right side glute still playing up. In some discomfort I took small, slow paces to warm up and was cheered by the sun and 4 buzzards enjoying the thermals above, mewing to each other. At Stockwell Heath pond a pair of Canada geese arched and bobbed their necks suspiciously at me as they guarded their brood of chicks, along with mallards and their 3 chicks and a moorhen. It was now quite warm so I put KT tape on my shoulders to protect them from chaffing with backpack, and a swig of water to keep me going. There followed a potential incident with cows and calves. Leaving an attractive stream - actually the outflow for the reservoir at STW - I came to a field of cows, one looking particularly hard at me with her calf by her side. Suddenly the whole herd started to trot towards me with half a dozen starting to cross my path which would have meant me being in th...