I was able to set off at 7:40 having woken at 5:45 and given up trying to go back to sleep. This had the advantage of setting off before the day got really hot again. Frustratingly my glute was playing up having been good the day before. I hoped that with a couple of ibuprofen and applying deep heat it would fade over a couple of hours which to a large extent it did. I was distracted by a deer running off over a field apparently chased by something I couldn’t quite make sense of - it didn't look right for a fox. It then chased something similar and I was very confused. It was only when I got my monocular out that I realised they were hares chasing each other - the mad March hare syndrome. Perhaps someone should explain to them it’s now May! I met a Pennine Way walker struggling to cross the busy road at Thornton in Craven. He was ending in Hawes this time, but had started the same time as me from the Edale campsite, but had gone up Jacob’s Ladder not Grindsbrook. He was inte...