Luckily at the start the weather had been good clear and mild with a slight cool wind perfect for running and getting lost in, the second leg however started with overcast dark clouds and the temperature cooling off – a great boost to my running even though I could of done with a Gel pack I was not wishing to become soaked nor stuck in the muddy fields; pushing as hard as I could, using all the mental strength I could muster to stop myself from taking a short cut, determined in completing the 12 miles I soon got past the cross country tracks and onto the dry road that runs down to Baldock my home town – 2 miles to go and completed! Still it was not until I got back that I could assess how well I really did – another round of applause to Mapmyrun.com. My wish is to do an ultra trail marathon has come out of the love for mountains and for running both of which have never been mixed together and thus trail running? Sounds like a match made in heaven. I was reading the Trail Running magazine the other day, this was the first time I had brought let alone picked up a magazine on this subject. And saw photo’s and read stories on mountain marathons, one came up the North Face Ultra-Trail Du Mont-Blanc although it looks amazing, with absolutely stunning scenery it is one to reach for sometime in the future. There are other more sedate and less arduous trail races such as Skyrunning of which France, Italy and Switzerland are quite attractive – being that they are more local than US or Russia – And less expensive to get to!