Last year, I registered for the Sinister 7 100-miler. Long story short, I wasn't properly trained for a mountain ultra at the time, and I ended up with a DNF at the end of leg 4. I had successfully completed the 50 miler the previous year and had thoroughly enjoyed the run, and whilst I had debated going back again to give the 100 miler another go, one of the things that prevented me leaping at the opportunity was the the first few miles of leg 1 - there was just too much pavement for my liking, it was far too crowded, and it was really difficult to get in to a flow for several miles which put me in the wrong frame of mind before we'd even got properly started with the race! Sinister definitely was not on my race plans for this year, but when my coach scheduled in a 50km trail run on the same day as the race, I sought out a last minute bib and registered for the 50km, Although this would mean running leg 1, this year the route had changed, and runners would be directed on to...