There’s the route, which is a great multi-terrain course, along streams, over weirs, up lovely hillside tracks, intense woodland with glimpses through the autumn thinned out trees of Painswick, in the heart if the Cotswolds.

Once the mud has subsided from your shoes, it’s time to run through the Church yard with 99 trees.  A bit further along is the view down the Stroud Valley, before a downhill stretch to the finish of the race.