I just stopped for 5 minutes at Checkpoint One, before driving around Bedfordshire for an hour getting lost and feeling like a proper Checkpoint Charlie whilst looking for Checkpoint Two. By the time I found it - having unwittingly driven past it - 30 runners had already checked in and out again, so I headed for Kempston to make sure I was there ahead of everyone crossing the meadow there . .

and then I was off on my magical mystery tour . . although I could easily have stayed here under the patches of blue sky and taken photos of all the trains passing by . .