The Trail Quillan run has been on my to-do list for years. This year, I finally did it.

The run starts and finishes in Quillan, down by the Aude river, but goes a way up high onto tracks above the cliffs where Griffon vultures roost. They have a history of occasionally eating people who fall in the Pyrenees. I had paid for the post-race lunch and was determined to not be lunch.