Today marks the last day of running in Russia. I fortunately had the honor of running the last 10 miles to the border. As I exited the van to begin my run, Unit Blue wished me luck and drove off to the hotel. As I began my run up a mountain I was thinking to myself that I am going to enjoy this run because who knows when I will be back in this part of the world. After 3 miles of running I started seeing more and more activity in the city. People were appear from dark roads and bushes. This is always a shock to me because Its amazing that at 12 midnight in the middle of nowhere people are smiling and talking headed somewhere. This is strange because I am always wondering where are they going since I just ran anywhere from 3-10 miles and nothing was around. It is also frightening sometimes because they stop and look at me and wonder what is going on with this guy running and a police car behind flashing its lights. At one point in my run six dogs started barking at me, but I continued running at the same pace since there was people all around me staring at me. By mile six I was at the top of another large hill looking down at the border crossing and could see Mongolia. Now that was an amazing site to see. To think I have been in Russia for a whole month now. I guess the fun has to end sometime and tonight was the night. I have so many memories of Russia that this trip has given me that, I will never think as I used to (in the past) about this country again.

Song for the day “Runaway”- band Bon Jovi