Of course, I'd like to run the UTMB again in 2007 and, if possible, to finish it (first difficulty will be to get in...).

But what about other plans ? You know, the kind of things you think about, but you don't really believe you'll carry on for good. The Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc was one of them. And the dream did eventually happen! So why not another one, slightly different, maybe harder, maybe crazier... Lots of those dreams will probably never happen, but I still hope to complete at least a couple of them.

On the long term, I still have the idea to walk one of the European long distance paths. But none of them is exactly the one I dream of. Because it needs to follow the GR5 in France (Vosges, Jura, Alpes), but the E2 is too short. Ideally, it would start from the North of Scandinavia, then head South to Denmark, Germany, France and Spain... That's probably 6000 to 7000km, a year walking :)

On the mid-term (in the coming years), I wish I could complete the Nice Ironman (*), because I want to try something a bit different and also because it's usually considered as a challenge.
I would also like to run the Grand Union Canal 145 mile Race (233km), from Birmingham to London. This is a properly organised race with food points if you need them, which helps a lot, but on the other hand I'm still wondering if following a canal by night in the Midlands is very nice...
More symbolic, following the Thames from source to sea. A National Trail, the Thames path, actually follows the Thames for about 294km, from the source to the Thames Barrier. So far, I've thought mostly about running from the source to the sea, following the water flow. But as suggested by some web sites, the other way round may also be an option. Because escaping London feels nicer, and the sort of quest to the source is highly symbolic. I don't know if this has been done so far. As nothing is organised, I would need a small team (or a big bag) to carry one with this project.
And of course, there's still this multi-day run, the UK diagonal from Dover to Cape Wrath, detailed previously in my blog, or maybe the more common but also slightly longer Land's End to John O'Groats (LEJOG).

Ultra plans.

(*) An ironman is a triathlon composed of 3.8km swimming, 180km cycling and a marathon (42.2km running).