If i lived in the Lakes/Snowdonia, it would certainly encourage me to run more miles (i think my last week's holiday in the Lakes i knocked up 101 miles)

However the thought of going for a bog-standard "evening run" round here, with no purpose, doesn't appeal to me much at all... i'd much rather get on a treadmill and do some decent hard work followed by a gym session, or a club session on the track/road.