May 30
On Wednesday evening Liane, Larry, Edie, Kevin, Sandy, Hazra, Rod, and Brigitte walked from the mall along Cameron, behind the Cameron Rec Centre to check on its progress – it is still a big pit but plenty of equipment and materials are there – then walked on the Stoney Creek trail to the trail that goes behind Stoney Creek elementary school, up to cross the Gaglardi overpass, along the trail that runs parallel to Forest Grove Drive, then down Production Way to Eastlake, through Eastlake Park to Keswick, Bell, Lougheed Hwy to Bartlett, and back to the mall. Larry, Sandy and Kevin walked from Keswick through Salish Court to Erickson and back to the mall.
Our distance was at least 7.5 km and our time was about 90 minutes. The weather was summer-like, warm and sunny.
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May 28
On Monday evening Liane, Larry, Edie, Kevin, René, Sandy, Brenda, Glenn, Hazra, Rod, and Brigitte walked from the mall along Cameron, Beaverbrook, and the Stoney Creek trail to North Road, and returned the same way. René and Brenda walked up North Road to Chapman before returning, extending their walk, their distance about 6 km. The rest of the group’s distance was about 5 km and our time was about 50 minutes.
From Jennel: On Monday Jennel walked 8 km, including 2 km with her dogs, and on Tuesday 2 km with the dogs and 5 km around Town Centre.
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May 26
On Saturday morning Liane, Larry, Shiraz and Edie walked from the Burnaby Mountain golf course along Woodbrook, Augusta, Duthie, the urban trail to Kensington, and back the same way. Our distance was 6 km and our time was 1h10.
Good weather, and it warmed up during our walk too, after which we had coffee at a table in the shade. Meanwhile Flora and René ran the 5 km Park Run at Mundy Park. Flora’s time was 43:25.
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May 22
On Wednesday evening, we were again blessed with good weather, this time almost-summer sunny weather, as Kevin, Hazra, Rod, Liane, Flora, Glenn, Brenda, Sandy, Brigitte, and Larry walked on Cameron, Beaverbrook, the Stoney Creek trail to North Road, and returned the same way. Our distance was 5.5 km and our time was 65 minutes.
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May 20
On Monday evening, despite the rain both before and after our walk, we were blessed with an interlude where it did not rain during our walk! René, Kevin, Hazra, Rod, Liane, Flora, Debra and her dog Chase, Glenn, Brenda, and Larry went along to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track, then up to Cardson, to Horne, Government, Eastlake trail, Eastlake Park, Cameron, Erickson, Bartlett, and back to the mall. Our distance was 5 km and our time was a speedy 45 minutes. We didn’t want to get caught in any rain.
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May 18
On Saturday morning Kevin, Edie, Liane, Hazra, Rod, Flora, Larry, Len and Miriam with Jax, and Alex and Angela met at Flora and Ross’s house and walked mostly around the perimeter trail at Mundy Park in Coquitlam. Although it rained throughout our walk, the tree canopy of the park helped quite a bit to reduce the rain’s impact on us and the trail. We walked about 6 km in a time of about 1h15. Flora, Alex, and Angela walked a slightly shorter distance.
Afterwards, the group celebrated Edie’s birthday with coffee and cake at Flora and Ross’s house. it was a great way to brighten everyone’s spirits! (Photos of the gathering have already been distributed – thank you Flora and Len.) Thank you Flora and Ross for hosting the gang!
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May 16
On Wednesday evening Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Edie, Liane, Brigitte, Rod, and Larry met at the mall and walked along Beaverbrook, crossed the Gaglardi overpass, went up Forest Grove and through the trails across to the Broadway gravel trail, then down Production Way to Eastlake, and back using Eastlake and Beaverbrook, Cameron and to the mall. Our distance was about 6 km and our time was about 1h15 minutes. Sunny weather too!
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May 13
On Monday evening it was another big turnout (fantastic!) as Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Edie, Liane, new recruit Brigitte, Hazra, Rod, Flora, Sandy, and Larry met at the mall and walked down to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track, then up to Cardston and down to Horne and Government to Eastlake trail, Eastlake Park to Cameron and back to the mall.
Our distance was about 4.5 km and our time about 50 minutes. It started out sunny but some clouds were moving in as we were finishing our walk.
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May 08
On Wednesday evening Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Edie, Liane, Hazra, Rod, Flora, and Larry met at the mall and walked down to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track, then up to Cardston and down to Horne and Government to Eastlake trail, up through Eastlake Park to Cameron and back to the mall.
Our distance was about 4.5 km and time about 55 minutes. Afterwards some of the group went for pizza at the mall.
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May 07
On Monday evening there was a large turnout (yay!) as Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Debra Colvin and her dog Chase, Edie, Liane, Hazra, Rod, Alex, Angela, and Larry met at the mall and walked down to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track (Alex did at least two laps), then up to Cardston and down to Halston and Government to Eastlake trail. Speedsters Liane, Hazra and Rod walked to Horne and then went down to Government. From Eastlake trail we went up through Eastlake Park to Cameron and back to the mall.
Our distance was about 4.5 km and time about 55 minutes. Alex jogged the route and added on a lap around Cameron Park to check the progress of the new rec centre – it’s still a big pit. Alex’s distance was 5.4 km and his time was 55:57.
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May the 4th Be With You
On Saturday morning Flora, René, Liane, Hazra, Rod, Larry, Edie and Ian from the Burke Mountain Naturalist group walked from Port Moody Rec Centre along the paved trail to Old Orchard Beach, Alderside about three quarters of the way to April Road – René and Flora jogged all the way to April Road at Ioco – then returned to the rec centre where Hazra and Rod stopped, their distance about 6 km and time just under 1 hour – and the rest of the group continued to Rocky Point park and the ice cream shop, had our ice cream (some new flavours!) and made our way back to the rec centre.
Our distance about 8.5 km and walk/run time about 1.5 hours. René and Flora’s distance was about 10 km. Another nice spring morning!
Jennel did her virtual run of the BMO Half Marathon a couple of weeks ago, and was awarded her medal at the run expo on Friday! She ran a total distance of 21.15 km in Coquitlam around the Town Centre Park, the library, the track, some intervals along the way to Bert Flinn Park and around her neighbourhood.
Her official time was 3h53:36. Congratulations Jennel!
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May 02
On Wednesday evening there was a large turnout (yay!) with Kevin, Sandy, Liane, Edie, Flora, Brenda, Glenn, Rod, Hazra, and Larry walking down Bartlett, the Lougheed underpass, Keswick Park for a lap around the track, along Cardston, down Horne to Government, the Eastlake trail, Eastlake Park, and up Cameron back to the mall, distance about 5.5 km and time about 1 hour.
It was a sunny, almost summer-like evening.
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