For Runners & Walkers of All Ages
For Runners & Walkers of All Ages
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January 23 No details on Wednesday’s walk but Edie, Brenda, Glenn, Liane, Kevin, Sandy, and Flora walked from Lougheed Mall. From Jennel: On Monday Jennel ran/walked 11 km up Forest Parkway and around the corner making her way back on David and all the way to Johnson Road and back. She had her dogs with her for part of the way then dropped them off to get more of a run in. The plan is …
December 27 On Saturday Len, Miriam, Jax, Liane, Edie, Flora and I met at 9:15 am at Queens Park. We started later so we could go for ice cream when they opened. We walked over to Tipperary Park to check out the Christmas lights. Then we walked the neighbourhood and ended up at Rocky Point Ice Cream were Alex joined us after his park run. The scoops at this location are always larger then the …
November 28 On Wednesday evening some Cruisers were out to walk – Hazra, Rod, Liane, and Flora and possibly others, I do not have full details – but it was a nice evening for a walk, and there was a reported sighting of an owl with a large wing span. The walk route was from the mall along Eastlake to Underhill, and return the same way. Thanks Flora for the report! Larrytheyounger November 26 On …
October 31 Thanks to Kevin for providing the writeup for Wednesday’s walk: Kevin, Rod, Hazra, Glenn, Brenda, and Alex showed up. Alex and Kevin walked Erickson, Cameron, Eastlake Dog Park to Production Way. The others also walked to Production but did “Kevin & Alex” turns a number of times. It was a beautiful fall night with a very bright moonlight. After walking back to the mall parking lot Alex gave us apples he had picked. …
September 29 On Saturday morning Hazra, Rod and Larry met at the Burnaby Mountain golf course, and although the weather was grim earlier in the morning, by the time we started out on our walk the rain had lessened to a drizzle, then stopped, so most of our walk was without rain, as we walked through Woodbrook, Augusta, Kitchener to Duthie, the urban trail to Kensington shopping centre, then back the same way, stopped into …
August 30 On Saturday morning Liane, Flora, Larry, Kevin, Edie, and Shiraz met at Queen’s Park in New West and Shiraz took the lead in guiding us over and giving us a tour of the new swimming pool complex that replaced the old Canada Games pool, across the street from the park. Quite an impressive facility, with six pools of various sizes and uses, ranging from family pools to full size training pools, and plenty …
July 30 On Monday evening Liane, Brigitte, Rod, Hazra, Kevin, Alex, and Larry walked from the mall along the sidewalk through the apartment blocks parallel to Lougheed Hwy, Bell Ave., Noel, and into the shade of the Stoney Creek trail to North Road, and returned along Beaverbrook and Cameron. Our distance about 6.5 km and our time about 1h15. Alex jogged most of the way and continued up North Road to Chapman before rejoining us …
June 29 On Saturday morning Edie, Kevin, Liane, Len and Miriam with Jax, Rod, Hazra, and Larry met at the Centennial Park parking lot on Burnaby Mountain and walked on the trail that leads to University Boulevard and on to SFU, and into the campus along the main mall, the academic quadrangle, viewed the shops and condos along HIgh Road, the condos on University Crescent, where the boulevards were nicely treed, which was nice to …
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 …
April 30 On Monday evening Kevin, Brenda, Glenn, Debra Colvin and her dog, and Larry walked from the mall down Bartlett Court, the Lougheed underpass to Keswick Park, did a lap around the track, then went along Cardston and Halston, Government, the Eastlake trail, up through Eastlake Park, Cameron, and back to the mall. Not a bad evening, cloudy but otherwise pleasant. Our distance was about 5.5 km and time was just under 1 hour. …