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November 2017 Sunset view over Mundy Park taken by Flora November 1st: Rod and Larry turned out on Wednesday night, which was a bit cooler but still a nice night for a run, which they did, doing the Beaverbrook-Eastlake-Underhill route, then over the hill and back along Forest Grove.  Distance about 7 km, time for Larry about 47 minutes, for Rod 55 minutes (he ran most of the way and felt good!).   Bobtoc is at …

October 2017 Vancouver Lights at Night – Our Beautiful City October 4th:  Mary, her friend Jeannie, Edie with her canine April, Larry and Bobtoc met Wednesday at the Centre, Larry to run and the others to walk.  Larry’s route was up and over the Gaglardi pedestrian overpass, used Ashgrove Crescent for a change, back to Forest Grove Drive to Underhill, then reversed direction and ran back going east on Forest Grove Drive, the Beaverbrooks to …

September 2017 Great People in Glorious Vancouver September 2nd:  Alex, RA Edie, Larry, Rod, Susan  and Bobtoc by various Skytrains met at the Main Street and Terminal station on a beautiful weather-wise morning Saturday, the object being to walk the False Creek paths.  The six started by tackling first the path on the south side of False Creek.  They walked one hour, at which time Rod left the group, under the advice given to him …

Ah, the good life – doesn’t get any better than this! August 2nd: On Wednesday Flora, Larry and Bobtoc met at the Centre and walked the Stoney Creek trail route in the hope that the trees and stream may mitigate the effects of the smoke in the atmosphere.  The sun was a red-orange circle in the smoke-saturated sky. The trio walked to the gate at the North Road end and returned to the Centre, after …

July 2017 On Saturday morning, Canada Day, 13 Cruisers and friends met in Fort Langley to walk along the Fort to Fort trail.  Edie, Libby, Debra, Christina, John, Rachel, Flora, Susan, Larry, Alex, June, Anna and Darlene all enjoyed the beautiful weather, helped along by the trail being mostly shaded along the way, so conditions were perfect!  Lots of Canada red-and-white attire was seen everywhere.  The group all walked at least 12.4 km, with Libby, …

June 2017 June 3rd:  Alex, RA Edie with canine April, Flora (congratulations Flora for showing up at 7:56 am!}, Larry, Len with granddog Jax, Mary McNichol, Susan and Bobtoc met at the Burnaby Lake parking lot Saturday am on an overcast but dry morning.   At Len’s suggestion the group headed for Deer Lake via Kensington Ave south into the Burnaby Heritage area to Sperling Avenue, thence into the Deer Lake trail on the south side …

May 2017 Como Lake May 1st:  Monday evening saw Flora and Alex run along Stoney Creek trail, up North Road and into the Burnaby Mountain trails.  Also on Monday, Jennel ran 10.42 km very slowly down to Starbucks, then to Value Village, then hiked up the Coquitlam Crunch to home. On Tuesday morning Jennel & Heather walked 6 km along the Coquitlam River, with Heather’s dog Burrows along for the walk. Wednesday evening saw Rod, …

April 2017 At last, the cherry trees are starting to bloom…. Saturday April 1st:  On Saturday morning, we finished our 30 km run in a time of 2h 15m and finalized the road crew for our club’s Ironman participants this October in Kona….April Fool!  What actually happened was much less exciting than that – Rod, Larry, Flora, Susan, and Edie with canine April, walked Joe’s Trail, endured the drizzle and observed the signs of spring …

March 2017 Vancouver History Walk with Edie and Libby What happened to the Banana Land we used to live in??  So many layers…. Wednesday March 1st:  Eoin, Flora, Larry and Bobtoc turned out Wednesday on a threatening but +2C or so evening.  The foursome chose the FG Drive route backwards for a walk.  The weather for the most part was no rain except for the portion of the route starting near the Stoney Creek Elementary …

February 2017 Wednesday, February 1st:  Rod, Larry, Alex, Flora and Rachel walked along Eastlake, Underhill, along Forest Grove, crossed the Gaglardi overpass and back to Cameron Centre.  Distance 7 km, time about 90 minutes.  It seemed quite cold even though everyone was bundled up.  As the group returned to the Centre, René arrived to say hello to the group.  Larry’s ankle is healing well although he will be walking for awhile yet.    From Jennel: Thursday, just …