For Runners & Walkers of All Ages
For Runners & Walkers of All Ages
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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. …
March 30 On Saturday morning Kevin, Liane, Larry, Len and Miriam with Jax, and Edie met at the Port Moody Rec Centre and walked on the Rocky Point park trail to Old Orchard Park and continued to Alderside. Edie, Kevin, Larry, Len and Jax turned back about halfway along Alderside and walked to Rocky Point park and the ice cream shop, and were soon joined by Liane and Miriam, who had walked on Alderside to …
Feb 28 On Wednesday evening Kevin, Edie, Rod, Hazra, Liane, René, Glenn, Brenda, and Larry walked along Cameron and Beaverbrook. Liane and Brenda walked on Eastlake to Underhill and returned, their distance about 6 km and time about 1h05; René, Rod, Hazra, Kevin, Glenn, Edie, and Larry walked past the Stoney Creek school and across the Gaglardi overpass, where Edie, Larry, and Hazra turned back. their distance about 4 km and time just under 1 …
January 30 On Wednesday evening Glenn, Brenda, Hazra, Sandy, Kevin, René, Liane, Edie, Flora and Larry walked from the mall along Cameron, through Eastlake Park, and along Eastlake. Kevin and Hazra walked to Production Way, and Larry and Edie walked to just past the Gaglardi underpass, and all returned the same way, their distance about 5 km (a bit less for Edie and Larry) and time about 1h10. Brenda, Liane, Sandy, Flora, René and Glenn …
December 31 On Saturday morning, despite the rain, Flora did her 14th Park Run 5 km at Mundy Park in a time of 43:06 in slippery and wet conditions. Trees were no protection from the deluge of rain this time! Kudos to Flora for persevering in the miserable weather! On Saturday afternoon Flora, Larry, and Edie did a 3 km walk along Greystone and the golf course, taking advantage of the surprise sunny weather. On …
November 29 On Wednesday evening the Cruisers walked a couple of laps around Lafarge Lake and viewed the Christmas light display which was superb as usual! Larry, Edie, Liane, Brenda, Glenn, Hazra, Rod, Kevin, Eoin and Laura enjoyed the pleasant weather – no rain and not too cold – and it wasn’t overly crowded either. We walked about 3 km in a time of about 1h15. Flora reported that she also was there but unfortunately …