Victoria and Cumberland

There wasn't any parking at the hotel in Victoria, so I had to park on the street at a meter which means the meter has to be filled every hour and a half. In other words, I have an hour and a half to run.

I tried to do the same thing I did in Nanaimo: go to the Running Room, get a great route, and go out on a big run. The guy at the Running Room, totally ignored me so after 2 minutes I got pissed off and left. I found a map of Vic and planned out the route.

I started down Government to the water and carried along their seawall. Unfortunately their seawall goes along the water and reverts back up to the road then back to the water, etc. and it gets a bit annoying. So I got all the way around to "the blue bridge" and at this point, I started thinking about my parking. I'd probably been out for an hour or maybe more already and I'd be risking it if I went out and over this bridge, so I doubled back to the car to check it. 25 minutes left. Hmm.....can't go back to the bridge. So I went up to Beacon Hill Park (past South Park Elementary....nice) and finished the last 20 minutes there.

I ran from Cumberland to Courtenay and back yesterday. Easy to Courtenay and REALLY intense and uphill coming back. OK out of batteries now.