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I love Stanley Park. I especially love Stanley Park when it’s quiet and not as crowded. Today it was absolutely beautiful. I started my run after breakfasting with Roy at Starbucks on Robson and Richie in downtown Vancouver. Ran through a SEA of people already out in the Olympic “village” and down to the park. The first few miles weren’t awesome because I had a scone. I knew while eating the scone that it would sit heavy on my tummy, but I wanted the scone. Dumb dumb dumb. Fortunately as predicted, by mile three I was fine. Mile four the run became effortless. I had no idea how many miles I was going to run. Plan was just to run around the seawall until I ran out of Seawall or came to the city. Roy was going to check out of our hotel and meet me coming the other way.
At about mile six I realized that I wasn’t entirely sure where to meet him since there are paths that criss cross the park, so made a few stops for phone calls. We finally coordinated our coordinates and met up at Second Beach Pool. Walked to two miles back to the downtown Robson Square area.
What a wonderful, crazy weekend. I hated to come home last night, although I missed my babies IMMENSELY!

Workout:

• Type: Run
• Date: 02/15/2010
• Time: 09:13:45
• Total Time: 1:29:57.00
• Calories: 783
• Distance: 8.08 miles
• Average Pace: 11:07.72/mile
• Max Pace: 3:40.64/mile
• Ascent: 1,278.56 ft
• Descent: 2,536.43 ft