A running base

Since the house was built I've run almost every possible trail in and around Bluewater.  Five years earlier, in 2012, I returned to running after a couple decade pause. I had ran regularly through my twenties. Then children and career took a hold of my life. Or at least it left me thinking I had no space or time for running or other mecentric activities. 

After watching the British comedy, Run Fat Boy Run (2008), I half jokingly said out loud that I'd run a marathon by my 50th year. I'm not sure I believed it but the year I turned 50 I started to run again.

In the decade of my 50s I ran four marathons, fastest time was just under four hours. My first was the Victoria marathon in 2012 at just over four hours.

I continue to run, just not that fast anymore.  

The thing about running on Bowen Island is that aside from the roads, every route is a technical trail run with lots of elevation. I joke about doing a 'flat' run on Bowen that invariably clocks in a couple hundred metres of elevation.  The run out my front door is a 145m elevation gain over 1km.

I marked out a 'local loop' that's about 1km long with a 25m elevation gain.  It's an ephemeral loop though as it runs through an area being developed for housing in the near future.

The routes may change, my pace may slacken, but I look forward to a few more years of running.