Friday, February 02, 2007

Gaining Perspective

I feel great these days and I owe much of it to my daily power walk along Vancouver's Seawall. The official Seawall walk is a 9 km (5.4 mi) 0% grade pedestrian and cycle path around Vancouver's beautiful Stanley Park. Over time though the city has extended the walk and mandated that the new developments in False Creak include extensions to the Seawall. As such, start to finish, the walk is now nearly twice it's original length.

It's a wonderful way to experience nature in the heart of a large city. Five years or so ago the walk was expanded to allow separate paths for pedestrians and cyclists making it a stress free adventure for both modes of transportation.

Unfortunately the storms of this winter left $5 million in damage to Stanley Park alone including our much loved Seawall. It will be months for the walk to recover and years for the park itself.


The past week we've been under this much needed high pressure cell and have been treated to pure sunshine intermixed with the occasional attack by our resident Straight of Georgia fog monster.

Having become recently addicted to daily 45 minute - 5 km power walks I'm happy to hit the Seawall rain or shine. Actually if given the choice I'd take a rainy day over a sun filled one. Getting drenched and not having to manoeuvre around the more casual walkers is quite liberating.

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