Archive for category Victoria
We are the queens of multi-tasking! A running visit to Victoria, BC.
Posted by Jacqueline Windh in British Columbia, Canada, fitness, lifestyle, Vancouver Island, Vancouver Island Spine Trail, Victoria on December 14, 2013
Who wants to sit around in some café drinking coffee and eating sweet stuff… when you can have a great visit and yack while running! That’s what Kathleen and I did in Victoria, BC, this week.
Kathleen and I only met this past June – she was one of the organizers (through VISTA, the Vancouver Island Spine Trail Association) of the trail run here for International Trails Day, which Dave and I helped out with. But we hit it off, both by email prior to the event, and on the day of the run. We agreed to Read the rest of this entry »
Elk Lake, Victoria: A new run with an old friend (who I’d never met)
Posted by Jacqueline Windh in British Columbia, Canada, Victoria on September 19, 2011
Arriving at Elk Lake... ready to roll!
Well this is exciting! I went out for a 25 km run with my Twitter buddy Lorne Daniel (@LorneDaniel) today!
I am down in Victoria for the weekend, visiting Fiona (who came on the Copper Mountain/Alberni Inlet run with Dave and me a few weeks ago). So I tweeted Lorne to let him know I was coming, and we set a running date for this morning.
What is cool about this is that Lorne and I had never met face-to-face. He is one of my best Twitter buddies. We’ve known one another for about a year and a half, and have found that Read the rest of this entry »
