tuesday morning I ran my usual loop of going to Blaine's crossing and back  and made a side trip going through Gourley jane park and back to the road to head towards Gait rd and the hill , Gourley park goes towards the water and then a gradual climb back to chemainus rd. This  warms you up for Gaits road which also has a mean hill, running through stocking park was easy going,  Although you go a bit faster on the trail seeing its relative flat this takes care of the easy part,At night when Gail went for her spin classes I decided to run to Ladysmith, instead of doing the Gym workout , running up the lagoon hill took some doing and it had me breathing deep to get the oxygen, on the level stretch of road I ended up going a bit faster, And could feel that I had already done a run not to long ago, coming to cornation sg I ran along the r.r and under the hwy by the overpass to come out at holland creek trail running along the creek and seeing how far up the stairs I could run , I game close by some of them. The easier once I could manage So when I ran into  Dolly and Robin on the trail It took a while before I had my breath back, Running up seven different set of stairs kind of gets you out of breath and then pushing yourself a bit to keep going  , coming to menzies road I left the trail to go to the community centre to run around the track a couple of times then walked a bit too cool down,Thursday morning I ran into Chris ,Heather , Dolly and Pauline and Bala  the Saltair running group that runs every tuesday and Thurs mornings . We all ended up at Pauline and Balas house for coffee and goodies Tomorrow its back to picking grapes so hears to that sunshine so we can stay dry.