If you were out in the snowstorm or shoveled snow this
weekend, you probably couldn’t imagine that summer will ever return to Toronto,
but I have proof that it will. More on
that soon.
After grey and snowy weather on Thursday and Friday it was
quite a welcome sight on Saturday morning to wake up to a clear blue sky. It would almost make you want to get outside
and walk. Well some of us (Mary G, Barb DL
and Phyllis) were out there, at 7:30 am to walk in the nicely plowed cemetery.
Not….
After we found alternate places to park we set out around
the periphery of the cemetery, hoping that by the time we walked around to the
Mt Pleasant side, the gates would have opened. Not….
We continued our trek back to the main gates to meet the
other walkers. Along the way we met up
with Sherry. By 8:30am we met up with Ann-Louise, Diane, Sue S., Martha and
Linda (our newest walker) and checked to see if the Yonge St. gates were open.
Not…
So, we led the whole gang on our new periphery route,
checking out gates and not being surprised that they were still locked.
Resigned to our fate of trudging through snow piles and some plowed/shoveled
sections, we set out ambitiously to Bayview Ave. Along the way, we chuckled at the two
energetic runners who had scaled the fence to get into the cemetery; they were
obviously younger than we were, and oblivious to the fact that they were actually
trespassing!
On our return via Merton St to where we started, we joked
that according to Murphy’s Law, the gate will likely be open, and low and
behold, it was! Sue, Mary and I couldn’t resist walking once around the
cemetery, and we were rewarded with a snowy blanket covering all the grass, and
beautifully plowed roads.
While I did not walk my full 24k, I followed the winter
walking rule of walking safely rather than worrying about speed - walking for the
time I would have done normally, rather than worrying about covering the distance.
Summer…yes, it will come.
I know it because I received an email from the Midsummer Nights Run
folks, who said that the race registration is now open. If you are planning to
be in town on August 17th, sign up now. The rate goes up on March 31st.
We always have a good number participating in both the walk and the dinner to
follow. If we ask nicely, Rorie might even invite us to her pool the next day,
as she so graciously has done in the past few years.
