C'est la Vie Part 1 by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Run #1C'est la Vie Part 1 by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

Run #2C'est la Vie Numero Deux by temporallobe at Garmin Connect - Details

·        Today’s weather was 24 Celsius (75 Fahrenheit) slightly cloudy and a little humid

·        Today's run distance was 38.75kl [-6kl of driving is 32.75] (20.3499 miles)

·        Run distance was 6.88kl (4.275 miles)

·        Total run distance for the day 39.63kl (24.6429 miles)

·        Total run distance to date is 2292.33 kl or (1424.7579 miles)

·        Song of the day: “Stuff is Messed Up” The Offspring

Where to start? Well I guess at the beginning. My left leg was feeling better after some serious hours spent stretching and a robaxoset and a night with no muscle seizing. The day started off good. We have a good routine in the morning. We are very efficient. Well Mellissa is; I just get up, eat and run.

We head out to run start and we are about an hour in and I hear the Melissa honk behind me. I see she has been pulled over. This surprises me as we were pulled over yesterday and stopped by a Quebec Officer. The female officer yesterday had no problem with us running on the shoulder of the highway. We have the right safety lights, we hug the side of the shoulder. The shoulder is also very wide. I mean a big rig can pull on the side and not block the traffic. So a CRV and a runner don’t take up much room. Yesterday the officer sent us on our way.

Today we were not as lucky. The male officer advised us that we cannot be on the shoulder. We advised him we had asked for permission but Quebec Highway’s department never responded to letters, email, or phone calls. He was not interested and directed us off the highway.

So we drove to a different road that is a little out of the way, and continued on. The only problem with this alternate route is it’s a two lane road with very narrow shoulder if any shoulder at all. So at times I am actually running on the road itself while the SRV takes up about ½ of the lane. This forces a stream of cars to pile up behind us, or when they are not that patient, shoot by us into the oncoming traffic. However it was a much more scenic route and we had some great responses from the citizens of Quebec.

So tomorrow we will continue along route 132!

We will also be picking up Mandy to join us for a couple of months tomorrow night. That makes me very happy. I am sure Melissa is looking for someone else to distract from talking to her as well. A month in a motorhome with me would get on anyone’s nerves!