Day 40 June 15, 2011 Beaumont QC to Quebec City 51km
15 Jun
New friends to run with!
We had no food for breakfast when we woke up so we had to drive to the local grocery store to pick up some food. Today is June 15th, the chocolate milk we bought expired on June 4th. We wouldn’t discover this until later.
I had no running shorts left so I was stuck wearing a pair of rugby shorts, which meant I had no pocket to listen to my iPod. It was already super hot when I started running even though it was only 8:30am.
I began running along route 132 and after 5km I saw two people in yellow jerseys waving at me. They were the parents of a friend of mine from Winnipeg, Sara Theberge. Her dad Jean-Pierre, mum Marie, and her brother Gabriel had shown up. Jean-Pierre and Marie had come to run with me. Marie ran for 5km and Jean-Pierre ran for 10km showing me all the sights as we ran towards Quebec City. The pace was nice and fast too.
When I tried to have some of the chocolate milk after 30km it came out almost clear. Liquid on top, solid on the bottom, and the smell was incredible!
We had lunch in an empty drive in movie theatre lot. We finally figured out how to turn the air conditioning on which was nice because it was 27 degrees out and there was no shade.
The last 20km took forever. It was hot, I was tired, and my pace was slow. I frequently had to come to the RV to get water to drink and pour over my head. Despite all the SPF 60 sunscreen I repeatedly put on, my face was getting pretty red. Mike described the end of my run as though I was a puppet whose puppet master had gotten lazy and was just jerking me along the road.
We drove into Quebec, parked our RV and took a cab to an Irish pub that was showing the game in ENGLISH!!! I was actually going to be able to watch game 7 on CBC instead of RDS! Paul Manuel, a friend of mine from Winnipeg showed up halfway through the game. Paul is with us for about a week to help drive. We met some other Canucks fans in the bar including Brooke, Laura, and Meghan. Brooke had just done the Ride to Conquer Cancer from Toronto to Niagara Falls and the whole thing had raised $17.5 million according to her. Amazing! We told them about the run and they all made a donation and offered to help us find laundry as we passed by Kelowna.
The Canucks didn’t exactly cover themselves in glory, and apparently neither did Vancouver with the ensuing riot.
We took a cab back to the Holt Renfrew parking lot next to Laval University, our home for the night.
Tomorrow I get a chance to rest my legs!
