Day 49 June 24, 2011 Montreal to Lachute 51km
24 Jun
Again I get new people to run with!
We woke up early in the hotel and I used the shower for the last time. I got up at 5:15am but Lauren got up at 4:45 and walked to Tim Horton’s to pick up some breakfast for all of us. She’s awesome!
I taped my feet while Lauren and Mike took the scooter to go pick up the RV. My blisters are not bad at all today; the two days off have given them a chance to heal. I hope they stay that way.
We had a longer drive out to my start point along route 158 than normal. It started pouring rain on the drive out and only got heavier when I started running. I got about 5km into it before Alex, a friend of my brother’s from London School of Business and his friend Mo showed up to run with me.
Alex ran first and we talked about his experiences at LBS and what his plans were now that he’d graduated. Then they switched and Mo ran with me for a while. We talked mostly about the run and what it was like. The two of them had a wedding to go to so they left around 10am, both of them soaking wet!
It continued to lash rain all morning and my feet were soaked. I had to change my shirt because I wasn’t visible enough according to Lauren and Mike. So I put on an HBC jersey from 1999, which was fluorescent yellow. It was a little small but very bright. Lauren spent the morning cleaning the MCC because she thought it would be therapeutic, and because it’s pretty dirty.
By 30km my feet were starting to get a bit sore thanks to running in wet shoes, but otherwise I felt good after having 2 days off. I had to change my shoes and re-tape my feet a number of times during the day because it was so wet outside. I stuffed newspaper in the two pairs of shoes in the MCC to dry while I wore the third, and continued rotating.
Lauren made two of the best sandwiches I’ve had in a long time for lunch! Then I got back out and ran the last 20km. I am now listening to Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and so far it seems pretty interesting.
The day ended in Lachute, a small town seemingly in the middle of nowhere. There wasn’t much to the town, and we ended up sleeping in the back of a gas station parking lot.
Tomorrow I finish with Quebec and enter Ontario!
