With the impending apartment move coming up I realised that I needed to obtain a bed. I guess one option is to move in and just sleep on my new Thermarest but as comfy as it is I don't think it is a practical long term solution.
I figured a place called "SleepCountry" should be able to help me. I was greeted by a rather slimy salesman who proceeded to get me to lie down on a bunch of beds. It was all pretty weird but you gotta try em out! He was relatively helpful and helped me narrow it down to a couple of beds. I think I will buy a memory foam guy, they seemed pretty comfy. Sleepcountry didn't have any bed frames (only box bases) and due to my new room being excessively small I thought it might be handy if I can chuck a couple of things under it. So I went to have my first IKEA experience. It was a good start with people picketing outside. Something about IKEA treating workers like crap. I can't imagine that. I think I found something that would support a mattress OK and got the hell out.
In the evening I went bowling with a few people I run with. Leike, Ryan, Matt and myself threw a few balls down an alley and managed to knock some shit over. I didn't do horrendously and managed to come 2nd in both the matches we played. The 3rd and 4th placers were pretty gutted. After bowling we met up with another couple of runners, Andy and Dave and went to have a couple of tasty brews at a place on commercial drive called St Augustines and ate a shit tonne of chips, pizza and nachos.
On Sunday it was a cracker day but I hadn't planned anything. I battled with my inner extrovert and managed to convince myself that a trail run around Diez Vistas was a good idea. Turns out it was. It was a pretty short 45min drive out to Buntzen lake. I found the trail to be marked pretty well and headed on up the hill for a bit of a 400m slog. Once I was on the ridge the running was good. Pretty rootey and rocky so made sure that I twisted my ankles about a billion times. Character building for my ankles I think. Here are the 10 Vistas (The number is in the bottom corner):
As you can see some of them should really be called "vistas" now. There definitely needs to be some logging in the area to restore some of the Vistas. The rest of the run down the lake was pretty nice and got a nice pic of Buntzen Lake:
All up it was about 15km and took me a pretty slow 2.5 hours but I blame the all the photo opportunities for the tardiness.
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