Because it was a holiday and lighter traffic I chose to run along Eglinton, a 6 lane road with wide grassy boulevards to pick up the trail beside the Credit River where I expected to run alongside the river until Burnhamthorpe. To my surprise there is a steep ascent (30 m?) to the top of the valley in the middle of this route where you run along some side streets and then descend to the valley again underneath the Highway 403 bridge. Then, of course, there’s my usual steep ascent up to Burnhamthorpe. Though the route is somewhat shorter than my usual two valleys run it has twice as many arduous ascents regardless of whether you run it clockwise or anti-clockwise.