Cambie Ghost Run 10k

When Halloween falls on a Wednesday, naturally we at the Cambie Running Room want to dress up and celebrate with a Halloween-themed 10k run before eating all of Alex’s candy. Old school pixel art flows freely from Vancouver’s street grid, so what better way to trick or treat your way through ten kilometres than to run in the shape of a Pac Man ghost?

When it’s not just me running these things solo, I aim for safety so I drew the route to minimize major road crossings, keeping the ghost between Cambie and Main, and between 2nd and 16th Avenues with only two crossings each of Broadway and 12th Avenue on proper, signalled crosswalks. Fewer major road crossings should lessen potential wait times at lights too. To limit crossings of Broadway, the route draws the top of the eyes north of Broadway to the crosswalk at Yukon first and then completes the bottom half of the eyes back to Main Street.

The irises of the ghost’s eyes can be modified by changing where you run your 1-block by 2-block loops: make your ghost look sideways rather than slightly upward toward the Cambie Running Room by looping between 7th Ave and Broadway; look east rather than west by aligning the iris loops along Columbia and Quebec rather than Yukon and Manitoba; or do a combination to make the ghost cross-eyed; or do the opposite for that super scary Marty Feldman look.

Gotta get back home to hand out candy ASAP or find the 10k route confusing? Skip the eyes and run the lower fringe zig-zag between 16th and 15th Avenues instead for the 5k Ghost Run.

START on east side of Cambie at 7th — NORTH on Cambie — RIGHT on 5th Ave — LEFT on Yukon St — RIGHT on 4th Ave — LEFT on Alberta St — RIGHT on 3rd Ave — RIGHT on Ontario St — LEFT on 4th — RIGHT on Quebec St — LEFT on 5th — RIGHT on Main St — RIGHT on Broadway — RIGHT on Quebec — LEFT on 6th Ave — LEFT on Manitoba St — LEFT on 8th Ave — LEFT on Ontario — LEFT on 6th — LEFT on Manitoba — RIGHT on Broadway — RIGHT on Columbia St — LEFT on 6th Ave — LEFT on Yukon — LEFT on 8th Ave — LEFT on Alberta — LEFT on 6th — LEFT on Yukon — LEFT on 10th Ave — LEFT on Columbia — RIGHT on Broadway — RIGHT on Manitoba — LEFT on 10th — LEFT ON Quebec — RIGHT on Broadway — RIGHT on Main — RIGHT on 16th Ave — RIGHT on Quebec — LEFT on 14th Ave — LEFT on Ontario — RIGHT on 16th — RIGHT on path through park and parking lot to Manitoba — LEFT on 14th Ave — LEFT on Columbia — RIGHT on 16th — RIGHT on Alberta — LEFT on 14th Ave — LEFT on Yukon — RIGHT on 16th — RIGHT on Cambie back to 7th

Click here for a printable PDF of the Ghost Run map
Click here for the Ghost Run 10k route on RunGo