Next door is an empty, perfectly manicured soccer field. Across the street, a single archer slings arrows at a target on a range. Down a nearby dirt road, trees on the edge of a thick forest guarding Burnaby Lake are still damp from the morning dew and add a piney smell to the crisp fresh air.
It’s a postcard everywhere you look, part of the reason why the Toronto Raptors choose to have their training camp here in British Columbia, a little more than eight miles east of Vancouver’s coast.
But behind the guarded doors inside a modern fitness center, there’s no serenity.