Clinics
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Marathon & Half Marathon
Wednesday, June 18 - Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Goal Race: Royal Victoria Marathon Oct 12
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Learn to Run 5k/10k
Tuesday, June 17 - Tuesday, October 7, 2025
Goal Races: Royal Victoria 5k/8k Oct 11/12
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RTR/Maintenance Runners
Wednesday, June 18 - Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Goal Races: Royal Victoria 5k/8k Oct 11/12
Our program includes
A complete training schedule from day 1 to race day, with a weekly breakdown consisting of self-directed “homework” runs, plus our twice weekly group runs. Our group runs take place on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Wednesday workouts focus on hills, speed and tempos. Saturday morning long runs will be run-leader led and focus on building distance and endurance.
Meeting Spots
There are four Wednesday Workout meeting options:
Downtown Early Morning 6:00 am (no RTR/M option)
Downtown Evening 5:30 pm (Dallas & Memorial)
Shelbourne Evening 6:00 pm (Frontrunners Shelbourne)
Westshore Evening 6:00 pm (Frontrunners Westshore)
The Wednesday evenings will meet from the various Frontrunners’ stores and from other locations as specified from week to week.
On Saturdays, we meet at 8:00 am in two groups: the Marathon runners meet together, and the Half Marathon and Return-to-Run/Maintenance runners meet together. The Saturday meeting locations vary week-to-week in the Greater Victoria region. We try to spread out our Saturday start locations throughout the region, acknowledging that we have runners from all over the community.
Details
RTR Option
This group supports runners who are returning to running after a break due to any number of reasons (injury, illness, children, etc.) and/or runners who just love to run and maintain their endurance fitness, but don’t want a long marathon/half marathon training run on Saturday. This option provides a structured, social group meeting within the Wednesday and Saturday workouts. This is an opportunity to build and maintain a strong running base.
The RTR group has its own training schedule that follows the structure of the marathon and half marathon training schedule with self-directed “homework” runs, plus our twice weekly group runs. At the Wednesday workouts, RTR runners have the option of running easy, doing a shorter workout, or completing the same workout as the marathon and half marathoners. For Saturday long runs the group will build from ~40 mins (~5 to 8 km) to ~75 mins (~10 to 12 km). These runs will be led by experienced run leaders and will offer paces between 6 min/km and 7:30 min/km.
Some RTR/M runners set a TC10K race goal while some participate in the Oak Bay Half Marathon Relay or 10k. Others have different fitness goals or races in mind. If your running goals change during the clinic, you can move into the half marathon group, or the Tuesday Learn to Run Clinic.
Marathon / Half / RTR Prerequisites
Marathon - Participants should feel comfortable running at a steady pace for at least 75 to 90 minutes and be running at least 4 times a week. You need to be able to sustain at least a 7:30 min/km pace on these runs. If you are unsure if you meet the requirements for this group, please contact Jonathan Foweraker at foweraker@shaw.ca.
Half - Participants should feel comfortable running at a steady pace for at least 40 to 50 minutes and be running at least 3 times a week. If you are unsure if you meet the requirements for this group, please contact Wendy Cohen at wenco55@gmail.com
RTR - Participants should feel comfortable running at a steady pace for at least 35 to 40 minutes and be running at least a couple of times a week. We will accommodate a number of paces, but you must be able to run 5 km in under 40 minutes at the start of the clinic. Runners not meeting the prerequisites are welcome to join the Learn To Run Clinic being offered by Frontrunners on Tuesday nights. If you are unsure if you meet the requirements for the RTR group, please contact Wendy Cohen at wenco55@gmail.com
If you don’t meet these prerequisites, please check out our Learn to Run 5k and Learn to Run 10k programs (below)!
LEARN TO RUN 5K & 10K PROGRAM
The Learn to Run 5k (First Steps) & 10k (Next Steps) training clinic will begin on Tuesday, June 17, 2025 and build towards the Royal Victoria 8K and 5K. We work hard to support our runners through our volunteer run leaders, weekly email, webpage and private Facebook group. We provide a Frontrunners technical shirt, participant store discount, training tips, editorials, and speaker events (as allowed) to keep you motivated!
First Steps (5k) and Next Steps (10k) Runners: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - Tuesday October 7, 2025
Goal Race: Royal Victoria Marathon - 5k, Saturday, October 11, 2025
Royal Victoria Marathon - 8k, Sunday, October 12, 2025
Cost: $99.95 (includes technical shirt)
Race registrations are not included with clinic
Meeting Spots: Tuesday evenings at 6pm at Beacon Hill Park Petting Zoo
Pre-requisites:
5K: Able to do a moderate to fast walk without difficulty for 25 minutes
10K: Able to do a run / walk for 25 minutes
