2025 Membership plans (includes GST)
1) 2025 Annual membership (January – December) = $270 (additional family members can join for $135)
2) 2025 Seasonal membership (Winter - January 11-April 5) = $110 (additional family members can join for $85)
3) 2025 BMO Half Marathon Program (Jan 11-May 4) = $165 (Winter and half of the Spring season) (family members can join for $115)
To register complete this form: https://form.jotform.com/243504042871047 and e-transfer your fee to [email protected]
2025 Winter Season
Our Winter season begins Saturday January 11 with a warm-up at 8:50am in the lacrosse box across the street from Hyde Creek Rec Centre. The Winter season prepares for the Up The Creek 5k/10k Run in Port Coquitlam on Saturday April 5th. This is also a great program to prepare for the Vancouver Sun Run on April 27th. The Winter season runs from Jan 11 - Apr 5 (13 weeks).
Here are the 5 Winter season programs that will begin January 11th.
How our club works:
1. Every Thursday, I send an email to all registered runners containing the plan for our Saturday run along with a message of interest. Register early as you may miss some important notes leading up to the start of our clinic.
2. Saturdays are our regular clinic days. Show up and go through a leader-led group warm up. Break into groups based on the program that you choose to join. A group leader explains the route and the program goal of the day. Each group will have 3-5 leaders to guide, assist, and motivate runners along the way.
3. After your Saturday session, you will need to get 2 training runs done before the next Saturday clinic session. A day of rest between sessions is best. On Tuesdays, we have a group that meets at Hyde Creek at 6:30pm to complete session #2 in the program. These are not leader-led sessions; however, they are an opportunity for you to get together with other runners in your group to get your training done. Be prepared to time your intervals. This is the designated Tuesday route: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/4858937770
4. We also have a group that meets on Thursdays at a local Craft Brewery for session #3. Thursdays are known as “Thirsty Thursday”. We meet at 6:30pm and our route is an out and back on the dyke. After our run, we encourage people to come inside for a social. This has proven quite popular and a lot of fun. The breweries offer a range of non-alcoholic drinks as well. This is a great opportunity for runners in all programs to mingle and have wonderful conversations. In fact, there are times that we almost solved all the world’s problems. lol
5. Changing groups - you can change program groups at any time throughout a season. If you ever struggle to keep up to a longer program, just drop to a different group whenever you feel like reducing some mileage. Our 5k walk/runners are known as "The Fun Group", so don't ever hesitate to join these fun runners!
6. Our runners have various goals: some runners just want to come out to organized runs and enjoy the social part of the club. Others may have goals of a half marathon PR and will be out tempo training and hill training to really push themselves. Whatever your goal might be, there is a program and pace group for you.
Get ready for day 1:
1) 2025 Annual membership (January – December) = $270 (additional family members can join for $135)
2) 2025 Seasonal membership (Winter - January 11-April 5) = $110 (additional family members can join for $85)
3) 2025 BMO Half Marathon Program (Jan 11-May 4) = $165 (Winter and half of the Spring season) (family members can join for $115)
To register complete this form: https://form.jotform.com/243504042871047 and e-transfer your fee to [email protected]
2025 Winter Season
Our Winter season begins Saturday January 11 with a warm-up at 8:50am in the lacrosse box across the street from Hyde Creek Rec Centre. The Winter season prepares for the Up The Creek 5k/10k Run in Port Coquitlam on Saturday April 5th. This is also a great program to prepare for the Vancouver Sun Run on April 27th. The Winter season runs from Jan 11 - Apr 5 (13 weeks).
Here are the 5 Winter season programs that will begin January 11th.
- Walk/run 5k (AKA Couch to 5k) – this is a beginner program for anyone wanting to start running. It starts with a 3-minute walk and a 1-minute run that repeats for 3k. Gradually, the walking decreases and the running increases until you get to a 5k run on April 5th. It is also good for runners returning from an injury or those who have been away for a while.
- Run 5k (NEW) - this program is for runners who simply want to keep running 4-5k. This will incorporate some occasional 1-minute walk breaks. The pace for this group will be beginner to intermediate pace.
- Walk/run 10k (intermediate) – this walk/run program starts with a 3-minute walk and a 1-minute run for 5k and either increases the running segments by 1 minute per week or decreases the walk segment until you get to a 1 min walk/9 min run interval.
- Run 10k program – this program will begin with a 5k run. It will continue with undulating mileage from week to week. This is for those who would like to have a casual running program or push themselves to improve their 10k times.
- BMO Half Marathon program - This run program begins with an 8k run and gradually progresses to a 20k run. This program prepares specifically for the 2025 BMO Vancouver Half Marathon.
How our club works:
1. Every Thursday, I send an email to all registered runners containing the plan for our Saturday run along with a message of interest. Register early as you may miss some important notes leading up to the start of our clinic.
2. Saturdays are our regular clinic days. Show up and go through a leader-led group warm up. Break into groups based on the program that you choose to join. A group leader explains the route and the program goal of the day. Each group will have 3-5 leaders to guide, assist, and motivate runners along the way.
3. After your Saturday session, you will need to get 2 training runs done before the next Saturday clinic session. A day of rest between sessions is best. On Tuesdays, we have a group that meets at Hyde Creek at 6:30pm to complete session #2 in the program. These are not leader-led sessions; however, they are an opportunity for you to get together with other runners in your group to get your training done. Be prepared to time your intervals. This is the designated Tuesday route: https://www.mapmyrun.com/routes/view/4858937770
4. We also have a group that meets on Thursdays at a local Craft Brewery for session #3. Thursdays are known as “Thirsty Thursday”. We meet at 6:30pm and our route is an out and back on the dyke. After our run, we encourage people to come inside for a social. This has proven quite popular and a lot of fun. The breweries offer a range of non-alcoholic drinks as well. This is a great opportunity for runners in all programs to mingle and have wonderful conversations. In fact, there are times that we almost solved all the world’s problems. lol
5. Changing groups - you can change program groups at any time throughout a season. If you ever struggle to keep up to a longer program, just drop to a different group whenever you feel like reducing some mileage. Our 5k walk/runners are known as "The Fun Group", so don't ever hesitate to join these fun runners!
6. Our runners have various goals: some runners just want to come out to organized runs and enjoy the social part of the club. Others may have goals of a half marathon PR and will be out tempo training and hill training to really push themselves. Whatever your goal might be, there is a program and pace group for you.
Get ready for day 1:
- All registered members will receive an email on Thursday morning outlining the plan for Saturday. This email contains exact meeting location, timelines, each program’s route that they will be running, along with some important notes for the season.
- Please do not just show up on Saturday morning without having completed your health screen/waiver and payment.
- Arrive 8:45am and park on Laurier Ave or in the Hyde Creek parking lot.
- If you are new to the group, arrive 5 minutes earlier. When you arrive on site, look for the leader holding the sign with your group name on it. Introduce yourself when you arrive.
- We will begin the group warm up 8:50am, or shortly thereafter.
- After the warm-up, we will break into program groups for the day’s training instructions from your leaders.
- Pacing…at first go a little slower than you think you need to. There will be various pace groups in each program. Your leaders may ask the faster runners in front to loop back to keep the group from separating too far apart. We leave no one behind.
- There will always be a leader at the front of the group and a leader at the back of the group. No matter how slow you go, a leader at the back will be there to guide you.
- After your first training day, I will email all programs ONLY to registered runners, on Sunday January 12th.