2025 race set for April 27
Ever since the late Jim Fixx’s 1977 bestseller, The Complete Book of Running first popularized what was then referred to as jogging, annual mass-participation running events have been a mainstay staple on city streets. But interest in traditional road racing waxes and wanes depending on what off-road events or other forms of physical activity are in vogue at the time.
“It shows that no matter what’s happening in the world, people want to enjoy community and movement.” While mass participation is the key component of road racing events, they are also a big draw for elite runners, and recent past winners of the Times Colonist 10K have included back-to-back 2017 and 2018 women’s champion Dayna Pidhoresky of Tecumseh, Ont., with Malindi Elmore of Kelowna second in 2019. Pidhoresky and Elmore both represented Canada in the marathon at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Elmore again in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The 2025 Times Colonist 10K will feature a start route from Menzies Street that will be new over the first four kilometres, heading toward Beacon Hill Park, and then back from Cook Street through downtown to the finish line in the legislative precinct.“We can’t share the route quite yet because we are just finalizing that.”
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