Island Race Series

First race of 2022, fast Pioneer 8K, set to go Sunday, Jan. 9

© Copyright - 2021 - Athletics Illustrated Updated: 12/31/2021 11:53 AM The Prairie Inn Harriers Running Club is hosting the 43rd annual Pioneer 8K on...

Registration open for in-person racing at Island Race Series

Island Race Series The Vancouver Island Runners’ Association (VIRA) is pleased to announce that registration for the 2022 Frontrunners Vancouver Island Race Series is open....

Baker’s dozen of new course records at Port Alberni Paper Chase 15K

It was a day of course records Sunday in the Port Alberni Paper Chase 15K, the fifth race of the eight-race Vancouver Island Race...

Port Alberni Paper Chase 15K on tap for Sunday

In 1932, Henry Hall wrote the Teddy Bears Picnic. The song's lyric starts with the famous line that offers a sense of foreboding, "If...

Ironman athletes dominate 2020 Hatley Castle 8K

© Copyright - 2020 - Athletics Illustrated The cool-down discussion among the faster and more serious runners at the local 8K road race (that may...

Island Race Series: Next up the Hatley Castle 8K

The Vancouver Island Race Series includes eight road races that run every other week from January to April. The fourth race in the series...

Jonathan Behnke and Melissa Ross win Cedar 12K

  Media Release - Vancouver Island Race Series A sunny, cool day greeted 385 participants in the Cedar 12K today, the third race in the Vancouver Island...

Run the rarely contested 12K on Vancouver Island this Sunday

The Vancouver Island Race Series commences with an event that offers the opportunity to score a lifetime personal best in the rarely run 12K...

Cobble Hill 10K: Cam Levins’ 47-year-old coach Jim Finlayson winning races and breaking records

© Copyright - 2020 - Athletics Illustrated Records are made to be broken. On Sunday, at the Cobble Hill 10K road race that takes place...

Sean Chester and Ian Searle look to challenge Cobble Hill 10K

© Copyright - 2020 - Athletics Illustrated The Cobble Hill 10K is a give-or-take 450-participant race on southern Vancouver Island and is race #2 of...
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