| Week | Date | Workout | Structure | Phase |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | May 7 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | Aerobic build |
| 6 | May 14 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 7 | May 21 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 8 | May 28 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 9 | Jun 4 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 10 | Jun 11 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 11 | Jun 18 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 12 | Jun 25 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 13 | Jul 2 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 14 | Jul 9 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 15 | Jul 16 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 16 | Jul 23 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 17 | Jul 30 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | Aerobic build / Strength phase / Hill phase |
| 18 | Aug 6 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 19 | Aug 13 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 20 | Aug 20 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 21 | Aug 27 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | Anaerobic phase / maintaining aerobic build |
| 22 | Sep 3 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 23 | Sep 10 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | |
| 24 | Sep 17 | 90 minute tempo | 30 easy / 30 steady / 30 easy | |
| 25 | Sep 24 | Lactate Threshold (1:40) | 20 easy / 60 strong / 20 easy | Anaerobic phase / Marathon practise |
| 26 | Oct 1 | TBD | TBD |
Train
PIH offers several regular training sessions each week. Weekly training sessions occur:
- Saturday morning at Thetis Lake Park
- Tuesday after work at various locations
- Thursday mornings at various locations
The club also offers special non-race events throughout the year, such as Hound Hikes, Wilderness Runs, and Holiday Runs.
Visitors are welcome to attend a training session. Just drop by and let us know you're new!
Some Harrier club members also offer training sessions and personalized coaching.
- Improve your running with small group training. Perseverance Running offers a workout session every Thursday night at 5:30pm at various centrally located venues. Workouts are mostly either on road or trail, but also sometimes on track or stairs. Weeks typically alternate between flat and hill workouts. Sessions are around 1 hour long and are structured to accommodate all paces. The drop-in fee is $5. Workouts are sent out via email a day or two before. If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please contact Shane at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
- Threshold Thursdays (TT) – 2025 Schedule
- Summer of Malmo long run Sundays
- Run Victoria
5:15 pm Tuesdays – Weekly after-work interval workout using various local roads, parks, and trails. Every week is different and everyone is welcome. The faster runners will pick up slower runners on the final lap.
Meet at Cedar Hill Recreation Centre November through April, and at Mount Douglas, Beaver Lake or other locations May through September. Check the schedule for specific workouts.
8:00 am Saturdays – Saturday morning group trail runs take place every week throughout the year in Thetis Lake Park and Francis King Park. We meet at 8:00 am at the main Thetis Lake parking lot at the end of Six Mile Road from October through the end of April. For the warmer months of May through September we meet at the small parking area at Prior Lake on Highland Road. 2025 Update: like last year due to popular demand we will continue to meet at Prior Lake during October. Some may then drive to the end of Westoby Road to enjoy a different set of trails.
This is the classic Harriers weekly social run. All runners, dogs and walkers are welcome. You don't have to be a club member and there is no fee to participate. If you are unfamiliar with the park trails this is a great way to learn the network. We sort into groups as numbers and paces warrant. No one gets left behind.
9:00 am Thursday – at various locations around Greater Victoria.
The group was started by Maurice Tarrant and initially attracted only about half a dozen runners, mostly retired friends of Maurice. It blossomed to a consistent core group of about 30 runners and walkers before withering during Covid. It has since bounced back to about 25. With most in the their mid- to late-70's and some in their 80's they've graduated to mainly walking with only a few still running. Locations vary weekly and there is usually a gathering in a restaurant or other venue afterwards.
The Harriers Youth Team is a year-round training and racing group based in Victoria, focusing on both track and field and cross country running.
The Team has about 25 members ranging from grade 8 to third-year university. This includes youth who are just starting to run to those who are competing at the national and international level. We compete here on the Island, but increasingly we have to look to races on the Mainland, other provinces or the US to get competitive races.
Threshold Thursdays offer a weekly group session to aid building an aerobic base for mature athletes of all abilities looking to feel more comfortable running longer, stronger, with confidence. These structured 90-minute to two-hour runs use the Lochside regional trail north of McKenzie Ave. The quality middle portion is by time and effort, not distance or pace.
6 p.m. Thursdays – from March 27 to September 25, 2025 (27 weeks) meeting by Tripp Station Park, with a later 6:30 p.m. start during the weeks with longer sunlight.
Links to training plans, ideas and trail maps.
