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Island Savings 5K
The marathon weekend's Saturday race starts and finishes at Willows Beach Park in Oak Bay at 9 a.m. on October 10. Five kilometres along the water, and free to come and cheer.
Saturday, October 10 at 9 a.m., starting and finishing at Willows Beach Park. Five kilometres is the distance most people can actually turn up and run, which is why this is the friendliest race of the Royal Victoria Marathon weekend and why the field skews toward families and first-timers.
Willows Beach is a good place to stand on an October morning whether or not anyone you know is running, and the start and finish are the same spot, so you can see the whole field twice without moving. The marathon, half, and 8K follow downtown on the Sunday.