Guelph Runners
Drawn Together
to Become Faster Runners

Six races, all at the bargain price of $25 per race ($30 for the Billy Taylor 15k).

 We specialize in good well-run races, accurately measured and timed.  The courses are well marshaled and marked.  For testimonials click here.  

All of our races are friendly small local races.  You can pick up your race kit, or register for the race at the start line, (at least half an hour ahead of the start time).   Our sponsors are local businesses, our volunteers are mostly local runners, some of them Canada's best elite runners.  We try to keep things moving, so that you can pick up your race kit on race day, run the race, enjoy some race food, review the results all in the space of two to three hours and get on with your day.

We do not offer a free tshirt with each entry in order to keep costs down.  We will be offering a series tech t-shirt at cost ($7). We do have a good collection of age group merchandise prizes (sometimes one for every two runners).

The races range in distance from 5k to 15 k. 

The Billy Taylor 5k has one of the flattest fastest courses around. 

Guelph Lake has a beautiful but rolling 5 and 10k. 

The Fergus 10k last year produced some of the fastest results in a local race in a long time. 

The Falling Leaves is two great cross country races, 4km and 7.5km in length. This is a great opportunity to try out cross country racing.  It will be held on the National Championship course at the University of Guelph.

The Guelph Thanksgiving Day Races will have five races, a 100m and 1k race for children, a one mile, a 3k and a 5k. This has in the past been both a big family event and has attracted some of the world's best runners.  Two of our winners have gone on to compete in the Olympics.

Wintercross 5k is one of the few true Cross Country races for adults and has been run the last two years on a hilly snow-covered course in the beautiful University of Guelph North Arboretum.  Due to last year's sellout, we will hold two races, Wintercross 5k and Women'scross 5k, 

The Guelph Athletics Society attempts to limit the environmental impact of our races.  See here for details

Let me not to the racing of local races

Admit impediments.  Running is not running

Which alters when it a free t-shirt finds

Or bends with the marketer to move.

The local race is a fixed-mark

That looks on big race budgets and is never shaken

It is to runners to leave their mark

Where their name is known and their time is taken

Advertising is money’s tool, though runners seek

To know where their final finish line must come;

Racers alter not their plans over months and weeks,

But are loyal to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

Local races will vanish, being unloved.