Island Lake Classic 2024

10K Course - Approximate 10 km route, one loop around Island Lake mostly flat, double track trail with bridges and beautiful vistas.

5K Course - Approximate 5 km route is a challenging course with roller coaster single track, fast and flat double track, cardio challenging slopes, and forest views.

Open to children 10 years of age and UNDER. Parent must register child on race morning at kit pick up - no charge. Approximate 200m route - fast and flat course around the park. Parent can take pictures or run with their child. Begins at 8:40am

SWAG

Every finisher will receive our newly designed medal and sweet hat!

AWARDS

Overall 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers male/female in both events will be acknowledged atop our podium with a set of Icespikes for winter running!

A token of appreciation and a photo opp on the podium for age groupers in both events.

CUP-LESS

Unnecessary waste is something we are committed to eliminating at our events. We all need to do our part to keep the trails beautiful and pristine and to that end, we have eliminated disposable cups at the start/finish and aid stations. Thanks to our partner, Hydrapak, each runner will receive a SpeedCup at race kit pickup, designed to be used during and after the race!

WATER STATIONS

There will be 1 water station on the 5K course, approximately at the halfway mark and 2 water stations on the 10K course (at approx. 4K and 8.5K).

RACE EXPO

Be sure to visit our community partner booths before or after the race!

KIT PICKUP

Pre-Race Kit Pickup will be held on Sunday, September 1 from 10am to 3pm @ Cycling Elements in Orangeville - click here for address.

OR

Race Morning starting at 8:00am and up to 9:20am.

There will be NO race day registrations and NO refunds.

Live too far away? Schedule conflicts? FOMO? No problem! Sign up for our virtual event and we will send you a custom medal, bib and swag item so you can participate any day, anytime, anywhere! Virtual Run Packages will be mailed in late summer via Canada Post. Watch our virtual run of both distances on YouTube - see below!

30 Minute Treadmill Run of Island Lake Classic

60 Minute Treadmill Run of Island Lake Classic

* No refunds. If event is cancelled, all participants will be transferred to the 2024 Virtual Run option.

* No in ear headphones however bone conduction style is highly recommended - check out our partner, Shokz to pick up a pair!

* No pets or strollers allowed on course.

* Our race insurance does not allow for pets or strollers on course.

* No race day registrations.

Chip Timing by Enfield Timing

RESULTS

click here for Results of the 2023 event

click here for Results of the 2022 event

click here for Results of the 2021 event

click here for Results of the 2019 event

click here for Results of the 2018 event

click here for Results of the 2017 event

click here for Results of the 2016 event

click here for Results of the 2015 event

click here for Results of the 2014 event

Island Lake Conservation Area has been an amazing partner of the Island Lake Classic for over ten years. Their recent 25 year plan includes several new improvements to the park, one of which includes the Vicki Barron Trail Re-Route Project.

If you would like to help support the Park, you can make a donation with your registration and you can also ask your family/friends to support your run by sending them the donation link.

Here's a message from the Credit Valley Conservation Foundation:

To the Island Lake Classic Participants,

Thank you! Your incredible support has helped us get through another challenging pandemic year.

Your fundraising efforts through the Island Lake Classic raised $1170.00 in 2023!

Like many other charities, we continued to adapt our fundraising methods to COVID-19 realities. It was only through the profound generosity from donors like you, that critical environmental projects carried out by Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) continued throughout 2023.

This includes Building the Credit Valley Trail and its FIRST Indigenous Placemaking Site: The Crane Gathering Space.

The CVC Foundation is committed to raising $10 million dollars in support of the Credit Valley Trail (CVT) – the priority for our Land Securement efforts. When complete, the CVT will be a 100-kilometre continuous, connected, river valley trail stretching from the headwaters in Orangeville through Caledon, Halton Hills, Brampton, Mississauga right to the shores of Lake Ontario. We are already on the path to success! Since the 2017 approval of the CVT Strategy, we have raised $3.7 million from countless partners and donors like you and your organization.

And the trail is growing. Last year with your help, we broke ground on the first of seven Indigenous placemaking sites, the Crane Gathering Space, CVT’s northern trailhead located at Island Lake Conservation Area in Orangeville. The Crane Gathering Space will be a place for community building, teaching, ceremony and other events. Its completion will bring a dedicated space for Indigenous peoples to express their culture and language. It will deepen their ancestral connections and traditional understandings of the Credit River and surrounding valley lands while informing all visitors of that heritage.

As we reflect on 2023 and all that you helped us achieve, we remain inspired by your commitment to our local environment and hopeful for what the new year may bring. Thank you for helping shape the future and for investing in the shared natural legacy of our Credit River watershed.

The CVC Foundation

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Island Lake Classic is Sanctioned by Athletics Ontario.