Canada·2026

Victoria

Victoria's running scene centres on the Oak Bay Half-Marathon and the CFB Esquimalt Navy Run, both hugging the waterfront with minimal elevation gain—the city sits sea-level on Vancouver Island with gentle terrain through parks and along the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Cyclists face the opposite problem: the island rises steeply inland, making local crits like the Royal Bay Crit quick and sharp, while Hesjedal's Tour de Victoria (155km) ventures into the Cowichan Valley south of the city for sustained climbing and rolling farmland roads.