Join us for Tempo Tuesday, in the streets of Guelph’s Old University neighbourhood. Meet at the Running Works at 6 pm. We’ll head out for a group run, with 8 km and 10 km route options. Please wear lights and a reflective vest.
A map of our regular tempo route in the city’s Old University neighbourhood is at the button below. We run on well-lit, quiet residential streets. We cross the busier Edinburgh Road four times, always at pedestrian-operated stop lights. (Never cross on a red light.)
What is tempo pace? It’s about 15-30 seconds slower than your 5K race pace. It’s comfortably hard — you can’t talk much, but it doesn’t feel like the all-out effort of a race either.
The run consists of a 1.5K warm-up, then three tempo sections of 2K, 3K, and 2K (we regroup at the traffic lights), followed by a 1.5K cool down, ending back at the store. That’s a total of 10K, and about an hour of your time. We recommend this route for experienced runners who can race a 5K in 18–25 minutes.
For newer runners or those who race a 5K in 26+ minutes, we’ll do the same route, but with a couple of shortcuts, which brings the total run to 8K.
Newcomers welcome! Feel free to join us for a few Tempo runs before registering for a yearly membership. Please introduce yourself when you arrive so we can match you with a pace group for company along the route.
If you come:
- Arrive a few minutes early and introduce yourself to a Victors leader (just ask who!)
- You should wear a reflective vest, plus lights front and back, when participating in our tempo runs.
- Run in single file whenever possible, and never more than two runners side-by-side.
- Always run on a sidewalk or the left side of the road.
- Never have runners on both sides of the street. Cross for a right-hand turn at a corner, not in advance.
- Never cross a road on a red light.