Nov. 12, 2024 to January 09, 2025
- Early registration dates
- Location
Entry: Online only
Race: Apsengrove School, 7660 Clark Drive, Lantzville
Post-race: Apsengrove School, 7660 Clark Drive, Lantzville
- Remember to register your teamMinimum of five team members
- Price
$35 early
$40 late
Bastion 12k
The Bastion 12k is Bastion Run Club’s premier road racing event in Nanaimo. It is the third leg of the Vancouver Island Race Series. You will run a fast out-and-back course, along the country roads of Cedar with lake and farm field views.
The start time is 11:00 AM. Race check-in opens at 9:00 AM. There is no early start and no day of race registration.
Beverages and food will be served after the race. Awards are presented to the top 10 runners in each five-year age group. All participants are eligible for door prizes.
Fast course
Run a new personal best in the 12K in Lantzville!
Great post-race food
Post-race awards, draw prizes, and tons of food are available after the race.
Well organized
From the timely start at 11:00 AM sharp, route marshals, flaggers and volunteers, to all the volunteers at the post-race celebration — a lot goes on and you are invited.
Pre-race check-in opens | NO EARLY START | Race start (main) | Post-race event start | Finish |
9:00 AM | 11:00 AM | 1:00 PM | 2:30 PM (Est) | |
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Building on the great succes off 2024 for 2025
The Bastion Running Club welcomes all runners back to the popular Bastion 12K near Nanaimo.
This well-organized and fast 12K event is a must-do, for those wanting to earn personal bests to add to the more typical lists of events like the 5K, 10k and half-marathon.
Check out our new race course!
In 2025 the Bastion 12K is moving to a new location in Lantzville. It’s more elevation over the 12k than you’re used to with our past location, but here’s the good news…since it’s a new course, anything you run is a PR!
Bastion Run Club
The Bastion Run Club, since 1981, continues strong and one of their contributions to the Vancouver Island running community is this fantastic 12K race.
History
Membership
- 10% off clothing and shoes at Running Room, Nanaimo
- 10% off clothing and shoes at Frontrunners, Nanaimo
- 10% off passes at OmTown Yoga
- FREE fall/winter running clinic to prepare for the Island Race Series
- New Year’s Day Run and Dip (with food and drink)
- AGM breakfast – attend and you get fed
- Saturday morning run group at Westwood Lake
- Wednesday morning run group at the Rotary Bowl Track
- Thursday evening run group at the Rotary Bowl Track
- Spring Fling Social
- Monthly newsletter (via email)
- Facebook page
- Club races
- Club logo apparel
- Club scholarship
Individual membership in the Bastion Run Club is $20
You can take out or renew your membership ONLINE, a convenient and secure site (processing fees included)
About Nanaimo and Lantzville
The City of Nanaimo is a classic West Coast community, offering natural beauty at every turn, and vast recreation potential. Nanaimo has one of the longest shorelines in Canada, and a forested mountain backdrop just outside downtown. Here, you can go from the wilderness to the city centre in just a few minutes, and spend more time in the places you want to be.
The District of Lantzville offers a perfect blend of rural living within a short-distance to city amenities, and is known for its temperate climate, family-friendly neighbourhoods, and panoramic ocean view.