Runners cautioned about heat risks as BMO Vancouver Marathon approaches<\/p>\n
Published 11:22 am Saturday, May 2, 2026<\/p>\n
Health officials in Vancouver are encouraging runners participating in the BMO Vancouver Marathon on Sunday, May 3, to adjust their goals due to an \u201cunseasonably warm forecast.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough it\u2019s not expected to reach the threshold for a heat warning in the BC Heat Alert Response System, marathon participants may not be acclimatized to running in heat, which can lead to heat-related illness and injury,\u201d reads a bulletin from Vancouver Coastal Health on Saturday (May 2).<\/p>\n
Temperatures in Vancouver are expected to be around 25\u02daC by tomorrow afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Vancouver Coastal Health bulletin listed several recommendations, including that runners adjust their goals due to the hotter-than-expected weather, slow their planned pace, stay hydrated, avoid heavy layers, wear sunscreen, and apply ice or ice packs in a hat, shorts, or sports bra.<\/p>\n
The marathon and half-marathon start near Queen Elizabeth Park in Vancouver and finish in downtown Vancouver. The 8km starts in Stanley Park on Lagoon Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Runners cautioned about heat risks as BMO Vancouver Marathon approaches Published 11:22 am Saturday, May 2, 2026 Health…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,163792,87674],"class_list":["post-643673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-lower-mainland","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}