This is a women's race in Vancouver built around supporting a breast cancer cause. The event grew from a personal story, and that origin still shows up on race day, most visibly in the woman the race honors, who runs it every year with her family and wears a bib you will recognize. The field is a mix of runners and walkers, and pace genuinely does not matter here.
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Going by the 2025 results, this is a decent-sized field, and the spread of finish times is wide, so this is a mostly recreational race rather than one for club runners.
Top 3: Kevin Mone (24:16) · Beckett Evans (28:34) · Landon Phillips (28:37)
Top 3: Sheena Banks (42:10) · Melissa Federspiel (45:04) · Christopher Appleby (46:57)
Top 3: Chelsea McMullen (1:27:21) · Amy VanTassel (1:30:15) · Jessy Sanchez (1:30:57)
The Girlfriends Run has been held every year since at least 2022. That is as far back as RunSignup's records for this race go, so it may well be older.
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How we calculate these stats: RunSesh calculates these figures from the most recent published results of past editions, sourced from RunSignup. We show aggregates only: field size, winning and median times, and the cutoff. We never publish individual finisher tables. Last updated Nov 12, 2026.
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Almost certainly not. Half the 4 Miles field finished slower than 1:12:45, and the last recorded finisher came in around 2:04:29, so there is a long tail of runners behind the middle of the pack. Most fields are far slower than people expect.
With 913 finishers there are runners at every pace, so you are never out on your own. There is no qualifying time, and the finish-time spread above shows how varied the field really is. If it is your first 4 Miles, that spread matters more than the winner's time.
The 4 Miles winner ran 24:16 while the median finisher took 1:12:45. That spread points to a broad, mostly recreational field rather than a race dominated by club runners.
Join a local run club. Vancouver Run, Grub and Chug Club and others in Vancouver welcome runners of all paces, and a weekly group run is the most reliable way to hold a training block together.
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