The BC Endurance Community
Developing Sustainable and Enjoyable Lifelong Fitness Together
Our Mission
BC Endurance provides endurance training and education for recreational adult athletes of all ages, including a wide range of fitness and experience levels. Our programs are safe, fun, and proven effective. We use long distance running, jogging, and walking as a means to benchmark our yearly progress. We are committed to promoting the long-term health and finess benefits of sustainable exercise and sensible eating.
Our Members
BC Endurance accommodates athletes from a range of experience levels, but we specialize in training beginners of all abilities, from the slowest to the fastest.
Your current fitness and experience are only pertinent as an entry point. Our program goal is to graduate beginners as intermediates by mid-year, so they can become advanced athletes by the end of the program year.
Some BC Endurance athletes want to improve their racing performances. Others use occasional races as benchmarks on the way to lifelong health and fitness.
Our Founder
Brian Clarke began his coaching career as a high school track and cross country coach in 1971. Over the next seven years, he coached and taught social studies at his alma mater, Staint Louis High School in Honolulu.
In the late 1970s, distance running was booming in Hawai‘i. Clarke saw a market for his skills and decided to coach runners for a living. He created a marathon training program and asked a friend to promote it for him. They had seven paying athletes on the team in late 1979.
By the mid-1980s, Clarke had added a beginner triathlon training to his yearly program offerings. The tri training and a trail training (added in 1996) were staples until the Covid-19 pandemic hit in 2020. Meanwhile, BC’s annual enrollment had grown to more than 150 athletes.
Clarke is an organizer. His programs have evolved from year to year as new and better ways of training athletes became apparent. The current training and education program is an outgrowth of the constant innovations introduced during a 45-year career.
How We Operate
BC Endurance has three central pillars: Training, Education, and Community. Each pillar supports and amplifies our annual program for runners, joggers, and walkers.
Training. We train three times per week in diverse locations around Oahu. Our weeknight workouts build power and tempo, and our weekend morning workout builds endrance.
Education. We share our knowledge of adaptive training, sensible eating, and effective living through our educational courses, materials, and focused discussions on diverse topics.
Community. Our island-wide community is enhanced by a unique discussion medium that connects a workout facilitator with individual athletes and in-person groups, while they actually train.
Testimonials
I’ve been running marathons for decades, but what’s really remarkable is that after 10-15 years of just accepting injury after injury, I have been injury-free for the year-and-a-half since I’ve been training with Brian. Many other programs push people too hard, but he really emphasizes rest and recovery in your training.
I’ve learned so much from Brian’s training programs. I realized that even though I did the Great Aloha Run many times, I really didn’t know that much about running. I didn’t know how to train properly. Brian’s not about just getting to the finish line, he teaches about proper form, proper technique, proper mindset.
Brian wants us to understand the science behind training. It’s not just going out every day and running hard. Sometimes it might look a little counter-intuitive, but at the end of the day it leads to results that can be sustained over the long term. I’ve learned that it’s not about running fast, it’s about running right.
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