The BC Endurance Community
A Diverse and Supportive Family Committed to Lifelong Health and Fitness
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 fitness 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, without illness or injury.
Your current fitness and experience ar only an entry point. 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 was a high school track star at St. Louis High School in Honolulu, before running with the nationally recognized University of Oregon track team under the legendary coach (and Nike co-founder) Bill Bowerman.
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 the first paid marathon training program in Honolulu 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 and BC’s annual enrollment grew to more than 150 athletes until the Covid Pandemic prompted Clarke to re-envision his program.
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 O’ahu. Our weeknight workouts build power and tempo, and our weekend morning workout builds endurance.
Education. We share our knowledge of adaptive training, sensible eating, and effective living through educational courses, materials, and focused discussions.
Community. Our island-wide community is fostered through regular social events, post-workout potlucks and coffee hours, and an exercise protocol that encourages ability groups to build enduring bonds by training, racing and growing together.
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.
You may walk and run your whole life, but just because you do it doesn’t mean you know how to do it. I don’t have a beach body but I have sustainability, mobility and balance. I’m building strength, I’m healing. Brian’s really good about teaching you to listen to your body while also paying attention to your limits.