Kids' Track and Field, Cross Country and Running in Fredericton: The Parent's Guide

The Lay of the Land: One Club, Two Rivers, No Track

Running is the one sport where the starting cost is a pair of shoes, and Fredericton is built for it. The trail network, the two big wooded parks, the flat riverside paths and a genuinely strong road-race culture mean a kid can be a runner here for years without ever joining anything. Organized track and field is a smaller world, and it is worth understanding its shape before you register for anything.

There is one youth track club in the city, the Fredericton reds Track and Field (lower-case "reds" is how the club writes it). If you go looking for the Fredericton Legion Track Club, which is what the City's community group directory still calls it, you have found the same organization. In 2020 the Legion club and the Saint John Track Club rebranded together as the Reds Track and Field Clubs, a regional partnership with the UNB varsity team that the Saint John club's history page describes as "one club family." The practical effect for you is that coaching, meets and even the summer camp lean heavily on UNB.

Now the part that surprises families arriving from Moncton, Saint John or anywhere in Ontario: Fredericton does not have an all-weather 400 m track. A group called the Fredericton Athletics Association lobbied city council about this years ago, telling CBC the existing facilities were "either too old, too short, or too unkempt," and the picture has not changed in the way that matters. Look at Athletics New Brunswick's 2025 results list: every sanctioned outdoor meet was at Canada Games Stadium in Saint John or the Stade Croix-Bleue Medavie in Moncton, and every indoor meet was at the Irving Oil Field House in Saint John or CEPS in Moncton. What Fredericton hosts is cross country: the FHS Invitational, the school regionals and provincials, the AUS invitational and the ANB Crown provincial championships all ran at Odell Park or Killarney Lake in 2025. So a track kid here trains at home and races an hour down the highway, and a cross country kid gets to race at home. Plan your gas budget accordingly.

For casual running, two city facilities matter. The indoor walking and running track at the Grant-Harvey Centre (north side, Knowledge Park) is free, open 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekends, and five laps make a kilometre. Odell Park on the south side and Killarney Lake on the north side are the family trail options, covered further down. UNB's Richard J. Currie Center has the city's only indoor running track, the Nancy Webster McFadyen Track, but it is a university facility with day passes at $12 and no posted youth pricing, so treat it as the club's world, not a drop-in.

The Fredericton reds: Programs, Ages, Seasons and What It Costs

The club's website was unreachable when we checked (an expired security certificate), so the freshest sources are its Facebook page, Instagram (@frederictonredstf) and the email [email protected]. The program structure below comes from the club's own registration information document, and it maps neatly onto ages.

• Novice (ages 5 to 10): a six-week, once-a-week introduction offered twice a year, in the fall and in the spring. This is the club's version of Athletics Canada's Run Jump Throw Wheel, the play-based grassroots program that teaches running, jumping, throwing and wheeling through games. It is the right first step for almost every child, and six weeks is a low-commitment way to find out whether "I like running" survives contact with drills.
• Intermediate (ages 10 to 13): two training sessions a week across two seasons: mid-September to April 1 (fall/winter) and April 1 to mid-August (spring/summer). This is where kids try every event group and start entering meets.
• Athlete (ages 14 to 35): three sessions a week on the same two seasons. High school athletes live here, and it is the group that feeds the Legion team and the provincial championships.
• Cross Country (ages 10 and up): a short, intense block from mid-September to the end of October, three sessions a week, timed to the school cross country season.
• Road Runner (14 and up): one session a week for kids and adults who just want to run, not jump or throw.
• Masters (35 and up): the parents' group, if you feel like paying it forward.

Cost. The last fees the club published publicly were on its Trackie page for the 2023 spring/summer season: $100 for Intermediate (born 2010 to 2013) and $125 for Athlete, plus a $57.50 pass-through for Athletics New Brunswick membership if your child did not already have one. The club had not posted 2026-27 fees anywhere we could read when we checked, so treat those as the floor rather than the price. For a sense of where the sister club sits, the Saint John Reds charged $225 per program plus Athletics Canada, ANB and insurance fees for its 2026 spring/summer season, with Run Jump Throw Wheel for ages 6 to 10 and Junior Development for 10 to 13 on Mondays and Thursdays from 5 to 6 p.m. Expect Fredericton to land somewhere between its old price and Saint John's current one, and confirm before you promise your kid anything.

Registration. Historically it ran through Trackie; the Saint John Reds have since moved to AthleticsReg, the platform Athletics New Brunswick uses for memberships, so do not be surprised if the Fredericton link points there too. The registration document is blunt that "every member of the Fredericton reds Track and Field has to be a member of ANB," which is the next section. Windows follow the seasons: watch for fall/winter registration in late August and September, and spring/summer registration in March. The 2023 summer deadline was July 28, which tells you the club will still take a kid mid-season if there is room.

Coaching. The club has no coach roster we could verify, but the Reds partnership means the UNB cross country and track coaches are the centre of gravity; the Fredericton Mile fundraiser, for instance, is organized by UNB's Stephen Andersen and Chris Belof. Youth groups are typically led by club coaches with NCCP certification (ANB runs Sport Coach and Club Coach courses every spring) and helped by varsity athletes. Ask at registration who coaches your child's group and which nights they train; that is also the moment to ask where, because the club's indoor home is on the UNB campus and its outdoor sessions move with the weather and field availability.

Age Groups Explained: U10 to U20 and the December 31 Rule

Track and field in Canada groups kids by birth year, not by grade and not by their age on the day of the race. Athletics Canada's technical manual defines U16 as athletes "14 and 15 years old as of December 31st in the year of competition," U18 as 16 and 17, and U20 as 18 and 19, and the provinces extend the same logic downward: U14 is 12 and 13, U12 is 10 and 11, U10 is 8 and 9. The year of competition is the calendar year, so a child born in December 2013 is U14 for all of 2027 even though they turn 14 only at the very end of it, and a child born in January 2013 is U16 for 2027 even though they spent most of the year as a 14-year-old competing against 15-year-olds. It feels unfair to the January kids and generous to the December kids; that is track.

For the 2027 season, then: U10 is born 2018 or 2019, U12 is 2016 or 2017, U14 is 2014 or 2015, U16 is 2012 or 2013, U18 is 2010 or 2011, U20 is 2008 or 2009. One honest caution: the birth years listed on Athletics New Brunswick's membership page when we checked looked a year behind the national rule (U16 was shown as born 2010 to 2011 under a "2026 membership" heading). Do not do the math yourself; enter the birthdate on AthleticsReg and let it place your child, then check the placement against the rule above.

Membership itself is the second fee every family pays, and it is the one that makes your child insured and eligible to enter meets. ANB's posted 2026 fees: U10 and U12 competitive, $35; U14, U16, U18 and U20, $90 through a club or $135 unattached. There is also a Recreation membership for U10 and U12 at $22 (not eligible for provincials), single-season options at $20 for U10 to U12 and $70 for U14 and up, a $15 Community Road and Trail membership for kids who only do road races, and a $10 temporary day membership. ANB announced on September 8, 2026 that 2027 memberships were open, but the fee page still showed 2026 numbers when we checked, so budget for a small increase. Membership runs on the calendar year, which means a kid who joins the club in September pays for the year that is about to end; the seasonal fall/winter option exists precisely for that.

What the age groups mean on the ground: U10 and U12 meets are Run Jump Throw affairs, short sprints, a 600 m or 800 m, long jump, ball throw, everyone gets a ribbon. U14 introduces real implements and hurdles at low heights. U16 is where the sport turns serious, with 80 m hurdles, a 3 kg or 4 kg shot and the first shot at the Legion national team. U18 and U20 are the high school and first-year university categories.

The Provincial Pathway: ANB Meets, Legion Nationals and the Canada Games

Athletics New Brunswick (Athlétisme Nouveau-Brunswick) is the provincial body, and its programs page lays the whole ladder out. Under 13 gets Run Jump Throw Wheel, a Run Jump Throw Series of low-key meets, the 12 Défis challenges and a Youth Cross Country Series. Ages 13 to 16 get the Royal Canadian Legion program, the Jeux de l'Acadie and school sport. Junior and above means the Canada Games and university athletics. ANB's own summary: "our Legion Team (ages 14 to 17), Canada Games Team (U24), and Jeux de la Francophonie Team (Senior)."

Meets. The indoor season opens in Saint John: the Saint John Schools RJT Challenge on November 26, 2026, the Red and Black Open on December 5, the SJ Reds Team Challenge on December 12, further RJT challenges on January 22 and March 16, 2027, and the AUS championships February 19 to 20, 2027, all at the Irving Oil Field House. In 2025 the calendar also had the NB Indoor and University Invitational at the end of January, the Atlantic Indoor Championships in late February and a Moncton open in early January. Outdoors starts in May with the ASEA Spring Opener and Codiac Achilles Open in Moncton and the Saint John Spring Meet, then the Hub City Classic and Stivos Cup in June, and the big one, the ANB Provincial Championships, which doubled as the Legion Nationals Trials and Canada Games Trials on July 6, 2025 at Canada Games Stadium in Saint John. Expect a similar early-July weekend in 2027; ANB had not posted the 2027 outdoor calendar when we checked. Meet entries go through Trackie, typically $10 to $20 per event, and the ANB calendar is the place to watch.

Legion nationals. The Legion National Youth Track and Field Championships are "Canada's only track and field championships for the under-16 and under-18 categories," and for a serious 14-to-17-year-old they are the goal. The 2026 edition was in Regina; the 2027 edition is also in Regina, August 6 to 8, with mandatory attendance August 4 to 10. Two routes in: selection to Team New Brunswick, or hitting the open entry standard on your own. ANB's 2024 selection document explains the team route: a maximum of 36 athletes, two per event, ranked by percentage off the standard using results from ANB-sanctioned outdoor meets between April 1 and July 14 plus the school provincials, and a $350 athlete fee (2024) that covers uniform, travel, meals and accommodation, with the Legion picking up the rest. The New Brunswick Command says it spends over $25,000 a year on the program. That is a remarkable deal for a national championship trip, and the reason the club still carries "Legion" in its old name.

Canada Games. Athletics is a summer sport, and the 2025 Summer Games in St. John's have just passed. The next ones are the 2029 Canada Summer Games in Moncton and Saint John, a home Games, which makes today's U14 and U16 athletes exactly the cohort ANB will be building toward. The 2027 Games in Quebec City are winter and have no track. If your child is 12 to 15 now and loves this, the 2029 trials are the long-range target.

School Cross Country and Track: Elementary, Middle and High School

Most Fredericton kids meet running through school, and the school calendar is fixed enough to plan around. Cross country is a fall sport, roughly the second week of September to late October. Track and field is a spring sport, roughly late April to the first week of June. Both are free beyond a pair of shoes and, at most schools, a small team fee for the bus.

Elementary and middle school. Anglophone West's elementary schools typically field a cross country team run by the phys-ed teacher, with practices at recess or after school and a handful of meets in late September and October; the provincial calendar shows elementary meets running the last week of September elsewhere in the province, and Fredericton's follow the same rhythm. Middle schools race at the FHS Invitational Middle and High School Cross Country Meet at Odell Park on October 1, 2026, which is the biggest local youth cross country day of the year, and the Saint John Reds host an elementary and middle school invitational on October 7 if you want a road trip. Spring track at the middle school level is a mix of intra-school field days and district meets; we could not find a published 2027 district schedule, so ask your child's phys-ed teacher in April. The honest advice: if the school has a team, join it, because it is the cheapest coaching your child will ever get, and the club's fall cross country group is timed to run alongside it.

High school (Fredericton High, Leo Hayes, École Sainte-Anne, Oromocto High). High school sport is run by School Sport New Brunswick, the body that was the NBIAA until it renamed itself. Cross country has junior and senior divisions for boys and girls. Fredericton schools race in the South-West region, and the SSNB South-West Regionals are in Fredericton on October 16, 2026 (Odell Park in 2025; Killarney Lake in 2024, hosted jointly by Leo Hayes and FHS), with the SSNB Provincial Championships on October 23, 2026 in Dalhousie. Per the regionals rules, the top five runners from the top four teams plus the leading individuals advance, 32 runners per regional per category. The 2025 provincials were at Killarney Lake, so Fredericton kids have had a home course two years running and lose it in 2026.

Track and field flips the geography. The South-West regionals were May 31, 2025 at Canada Games Stadium in Saint John, the provincials were June 7, 2025 in Saint John, and the 2026 provincials were May 31 at the Université de Moncton. The top eight in each event at regionals qualify, and field events carry a minimum standard. Results from the school provincials count toward Legion team selection, which is why club coaches care about them. SSNB had not posted 2027 dates when we checked; expect regionals in the last week of May and provincials the first weekend of June.

One more thing about high school running here: UNB hosts the AUS Cross Country Invitational at Odell Park in early September (September 6 in 2025) and the ANB Crown Cross Country Provincial Championships at Odell Park on November 8, 2026. Both have youth or open races, both are free to watch, and standing on the hill at Odell watching university runners suffer is a surprisingly effective way to make a 13-year-old want in.

Francophone Options: Jeux de l'Acadie, DSF-S Schools and the Centre Sainte-Anne

For a child at École Sainte-Anne or École des Bâtisseurs, the school pathway is the same as the anglophone one with a large bonus attached: the Jeux de l'Acadie. The Jeux de l'Acadie are open to "tous les élèves de 10 à 16 ans inscrits dans une école francophone des provinces de l'Atlantique," with athlétisme as one of the core sports. Athletes qualify through regional games held in the year of the finale, representing the school they attend, and the 46e finale is in Tracadie in 2027 (the 2025 athletics finale ran June 28 at École Anna-Malenfant in Dieppe). Athletics New Brunswick runs a dedicated Jeux de l'Acadie program and coaches, and for a francophone kid in Fredericton the Jeux are the equivalent of the Legion team a few years earlier: a real multi-day Games, a team uniform, and the first taste of representing a region. Ask the phys-ed staff at the school in the fall about the regional qualifier; it is a school-driven process, not a club one.

Students at DSF-S schools also race in the SSNB cross country and track championships alongside the anglophone schools, so nothing in the previous section is closed to them. Home-schooled francophone kids can enter the Jeux by affiliating with their community school, provided one parent is francophone and most of the child's education is in French.

The Centre communautaire Sainte-Anne at 715 rue Priestman (506-453-2731) is the hub for French-language community sport through the Association sportive francophone de Fredericton, but its posted programming when we checked was badminton and gym sport rather than athletics; there is no French-language track club in the capital. The Fredericton reds coach in English with bilingual coaches on staff some years, and the province's francophone clubs (ASEA Athlétisme Sud-Est in Moncton is the big one) are where the French-first club environment lives. For a Fredericton family that is a Moncton meet, not a Tuesday practice.

Road Races and Fun Runs Built for Kids

Fredericton's race calendar is the easiest on-ramp in this whole guide, because three of the year's best kids' events are free and a fourth costs ten dollars. Here they are in calendar order, with 2026 and 2027 details as posted.

• Terry Fox Run, Sunday September 20, 2026. Free, non-competitive, walk or run or bike any distance. The Fredericton run has started from the Small Craft Aquatic Centre on the Green in recent years with a barbecue at the finish; the local committee posts details on its Facebook page (Terry Fox Run Fredericton), and most schools run their own Terry Fox event the same week.
• Fredericton Fall Classic, September 26 to 27, 2026. The 43rd edition, organized by the Capital City Road Runners from Government House at 51 Woodstock Road. The kids' run and the 3 km fun run are free, Saturday afternoon, on-site registration only at 2 p.m. with the kids' races starting at 3:15 p.m. Past editions offered 500 m and 1 km kids' distances and drew 135 young runners. The adult races are Sunday: half at 8:30, 10K at 8:45, 5K at 9 a.m. ($56.91 early bird to August 9, $67.83 after), and no posted minimum age for the 5K. The 10K and half sold out in 2026, so a teenager wanting the 10K should register in the spring.
• CIBC Run for the Cure, Sunday October 4, 2026. Also at Government House, 1 km and 5 km walk or run both starting at 11 a.m., opening ceremonies at 10:15. Family-friendly, fundraising-based rather than a fixed entry fee.
• Run for KidSport, Sunday November 1, 2026. Carleton Park on the north side (by Picaroons Roundhouse), 3 km, 5 km and 8 km out-and-back courses starting at 9:30 and 9:35 a.m., minimum $25 donation to KidSport NB. Kids are welcome at every distance, and the money goes to the fund in the next section, which is a nice loop.
• Trites Orthodontics Youth Fun Run, Saturday May 8, 2027, 10 a.m., Officers' Square. The Fredericton Marathon's kids' event, for ages 2 to 12: a 200 m dash for the smallest, 500 m for ages 4 to 6 and 1 km for ages 7 to 12, $10 including tax plus Race Roster fees (it was $8.75 plus a $3.09 fee in 2026), with a t-shirt, a medal and snacks. One parent may run with each child; strollers are banned on the course. The marathon weekend is May 7 to 9, 2027, and it is the only Fredericton event RunNB flags in its Youth Series. The 5K on Sunday was $50 early and $60 late in 2026 and is the natural next step for a 10-to-14-year-old.
• Fredericton Mile by Run with the REDS, late summer. A flat out-and-back mile along the river from the pedway bridge, with a kids' 800 m for $3 to $5, organized by the UNB coaches as a fundraiser for the varsity team. The 2024 edition was September 1; check RunNB's calendar in August for the 2027 date, since it was not posted when we checked.

Every one of these is listed on the RunNB calendar, which is the single page to bookmark. RunNB's $15 Community Road and Trail membership through ANB is optional for these events but gets a kid into the provincial road-running series if they start collecting finish lines.

Trails, parkrun and the Family Running Habit

If the goal is simply a kid who runs, the cheapest and most durable program in the city is Saturday morning at 9. The Bill Thorpe Walking Bridge parkrun is a free, timed, volunteer-run 5 km every Saturday at 9 a.m., starting at the north-side end of the walking bridge at 912 Union Street and finishing with coffee at Picaroons Roundhouse. Register once online, print the barcode, and you have a weekly race with results. parkrun's rules for children: kids can register from age four, and under-11s must stay within arm's reach of a parent or designated adult the whole way, so the first few years are a family outing by design. Walkers are welcome and nobody is last, because the tail walker is a volunteer. Many club kids in Fredericton got their start this way.

The two parks. Killarney Lake on the north side (1605 St. Mary's Street) has an easy 1.7 km lake loop that is the perfect first "real run" for a six-year-old, plus longer trails behind it; it hosted the school provincials in 2025 and the Kids of Steel triathlon. Odell Park on the south side has wide gravel trails, a 4.4 km main woods loop with a few honest hills, and the arboretum paths for shorter outings; it is the city's cross country course for everything from middle school to the AUS. Both are stroller-friendly on the main loops and both get icy in December, so this is a spring-to-fall habit. In winter, the free Grant-Harvey track (five laps to the kilometre, strollers permitted) is where families go.

Trail races with kids' events. The NB trail running calendar lists five races in the Fredericton area. The one to circle is the Mactaquac Trail Race, October 3 to 4, 2026, with a free kids' run on Saturday October 3 at 12:30 p.m., sign-up on site at the Beaver Pond parking lot, and a $29.30 5K the same day for older kids and parents; the 10K and 20K run Sunday. The Penniac Traverse (September 27, 2026, Nashwaak Valley), the Flyin Feet Five Miler at Odell (June), the Sundial Circuit at Killarney (a dawn-to-dusk June event) and the Baker's Dozen at Woolastook (July, 6 km loops) round out the season and are adult races that older teens can enter. The Fredericton Trail Runners are a free social group with Tuesday 6 p.m. runs and Sunday long runs; they have no youth policy posted, so a teenager would go with a parent. The Running Room's free Wednesday run club (6 p.m. from 449 King Street, April to December) is likewise all-welcome but adult in practice.

Triathlon and Duathlon for Kids

Kids' triathlon in New Brunswick runs under the Kids of Steel banner, and Fredericton has a race but not, as far as we could confirm, a youth club. Triathlon New Brunswick's Kids of Steel program sets short, age-scaled swim-bike-run distances so a seven-year-old can finish in twenty minutes, and it publishes a summer racing schedule each May. The Kids of Steel Triathlon at Killarney Lake is the local event: the last edition we could find details for ran August 31, 2024, from 8:30 a.m. to noon for ages 3 to 14, with registration through its Facebook group. We could not find a 2026 listing on the tourism calendar when we checked, so watch Triathlon NB's schedule in May 2027 and the Fredericton Triathlon Club's Facebook page.

The Fredericton Triathlon Club itself is an adult training club (memberships have run through Race Roster and CCN Bikes in past years) and has no posted youth program. Duathlon (run-bike-run) shows up occasionally as a kids' category at the same events rather than as its own program. The practical route for a triathlon-curious kid in Fredericton is the one families already use: swimming lessons for the water, a bike, and the club or school for the run, then a Kids of Steel start line in August as the reward. If your child takes to it, the Reds' Road Runner group and the Saint John Reds' equivalent both describe themselves as training for road running and triathlon competitors.

Gear: Shoes, Spikes and When They Actually Matter

This is the cheapest sport in this section of the site, and the gear list proves it: running shoes that fit, weather-appropriate layers, a water bottle. That is the whole kit for Novice, Intermediate, school cross country and every fun run above. Do not buy anything else until a coach asks you to.

Spikes are the one purchase that generates questions. A spike is a lightweight shoe with a plate under the forefoot that takes small screw-in metal pins. For track, pins are short pyramids (6 mm is the near-universal maximum on synthetic tracks, and indoor facilities enforce it strictly, so check the meet package before you drive to Saint John); for cross country, longer pins for grass and mud. Kids do not need them for Novice or for school cross country at the elementary and middle school level, where the fields are grass and the races are short. They start to matter at U14 and above on a synthetic track, and for a high school cross country runner on a wet Odell course. Youth spikes are inexpensive as sports gear goes and last several seasons if the pins are replaced, but they are unforgiving of poor fit and a bad idea for a growing foot to wear for anything but racing and the last few sprints of practice. The Running Room on King Street stocks them and will fit them; Facebook Marketplace is full of barely-used pairs every September because kids outgrow them faster than they wear them out.

A few other honest notes. Field events use the club's implements, so you never buy a shot or a discus. School teams supply singlets. For cross country in October, gloves and a light hat matter more than any shoe. And if your child is in the Athlete group and starts talking about carbon-plated racing shoes, that is a conversation for a coach and a parent together, not a birthday present; they are a tool for a specific kind of race and a specific kind of runner, and most teenagers are neither yet.

Costs and Financial Help

Put the year together and running is a fraction of hockey or dance. A club season is the largest item: the Fredericton reds' last posted fees were $100 (Intermediate) to $125 (Athlete) per season in 2023, and a comparable Saint John program is $225 in 2026, so plan on $100 to $250 per season and double it if your child does both fall/winter and spring/summer. Add the ANB membership ($35 for U10 to U12 or $90 for U14 and up in 2026), meet entries at $10 to $20 an event, a pair of shoes and, eventually, spikes. A fully committed U16 who races indoors and out and makes the Legion team might spend $800 to $1,200 in a year including the $350 Legion fee, and that includes a trip to Regina. A U12 who does the club's Intermediate group and every fun run in town will come in under $400. School running is free.

Two grants cover most of that, and both pay the club directly. KidSport New Brunswick gives up to $400 per child per calendar year toward registration, with income assessed through the Canada Child Benefit or a CRA notice of assessment, and 2026 application cutoffs of January 30, March 1, June 1 and August 1 (decisions within 30 days). Canadian Tire Jumpstart gives up to $300 per child per year for ages 4 to 18, covers equipment as well as fees, uses Revenue Canada's low-income cut-offs, and requires the program to run at least five weeks with weekly sessions, which the club's six-week Novice block and both full seasons satisfy. The two stack, and Jumpstart is the one that will pay for spikes. The Run for KidSport in November raises money for exactly this fund, which makes the $25 donation feel a little better.

Beyond the grants: ANB's $22 Recreation membership and single-season options exist to keep the entry cost low for U10 and U12, the club's cross country group is the cheapest way to try a structured program, and both parkrun and the Fall Classic kids' run are free. If money is the only thing between your child and a track club, email the club and say so; small volunteer clubs in this province find a way far more often than their websites suggest. See also the overview in our kids' sports registration calendar and the broader kids' activities and programs guide.

The Registration Calendar: What Opens When

Running has three seasons stacked on top of each other, so this is the calendar to keep on the fridge. Dates are as posted for 2026-27; where an organization had not published, we give last year's timing.

• Late August to mid-September: Fredericton reds fall/winter registration (season runs mid-September to April 1) and the six-week fall Novice block. School cross country teams form in the first two weeks of class. ANB opened 2027 memberships on September 8, 2026. UNB's AUS Cross Country Invitational at Odell Park (early September).
• September 20 to 27, 2026: Terry Fox Run (Sept 20). Fredericton Fall Classic free kids' run and 3K (Saturday Sept 26, register on site at 2 p.m.), adult races Sept 27. Penniac Traverse trail race (Sept 27).
• October 2026: FHS Invitational middle and high school cross country, Odell Park (Oct 1). Mactaquac Trail Race free kids' run (Oct 3). CIBC Run for the Cure, 1K and 5K (Oct 4). SSNB South-West Cross Country Regionals in Fredericton (Oct 16). SSNB Cross Country Provincials, Dalhousie (Oct 23). Club cross country group wraps up.
• November 2026: Run for KidSport, Carleton Park (Nov 1). ANB Crown Cross Country Provincial Championships, Odell Park (Nov 8). Indoor meets begin in Saint John (RJT Challenge Nov 26, Red and Black Open Dec 5, Reds Team Challenge Dec 12). Fredericton Marathon early-bird pricing runs to January 1.
• January to March 2027: KidSport cutoff Jan 30, then March 1. Indoor season peaks: RJT Challenge (Jan 22), NB Indoor and University Invitational (late Jan or early Feb in 2025), AUS Championships (Feb 19 to 20), Atlantic Indoor Championships (late Feb in 2025), RJT Challenge (Mar 16). Fall Classic registration opens late February. Club spring/summer registration and the spring Novice block open in March. ANB coaching courses run in March and April if a parent wants to help.
• April 1, 2027: Club spring/summer season begins (to mid-August). Running Room run club restarts (late April). Reds Multi-Sport Camp summer weeks typically post on Trackie about now.
• May 2027: Outdoor meets open in Moncton and Saint John (second and third weekends in 2025). Fredericton Marathon weekend May 7 to 9, Youth Fun Run Saturday May 8 at 10 a.m. Triathlon NB posts its Kids of Steel schedule. SSNB Track and Field Regionals (last weekend of May in 2025). KidSport cutoff June 1.
• June 2027: SSNB Track and Field Provincials (first weekend of June in 2025). Flyin Feet Five Miler at Odell and the Sundial Circuit at Killarney. Jeux de l'Acadie finale in Tracadie (late June). Hub City Classic and Stivos Cup in Moncton.
• July 2027: ANB Provincial Championships with Legion and Canada Games trials (July 6 in 2025, Saint John). Baker's Dozen at Woolastook. KidSport cutoff August 1.
• August 2027: Legion National Youth Championships, Regina, Aug 6 to 8 (team travels Aug 4 to 10). Fall Classic price jump after Aug 9 and the 10K and half sell out. Kids of Steel Triathlon at Killarney Lake (late August in 2024). Fredericton Mile with the kids' 800 m (Labour Day weekend in 2024). Then it all starts again.

If you register for exactly two things this year, make them the club's fall cross country group in September and the Marathon Youth Fun Run in May; between them they cover the sport's whole arc, and neither will cost you more than a tank of gas. For the rest of the family's schedule, our soccer and hockey guides explain how the fall and winter registration windows collide with this one.