Weekly Newsletter 18 June 2025

This week's newsletter has interesting articles, including looking at what runners need to know about “functional training”.

Interesting Articles

How to make early morning runs easier

An early morning run can be essential to fitting your training into a busy week. Here's how to make getting up for them a lot easier.

What to do about that nagging arch pain when running

Runners World looks at what causes arch pain when running, when you should see a doctor, possible treatments, and how to prevent arch pain in the first place.

What runners need to know about “functional training”

The term “functional training” gets tossed around so much that it’s lost almost all meaning. But at its core, it just means training with a purpose—specifically, a purpose that helps you perform better in your sport. For runners, that means building strength, stability and control in ways that translate directly to how you move on the run. Find out more at Canadian Running.

Runner’s gut

The Conversation looks at why some marathon runners find themselves sprinting to the toilet instead of the finish line: why it happens and what you can do about it.

Recent updates

To find out what's been recently updated, check the recent updates page regularly for date changes, event postponements and cancellations. Check out the full calendar of upcoming events.

Until next week...

Have a great running week!

Mise le meas,
Jane & Chris
The Running Calendar Team