Weekly Newsletter 8 October 2025

This week's newsletter has interesting articles, including looking at how many long runs you really need to be race ready.

Interesting Articles

Are marathon-paced runs effective for training?

Many elite runners will use marathon pace as a stand-alone workout or practice it in the second half of their long run. Canadian Running looks at how useful is marathon pace training to the average runner.

Interval running vs continuous running: which will transform your training?

Sport Coaching takes a look at interval running and continuous running and how to work a combination into your training regime.

How many long runs do you really need to be race ready?

Runners World looks at how your minimum requirement may be lower than you think.

How to increase running endurance in 6 weeks (without overtraining)

Learning how to increase endurance running is often far less complicated than we like to make it: easy runs, strength, mental training, eating enough…patience. But you want to know how to do it faster, so let’s look at what you can do immediately to see improvements. Find out more at coach Amanda Brooks' Run to the Finish blog.

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