Weekly Newsletter 1 October 2025

This week's newsletter has interesting articles, including how a practice race can help you to reach your running goals.

Interesting Articles

A practice race helps you to reach your goals

It’s smart to schedule a practice run before your goal race so you can perfect pacing, nutrition, and more. Find out more in this article at Runners World.

Marathon race training: build speed, endurance, and confidence for the big day

Training for a marathon isn’t just about logging endless miles. It’s about building endurance, sharpening race pace, and learning how your body handles the demands of 42.2 kilometres. Sport Coaching has all the information you need in this guide.

Home kettlebell workout for runners

Add this home kettlebell workout to your weekly routine to build strength and supercharge your running.

Yoga poses you need to try on race day

Canadian Running has four easy yoga moves to loosen up, calm your nerves and get race-day ready.

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!

Ngā mihi,
Jane & Chris
The Running Calendar Team