Weekly Newsletter 20 August 2025

This week's newsletter has interesting articles, including looking at how to make early morning runs easier.

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.

Running stairs is the secret to more speed and power

Stairs, like hills, up the intensity of a running workout. But the intensity of the stairs’ elevation is often harder than a gradual hill, which increases the load. Find out more at Runners World.

Decoding your running gel: what those labels really mean

Run to the Finish talks to nutrition coach and sports dietitian Kylee Van Horn about how to understand gel labels so you know what you’re trying.

Rules to keep your running simple

Sarah Lavender Smith shares her advice at Trail Runner Magazine after two decades of trail running: run regularly. not too fast. mostly trails.

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!

Cheers,
Jane & Chris
The Running Calendar Team