phlebotomycourses: Your favourite running websites

Saturday, 23 February 2013

Your favourite running websites

From all-round magazines to training-focused online resources, you gave us your top online destinations ? so here they are

When we launched our running blog, we asked you to tell us about your favourite sites. If this had been an Olympic event, then Fetcheveryone would have sprinted away with the gold medal ? a huge number of you emailed, tweeted or commented about your love for the site. We asked the founder to tell us the story of the site and its devoted following ? you can read that here.

Meanwhile, we've started to compile a list from your suggestions. We've organised them into various categories, but we still want more. Are there other sites with helpful injury prevention or recovery advice? What about specific organised events, such as the popular Park Run? And how about getting those trainers mucky? We have a couple of off-road sites on our list already but there must be many more.

A final note: many of you suggested individual blogs (sometimes even your own). There were so many of these that we are still going through them. We'll add a list of them later.

Sites that cover everything

Fetch Everyone

Forums, training logs, race finder, blogs, reviews and more. Read more about it by the man who set it up here.

Running Competitor

Website of running magazine: reviews, articles, advice on nutrition and more

Running Times

Another online version of a magazine, with more of a focus on pro athletes and news from the world of competitive racing

Ultra Running

Website for magazine which deals with all things ultra, from training to nutrition and injury advice

Multi-day

Running and info hub on multi day and ultra events

Runner's World

Website of the popular magazine: has everything you need from shoe reviews to training plans via pics from readers of their favourite events and courses. Great for finding races, and race reports.

Konkura

Social network for fitness challenges ? you can compete against friends or indeed total strangers in various challenges

Targets, goals and training-focused websites

The Power of 10

Rankings for all UK runners ? from pros to amateurs ? listing results from all British Athletics- accredited races

Mcmillan Running

Simple to use running calculator and race time predictor. Also offers training plans and guidance as to training paces for different types of runs.

Running For Fitness

Another race time predictor

Runworks

? and another. Input recent race times and see what you could do in other distances.

Running Ahead

Free tools, including an online running log, to help you train effectively. You can enter data manually or synch with your Garmin.

Active Training World

Free resources, logs and training plans (not just for running: you can also use this site to find other events to enter)

Hal Higdon

Free training plans at varying levels for half marathons and marathons - from beginners who plan to walk it through to super speedy types. Higdon has contributed to Runner's Worlds since 1966 and written no fewer than 36 books.

Run Britain Rankings

Site offers a handicap scoring system, designed to give all road runners othe ability to benchmark their progress and compare their results across a range of distances and terrains.

NHS Couch to 5K

The most popular app to get you started, also has accommpanying podcasts

Running route plotters

All the following do the same thing, with varying degrees of style and functionality: gmap-pedometer.com; mapmyrun.com; gb.mapometer.com; runmyroute.com.