Race Lists:
UK Results | John Schofield's comprehensive events listings - North of England bias, but ever expanding - online race entry now on sister site UK Forms
UK Road Races | Dave Clarke's Shoestring events listings - NW England bias
SportsSoft Race Results | SportSoft events listings, biased towards x-country but often with races not on above two
North East Races | Barry Cornelius's race listings for the North East, including Yorkshire and Cumbria.
Northern Running Guide | Races, Results and more
RunnersWorld | Races with a slightly more southern bias
Woodentops | More fell races than Bronte sisters, up (and down) the wuthering heights of the Haworth Moors - popular with chocolate lovers
Cannonball Events | NEW Road and Trail Races around Calderdale and the South Pennines
Kiwi Classic Events | Friendly events on the East side of Greater Manchester
Pendle and Burnley Grand Prix | Annual open summer series of road, trail and fell races in East Lancs
Rossendale Mid-Week series | Rossendale Harriers' open series of summer fell races
Central Lancashire Grand Prix | Annual closed series of road and trail races a bit further west
Area Fell Race Grand Prix | Annual closed series of fell races in East Lancs/ North Mancs
Red Rose Cross Country League | Winter XC series in East Lancs
Local 5k parkruns: Barrow in Furness parkrun FB - Bolton Leverhulme parkrun FB - Bramhall parkrun FB - Burnage parkrun FB - Burnley Towneley parkrun FB - Carlisle parkrun FB - Congleton parkrun FB - Delamere Forest parkrun FB - Heaton parkrun FB - Liverpool Princes parkrun FB - Marple parkrun FB - Oldham Alexandra parkrun FB - Pennington Flash Parkrun FB - Preston parkrun FB - S Manchester Platt Fields parkrun FB - Woodbank parkrun FB - Worsley Woods parkrun FB - Wythenshaw parkrun FB
Barnsley Locke parkrun FB - Bradford Lister parkrun FB - Dewsbury parkrun FB - Harrogate parkrun FB - Huddersfield Greenhead parkrun FB - Hull East parkrun - Hull Peter Pan parkrun FB - Leeds Woodhouse Moor parkrun FB - Leeds Roundhay parkrun FB - Leeds Temple Newsam parkrun FB - Leeds Cross Flatts parkrun FB - Pontefract parkrun FB - Rotherham parkrun FB - Rother Valley parkrun FB - Scunthorpe parkrun FB - Sewerby parkrun FB - Sheffield Concord parkrun FB - Sheffield Hallam (Endcliffe) parkrun FB - Sheffield Graves parkrun FB - Sheffield Hillsborough parkrun FB - York parkrun FB
FREE friendly 5k timed runs (not races!) EVERY Saturday at 9:00am... for everyone... in parks everywhere! #dfyb
Parkrun Wiki parkrun information resource - UK parkrun tourist list - Global parkrun uber tourists
Plus, listen to the weekly parkrun show podcast from the Marathon Talk / Talk Ultra people.
Not a parkrun, but based upon a similar model, there is now a free 5km runsunday at Otley Chevin every Sunday at 10:30am.
Great Run Local - FREE carbon copy 5k timed runs at 9am every Sunday - Boggart Hole Clough - Debdale Park - Wythenshaw - with the added option of a shorter 2km run.
Misc:
Race Maps | John Mayall's course info for those who like to know where they are going... or where they have been
Good Run Guide (Measure Tool) | Work out how far you have gone, on or off road
Map My Run | Registration and tolerance of adverts required for this mapping site
Endomondo | Registration also required
WMA Age Grading Calculator | Handy official calculator to even out performances
Running For Fitness | Various handy calculators including age grading and race predictions
Mountain Weather Info Service | Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow... failing that, scorching sunshine will do
Mountain Forecast | Comprehensive worldwide mountain weather site
Mud Sweat and Tears | Off Road On Line magazine
Grough | Online outdoor news magazine
Run Britain | More event listings plus road race rankings
Runnerslife | Includes several athletes' training diaries to inspire!
Fetch Everyone | Logs, Blogs and runnng forums
Fell Running Briefs | Top blogging from the world of fell running
Running Pictures:
My Picasa Albums | Photographs taken by Buddy (2011-)
My Flikr Albums | annoying, user unfriendly, limited application - only used for parkrun photographs, coz I have to!
My Older Albums | My Photographs (Archive 2008-2010)
Butterwick Wells - Hand Made Photograph Albums | High Quality Photograph Albums and Folios aimed at professional and semi-professional photographers.
Athleticos | Video coverage and more of British athletics
Sport Sunday | David and Laura Bradshaw [Burnley]
Running Pix Steve Bateson [Rossendale]
www.photos-dsb.co.uk | David S Brett [Yorks]
Flaming Photography | Multi Sports [Holmfirth]
http://adyinaccy.smugmug.com/ | Ady [Accrington]Run and Ride | Owen Duval [Preston]
Wharfee | Andy Holden [Yorkshire Dales]
www.kipax.com | Multi Sports - Tony Greenwood [Accrington]
White Flyer Photography | Mark Sanderson [Lancs]
http://digitalfeel.photium.com/ | Colin McMullen [?]
http://mickhall-photos.com/ | Mick Hall [North Midlands]
(If you regularly taking running pics in the area and want to be added to listings - just let me know!)
Organisations:
Fell Running Association | includes a fell race listing section
BOFRA | British Open Fell Running Association
Welsh FRA
Scottish Hill Runners
WMRA | World Mountain Running Association
UK Athletics | one of many layers of sporting bureaucracy and home of the Power of 10 performance database
England Athletics | and another... backers of Run England and Great Run Local
Northern Athletics | and another
Calderdale Athletic Development Group | independant group that represents the interests of all athletes and clubs in the Calderdale area
Association of Running Clubs | Growing alternative affiliating body for running clubs and races.
Local Running Clubs:
Todmorden Harriers
Accrington Road Runners | Astley and Tyldsley Road Runners | Barlick Fell Runners | Belle Vue Racers | Bingley Harriers | Calder Valley Fell Runners | Clayton Le Moors Harriers | Darwen Dashers | East Cheshire Harriers | Halifax Harriers | Holmfirth Harriers | Huddersfield Road Runners | Ilkley Harriers | Keighley & Craven AC | Meltham AC | Middleton Harriers | Oldham & Royton | Pennine Fell Runners | Radcliffe AC | Rochdale Harriers | Rossendale Harriers | Royton Road Runners | Saddleworth Runners | Stainland Lions | Stadium Runners | Trawden AC | Wesham Road Runners | Wharfedale Harriers
Clubfinder |
Other local stuff:
Calder Valley Search and Rescue
Todmorden News | Read all about the news in Todmorden
Lancashire Evening Telegraph | excellent Athletics section
Butterwick Wells - Hand Made Photograph Albums | Based in nearby Cragg Vale (on the route of stage 2 of the 2014 Tour de France), a wonderful company in a wonderful location making wonderful photographic products. Sure I've heard of them before?
