Support The Running Calendar Resource

Running Calendar was started by Chris Hope in New Zealand in 2010 and Australia in 2012 and quickly became the most comprehensive and up to date calendar of running events across both countries.

It has ended up becoming a more or less full time job, without the associated full-time income, and so a "Premium Membership" was created to add additional features on the website in return for a small annual fee.

Keeping the race calendars updated has always been the work of just one person - for the past 10 years it's been Chris, and now it's Jane (Mrs Running Calendar).

If you use and value this running resource, please support us! Sign up to Premium and you'll get:

An Ad-free experience

Ads are a necessary 'evil' for most online publishers and we know they can get in the way of the information you are looking for. Normally, the ads on Running Calendar are self-hosted and paid for directly by event organisers. Due to COVID-19 our normally 'sold out' ad inventory is being supplemented by fallback Google Adsense ads, which contain 3rd party trackers and can slow the site down.

By supporting us with a Premium Membership, you won't see any ads - just the events.

Location based searching

Location based searching allows you to type in an address or location and search within e.g. 50km of that location. This can be faster and more useful than searching by region or state, especially within a big state like Queensland in Australia.

View search results on a map

After running a search, premium members can click the "show on map" button to visualise the location of the events they've searched on. This is useful if you're not familiar with the area you're searching (e.g. is it near to where I'll be staying in Auckland or Brisbane? or is actually really far away).

Saved search alerts

Anyone can save a search they've run on Running Calendar and then re-run that same search at any time again, but premium members will also get emailed when new events have been added that match their saved searches.

Premium membership works across all Running Calendar websites

Once you've upgraded your membership, the premium features work across all our country based websites: New Zealand, Australia, Ireland, UK and USA.

Support Running Calendar today!

See a complete comparison between the different login types here

Over to you now!

Thanks for your support,

Chris Hope and Jane McNamara
“Mr and Mrs Running Calendar”