Weekly Newsletter 1 October 2025

This week's newsletter has interesting articles, including looking at whether or not running ruins your knees, and how old is too old to start running.

Interesting Articles

Does running ruin your knees? And how old is too old to start?

The Conversation looks at these two common questions about running, and also at why running’s bad reputation persists.

Vary your training to run stronger, feel better and enjoy it

Check out how to vary your training and turn your routine runs into something exciting and effective.

Why every runner should add the toe touch exercise to their routine

The toe touch exercise is one of the simplest moves you can add to your training, yet it delivers powerful benefits for runners. Find out more in this guide at Sport Coaching.

How to increase running endurance in 6 weeks (without overtraining)

Learning how to increase endurance running is often far less complicated than we like to make it: easy runs, strength, mental training, eating enough…patience. But you want to know how to do it faster, so let’s look at what you can do immediately to see improvements. Find out more at coach Amanda Brooks' Run to the Finish blog.

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!

Regards,
Jane & Chris
The Running Calendar Team