Running

Runner's World is one of the world's leading running magazines, with content geared toward a novice/non-elite readership. The publication's inspiring, insightful, authoritative articles cover all aspects of training and fitness, including beginners’ training programs, gear reviews, nutrition ideas, and elite news and race results. It also has a training calculator and a pace converter.

Running Times Magazine 's site has a load of resources for athletes of all ability levels, but is slightly more technical than Runner's World. It has feature articles on training, racing, gear, health, and more. For tools it has pace charts, pace equivalent charts, a split calculator, and a BMI calculator.

Cool Running is one of the Web's oldest running sites. This is a great place to locate upcoming races, check the latest local race results (or visit their huge archive of past results), record your training (using the online training log), get training advice, and find other sites using the link directory.
 

Track and Field News is one of the biggest sources for news coverage of high school, college, and professional running. Here you'll find an archive of records, rankings, and photos from various events, and several articles on technique that first appeared in Track Coach, a sister publication of Track and Field News.

LetsRun.com is a site created and operated by elite running and coaching duo Weldon and Robert Johnson.  This site has fantastic content despite its cluttered layout. It focuses on NCAA Division I and national and international elite running, and has extremely active message boards.

Athletics Weekly is a U.K.-based running magazine, offering coverage of the sport both in Britain and internationally. The site offers news, event results, an editor's blog, and "AW Basics," articles that provide advice and tips for beginners.

Flotrack is a fantastic multimedia elite track and field Web site. The "Coverage" section has a list of events covered, with race footage and exclusive athlete interviews. Flotrack also has great candid coverage of the sport. For a good example of what they do, visit their page on the 2007 Prefontaine Classic held in Eugene, Oregon.

JoffroiRunning has a few useful features: there are all-text interviews with top athletes, called "Quickies," and links to running videos (currently about 90). Visit the "Store" to find most of the video footage on the site available for sale in DVD format.

Fast-Women.com is a great source for information on elite women's distance running. The interviews and photos are the highlights of this site. Check out the Featured Photo Galleries at the left side of the homepage for photos from major events.

MensRacing is the brother site of Fast-Women. Also hosted by the New York Road Runners, MensRacing has interviews, photos, and news. Although the interviews have stayed current, the photography has slowed in its coverage, focusing primarily on NYC-based events.

EliteRunning is more than a blog-it is a well-rounded site with interviews, photos, news, feature stories, and more. Founded by Alison Wade, formerly of MensRacing and Fast-Women, EliteRunning's similarities with those two great sites are unmistakable.

Track And Field Photo Magazine is an online magazine based in Los Angeles, dedicated to providing photographic coverage of top-level domestic and international competitions. For access to the photography galleries, click the "Galleries" link in the navigation bar at the bottom of the page. Photography is extensive, and extremely high quality.

Boulder Running is a great way to keep on top of what's happening on the Boulder, Colorado, running scene-an interesting read even for non-locals, given the town's well-deserved reputation as one of the country's premier meccas for endurance enthusiasts.

Track and Field All-Time Performances has performance lists for men's and women's running events from the 100 meters to the 50-kilometer race-walk. What makes this site particularly brilliant is how long the lists are. For example, there are more than 3,500 entries for the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase. Listings include the name, time, place, ranking, and nationality of all the athletes.

Athletics Data has records and statistics for the U.K. and abroad, from 2005 and 2006 in all events and back to 2001 for middle distance events. Search results by event, meeting, venue or date, and search rankings by event, age group, sex, or year.

Tilastopaja Oy is another phenomenally comprehensive stats site. Along the left border of the page you'll see lists of the year's top performers across different distances.

DatabaseOlympics has a comprehensive archive containing listings for every Olympic winner since the 1896 games. Listings can be browsed by year, athlete, country, location, or event.

Brinkster has an impressive statistics database, with results from National Championship and Olympic trials events dating back to the late 19th century, as well as American records dating back to 1890. However, the only free area on the site is the men's National Championship results; everything else requires paying a membership fee, ranging from $5 to $90.

The Association of Road Racing Statisticians has stats and more for worldwide elite distance running events at distances of 3,000 meters and longer.

DyeStat certainly lives up to its self-description as the "Internet home of high school track and field." Site founder John Dye and his team do an incredible job of following the latest happenings in high school running. There's a handy results section, news log, and an incredibly active message board.

Trackshark has news, performance lists (the all-important national qualifying performance lists for all college divisions), rankings, weekly wrap-ups of college track happenings, and meet photography. You can also find interviews with your favorite college runners, and blogs written by college and professional athletes, and coaches.

Jeff Galloway , Runner's World contributor and renowned coach, offers advice on training at his personal Web site. The "Training Basics" section has an introduction to the long run, as well as the concept of walking during a race.

Running Planet has training programs for an array of distances and ability levels. Their training articles are written by coaches and fitness professionals and cover diverse topics like how to run safely, how to eat well and stay hydrated, and how to train on a treadmill.

Cool Running has introductory training plans for race distances of 5k, 10k, half-marathon, and marathon. It also has guides to speed workouts for runners of different ability levels.    

Kids Running was founded by author and Runner's World contributor Carol Goodrow. Although it doesn't have flashy graphics or a sleek design, it's a very good source of information geared directly toward young kids. Competitive running is a demanding activity, both physically and mentally, so the issue of children running raises a lot of questions about going too hard, too early. Find answers and advice at Kids Running.

YouthRunner has news, feature articles, and a calendar of events covering high school track and field. The “Youth Competitors” and “Kids” sections cover grade school and middle school events and news.

Australian Mountain Running Association has a guide with tips on training for and running long distance trail and mountain races. Check here for a guide on running downhill and here for uphill running techniques.

Trail Runner magazine is dedicated entirely to the exciting sport of trail running. Within this magazine you'll find feature articles covering all aspects of the sport, including technique and training, nutrition, racing, and gear reviews. The Web site offers select pieces of content from the print magazine. Once you've gotten a sense of what the magazine has to offer, you can assess whether a subscription would suit you.

Ultra Running Resource is absolutely the best reference source for information on ultra marathons (endurance races, generally in excess of 50 miles) that the Web has to offer. It has everything from training advice to racing strategy and information on injury prevention and care, hydration, food, and supplement advice.

Dr. Pribut’s Running Injuries is the Web site of Stephen Pribut, a member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Podiatric Sports Medicine (AAPSM) and Chair of the AAPSM Shoe Committee. The Web site covers sports medicine with a focus on running-related injuries and prevention. He covers symptoms, causes, and treatments for common running injuries like Achilles tendonitis, runner's knee, and IT band syndrome. He also offers tips for stretching, training in cold weather, and more.

Arthur Lydiard’s Athletic Training is a 29-page guide to Arthur Lydiard's training philosophy, which touches on everything from general conditioning and jogging to hill training and running marathons. You can download the guide in PDF format at this site.

Bob Hodge does an analysis of coach John Molvar's analysis of Arthur Lydiard's philosophy. This is long, devoid of graphics, and visually abrasive, but it's an insightful document and, for anyone interested in Lydiard, one worth checking out.

New Zealand Edge has a biography of Lydiard, supplemented by photographs.

Holabird Sports is another site with extremely low prices on running shoes-it advertises savings of "50% on every item, everyday." They also have an e-mail newsletter announcing product news and specials.

National Running Center has a limited selection, but pretty amazing prices on new shoes. Check out the "Deal of the Week" area to find hugely discounted items, some over 50 percent off.

Eastbay , “The Athletic SportSource," is a fantastic place for running shoes and apparel. Beyond a great selection of well-priced trainers, Eastbay has the latest racing flats and spikes, with hot deals.

FootRX allows you to shop by category or brand. Using the Advanced Search option, you can look for specific models, or browse the Clearance section.

Road Runner Sports is one of the premier outfitters of running apparel around and also has a print catalog. Join the "VIP Free Shipping Club" and get member discounts on every purchase.

Mile Marker Sports sells the complete line of SportHill Clothing, a line of running and outdoor gear that is specially temperature tuned. Planning to run in an extreme climate? Get gear that is optimized for those temperatures; the temperature zone tabs at the top of the homepage can get you started.

LetsRun.com users get a 15 percent discount at FinishLine.com. Use the link near the top of the left-hand margin to access the site. Be sure to note the promotion code just beneath the FinishLine logo to get your discount.