Where can you find details on races in your area? The best place to start is with a local running club. Don’t worry if you don’t know anyone in the club or even how to contact them. If you don’t know any runners in your area who you can ask about local clubs, call the national office of the Road Runners Club of America at (703) 836-0558. Ask for the name and number of the club nearest to you. Once you know the club in your area, give it a call. Most clubs maintain a hotline that has a recording of upcoming club races.
If you know of a running store near you, visit it. Ask the salespeople (who are usually local runners) if they know where you can find information about local races. Many areas have local running publications that do a fantastic job of listing all of the upcoming races in a locale. Most running stores are also depositories for race flyers. Look through them to see if any of them interest you.
If you have Internet access, next stop is the World Wide Web. Appendix B, “Resources for Runners,” lists some of the best running Web sites. Because of the nature of this book, most of those Web sites are national in scope, but many have links to local running Web sites. There, you can often find race listings.
The two top national running magazines, Runner’s World and Running Times, list upcoming races in their calendar sections. Of the two, Running Times maintains a more in-depth calendar, but neither can possibly list all of the 15,000 races that are held in the United States every year. Their calendars are handy resources, however, if you’re going to be traveling and want to sneak in a race while you’re away.
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