Where are all the running events?

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Blister 16 Sep 7:48pm, 16 Sep 2024 7,440 posts	0 Blister Ah yes the car flyers, I miss those! I also miss reasonable race entry prices!
cackleberry 16 Sep 8:01pm, 16 Sep 2024 4,038 posts	0 cackleberry I usually find out about races the day after they have happened...
cackleberry 16 Sep 8:02pm, 16 Sep 2024 4,039 posts	0 cackleberry ... which reminds me, I have a couple to add to the Fetch listings...
Jen HB 16 Sep 8:31pm, 16 Sep 2024 2,866 posts	0 Jen HB I know I've been handed fliers at parkrun before....
cackleberry 16 Sep 8:34pm, 16 Sep 2024 4,040 posts	0 cackleberry What about SiEntries? They have a massive directory.
K5 Gus 17 Sep 6:59am, 17 Sep 2024 6,237 posts	0 K5 Gus entrycentral.com q-buster.co.uk
stilldreaming 17 Sep 7:26am, 17 Sep 2024 1,463 posts	0 stilldreaming Run ABC is a good source too!
Muttley 17 Sep 7:43am, 17 Sep 2024 3,481 posts	0 Muttley Time Outdoors has a large directory. It recently started demanding you sign up in order to see a race's details beyond the name, although these can always be found with a quick search online. There's also individual race organizers, who don't always advertise widely or at least not where I look. Here in the southwest there's Freedom Racing, Purple Gecko, and Bys Vyken among others. A single race directory would be wonderful but it would depend on people notifying it of races, which is kind of where we are now. More power to the OP if he thinks he has a way to improve this.
Shades 17 Sep 7:46am, 17 Sep 2024 4,047 posts	0 Shades I quite like Find a Race too findarace.com
Muttley 17 Sep 7:55am, 17 Sep 2024 3,482 posts	0 Muttley That seems a decent site, Shades. Just had a look round. Pity it lists the Lighthouse Marathon as St Ives Cambridgeshire though!

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I know Fetch has a pretty comprehensive database of running events, but it still depends on member contributions. I tend to run track races (800m/1500m) and almost always have to add the event I'm running to the database myself because no one else on Fetch is doing it - and track races are notoriously tedious to find.

For a long time, I've had this idea of writing some software to aggregate events from different directories (like Power of 10, Roster Athletics, etc) into one place, s...

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