Big update of the race calendar - Feb 2026

I recently updated the race calendar on the blog and it took a LOT of trawling around a multitude of websites to extract the date.

You can view it HERE

Here are a few observations...

1) Doing a quick search, it has 166 5k runs, 114 10k runs, 27 10-milers and about 80 half-marathons.

2) Despite the fact there is a city the size of Limerick and the huge numbers attending the Great Limerick Run on the May Bank Holiday weekend, there was a major lack of regular races there in the past. There seems to be a gradual increase in the number of events appearing there.

3) Waterford seems to be as lopsided as ever. While West Waterford AC are as busy as ever organising events in the west of the county, there is a serious lack of running events in Waterford city.

4) The running scene in Dublin seems to be as hectic as in Cork. Not a weekend goes by without some event happening in the capital. The adjacent counties seem to very busy as well.

Race calendar on blog passes 900,000 pageviews

I noticed that the running event calendar on the Running in Cork blog passed the 900,000 pageview mark in the last few days!

That by the way isn't 900,000 people. If you check out the calendar once a day then you'd generate 7 pageviews per week. Even still, it's a huge number.

A copy of the calendar is also kept on the Running in Munster site and that one is now at 377,574 pageviews. That brings the combined total for the calendar to almost 1.3 million.

At the moment, the combined calendar gets about 7,200 pageviews per month.

I've been asked about some upcoming half-marathons and 10-milers and there are plenty up the country which are easy enough to get to from Cork on the M8. I might include a few of these going forward as people are interested in them.

You can view the calendar HERE