14 upcoming races, each date checked by hand against the organiser.
Subscribe in your calendar appNetherlandsAmsterdam → Zaandam
next week
The biggest ten-mile race in the world, and its 40th edition. Starts on Dam Square, dives through the IJ tunnel — the loudest kilometre in Dutch running — and finishes in Zaandam.
GermanyBerlin
in 3 weeks
The largest marathon on earth and the fastest course in the sport — every men's world record since 2003 bar one has been set on these streets. If you are not running it, you are watching it.
GermanyCologne
in 4 weeks
A flat, loud, relentlessly friendly city marathon through the Rhineland, with a relay that makes it the easiest big German race to talk a club into together.
NetherlandsEindhoven
in 5 weeks
Flat, fast and unfussy, with a Saturday-night 10K under lights before the Sunday marathon. A good first marathon that does not pretend otherwise.
GermanyMunich
in 5 weeks
Finishes inside the 1972 Olympic Stadium, which is exactly the kind of last kilometre that makes the previous forty-one worth it.
NetherlandsAmsterdam
in 6 weeks
Starts and finishes on the track of the 1928 Olympic Stadium, with the Vondelpark and the canal belt in between. One of the most photogenic marathons in Europe.
IrelandDublin
in 7 weeks
Europe's fourth-largest marathon, and now so oversubscribed it runs a ballot — 47,000 applications for 17,200 places. The support through Crumlin and on the climb at Roebuck is the reason people come back.
GermanyFrankfurt
in 7 weeks
Germany's second-biggest marathon and its best-kept secret for a fast time — a genuinely flat course that ends on a red carpet inside the Festhalle.
NetherlandsNijmegen
in 2 months
The Seven Hills Run — 15km over the only real hills in the Netherlands, and a world-record course over the distance. The Zevenheuvelennacht runs the night before.
NetherlandsEgmond aan Zee
in 4 months
January. North Sea. Six kilometres straight down an open beach into whatever the wind is doing, then the dunes. The hardest half marathon in the Netherlands and the reason Dutch runners take December seriously. Sold out in record time.
IrelandDublin
in 5 months
Ireland's first dedicated running show, at the RDS — brands, race organisers, clubs and coaches in one room, at exactly the point in the year when everyone is planning their spring.
NetherlandsRotterdam
in 7 months
One of the fastest certified courses in the world and the loudest crowd in Dutch sport. The spring goal race — build for it from late December.
GermanyHamburg
in 8 months
Germany's biggest spring marathon, round the Alster and out through the harbour. A 16-week block for this one starts in the last week of December.
GermanyBerlin
in 13 months
Next year's edition. The ballot opens the autumn before, so if Berlin is the goal the planning starts roughly a year out.