# RunningCalendar

> RunningCalendar (https://runningcalendar.co.za) is an independent, trusted calendar of running events across South Africa and Southern Africa (also Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Eswatini, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania). Established 2016. Every event listing is independently maintained and verification-tracked; listing an event is free. The site covers road, trail, and ultra races with distances, dates, venues, entry fees, and entry links.

## Browse the calendar

- [Home](https://runningcalendar.co.za/): RunningCalendar homepage — featured races, this week's events, and quick links into the calendar.
- [All upcoming events](https://runningcalendar.co.za/calendar): The full event calendar, filterable by date, distance, attributes, and location.
- [Map view](https://runningcalendar.co.za/calendar?view=map): Upcoming events plotted on a map.
- [Near me](https://runningcalendar.co.za/near-me): Events closest to the visitor's location.
- [Search](https://runningcalendar.co.za/search): Free-text search across events and races.
- [Race results](https://runningcalendar.co.za/results): Published results for past races.
- [Cities](https://runningcalendar.co.za/cities): Directory of city hubs with local running events.

## Browse by category

- [5 km races](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/distance/5km)
- [10 km races](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/distance/10km)
- [Half marathons (21 km)](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/distance/21km)
- [Marathons (42 km)](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/distance/42km)
- [Ultra marathons](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/distance/ultra)
- [Trail runs](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/terrain/trail)
- [Comrades Marathon qualifiers](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/qualifier/comrades)
- [Two Oceans Marathon qualifiers](https://runningcalendar.co.za/races/qualifier/two-oceans)
- Province, city, country, and qualifier hubs follow the patterns `/races/province/{slug}`, `/races/city/{slug}`, `/races/country/{iso2}`, and `/races/qualifier/{comrades|two-oceans}`.

## Content & guides

- [Articles](https://runningcalendar.co.za/articles): Running guides, race previews, and editorial content.
- [Training programs](https://runningcalendar.co.za/training-programs): Structured training plans.

## For organisers & visitors

- [About](https://runningcalendar.co.za/about): Background on RunningCalendar and its independent, verified, free positioning.
- [Submit a race](https://runningcalendar.co.za/submit-race): Organisers can list an event for free.
- [For organisers](https://runningcalendar.co.za/organisers): Organiser hub and tools.
- [Contact](https://runningcalendar.co.za/contact): Get in touch.
- [Newsletter](https://runningcalendar.co.za/newsletter): Subscribe to email updates on new and upcoming races (double opt-in).
- [Ad-free premium](https://runningcalendar.co.za/ad-free): Optional paid ad-free subscription.

## Machine-readable

- [XML sitemap](https://runningcalendar.co.za/sitemap.xml): Complete list of indexable URLs.
- [HTML sitemap](https://runningcalendar.co.za/sitemap): Human-browsable site map.

## Usage and licensing

All content on runningcalendar.co.za — event listings, descriptive prose, race data, and images — is © RunningCalendar and is compiled and independently maintained at our own cost. It is free to read; it is not free to redistribute.

- **Permitted:** citing or quoting individual event details in an answer, with attribution to RunningCalendar and a link to the specific page the information came from.
- **Requires written permission:** bulk extraction or reproduction of listings; republishing our event descriptions, whether verbatim or paraphrased; re-hosting our images; using this content to populate a competing calendar, directory, app, or dataset; and any commercial redistribution.
- **Available instead:** a documented read-only API and MCP server for licensed programmatic access. Ask us — it is cheaper and more reliable for you than scraping, and it stays current. [Contact](https://runningcalendar.co.za/contact).
- Full terms: [Terms of use](https://runningcalendar.co.za/terms). Requests, permissions and takedown correspondence: [Contact](https://runningcalendar.co.za/contact).

## Optional

- [Privacy policy](https://runningcalendar.co.za/privacy)
- [Terms of use](https://runningcalendar.co.za/terms)
- [Cookie policy](https://runningcalendar.co.za/cookies)
- [Disclaimer](https://runningcalendar.co.za/disclaimer)
- [Cancellation policy](https://runningcalendar.co.za/cancellation)
- [All policies](https://runningcalendar.co.za/policies): Index of all legal and policy pages.