Running on Substack: A directory of Substack newsletters devoted to running
2nd Edition - published February 6, 2025
Welcome to the second edition of Running on Substack: over 36 new publications added
Thank you to everyone who expressed their enthusiasm about the first edition of Running on Substack. Due to the overwhelming response to the first edition, I am excited to offer an updated directory. If you are looking for a handy resource to help you find your favorite and new Substacks on running and running-related subjects, then you have come to the right place.
Running on Substack is a curated directory of running-related Substack newsletters. The Running on Substack directory focuses solely on running and running-related subjects, making it a convenient destination that simplifies your search.
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The Directory of Running on Substack: 2nd Edition
Listed alphabetically.
27.2
With Susie Stephen. Running beyond the box. A newsletter diving into the aspects of running that help us all go the extra mile.
Category: trail running
100 lessons x Read Before You Ultra
A publication inspired by ultra running, fueled by curiosity and appreciation of the wisdom, folly and quirkiness of what some would call “I don’t even like to drive that far.”
Category: ultra running
Abigail Lock
Sub-ultra trail athlete and running coach with a penchant for words, wild places and a nomadic state of being.
Category: trail running, general running
Ali on the Run Newsletter
Ali is host of the Ali on the Run Show podcast and a race announcer at the start and finish lines around the United States - including the Boston Marathon and the New York City Marathon. She writes about what motivates the everyday runner, what gets them to the starting line and more.
Category: general running
Allison’s Substack
Allison Powell covers topics on running, storytelling and life.
Category: general running, ultra running
A Matter of Brand
With Matt Trappe. A weekly newsletter discussing the latest brand storytelling and business activities across the sport of running.
Category: media
A Trailrunners/Triathlete’s Blog
Follow Scott Dunlap’s personal journal of endurance racing, traveling and sports technology. Formerly the publisher of “A Trail Runner’s Blog.”
Category: triathlon, trail running, ultra running
Betterpath
Brad Cooper shares practical physiology, psychology and philosophy insights to bolster life’s second half. A 11-time Ironman, elite masters runner, RAAM cycling champion & scientist.
Category: physiology
Breath Runner’s Substack
A new concept of running based on old ideas. “It’s like running on air!”
Category: general running
Building Up!
With Luis Mejia. The space where he shares his thoughts, research, frameworks, papers, photos, experiences about endurance, running, coaching, being a dad, and some other ramblings.
Category: general running
Candice’s Substack
With Candice Burt. Documenting her insanity through running.
Category: ultra running
Chasing Trail
With Caleb Olson. Writing about people and places worth reading about or doing something worth writing about.
Category: Trail running, ultra running
Coach Bennett’s Newsletter
Writing, recording and rambling about running…..and not about running. Hoping to inspire and motivate runners to cross more starting lines.
Category: general running
Community Trail Running
Its mission statement is to inform, entertain, and inclusively serve as an online extension of the trail running community. Includes both a newsletter and a podcast. With Adam Lee.
Category: trail running
Daz Z Letter
With Chris Z who used to play in hardcore-punk bands and now he writes about running. He is the founder of the independent running clothing brand Willpower. Chris just recently published his debut book called RUNHUNDRED and reveals his life-changing experience at the Western States Endurance Run.
Category: general running, ultra running
Derrick Dlouhy
Driven corporate and passionate father finding space in the margins to love running. He writes about running, business, sport, personal, health, training. All of it.
Just launched Running the Numbers on January 26, 2025.
Category: general running
Devon Yanko
Ultrarunner and marathon runner for over eighteen years. Run coach with Dark Horse Run Coaching. Ambassador for Lululemon. Aspiring homesteader and bakery owner in the mountains of Colorado.
Category: ultra running
Endurance Essentials
With Gordo Bryn. An Ultraman Hawaii Champion sharing lessons from a lifetime in sport and finance.
Category: triathlon
Endurance: Ideas + Implementation
With Daniel Rowland. Sharing research and insights from coaches, scientists and athletes to help us improve endurance performance.
Category: physiology
Experimental Endurance
With Frederic Sabater Pastor. Endurance coach at CTS Ultrarunning. Exercise Physiology PhD, runner. Writing about endurance sport, exercise science and getting faster over long distances.
Category: ultra running, trail running
Fast Women
Alison Wade covers women’s competitive running in a weekly newsletter.
Category: women’s running
Five Things Running
Every Monday, Nico Lumma publishes a newsletter with five interesting things about running.
Category: general running
Footnotes
With Sam Robinson. Exploring life on foot and the ideas that shape our movement through the world. Because to wander is to wonder.
Category: general running
Forever Runner
Herb Reeves provides twice weekly insights for older runners wanting to enjoy the running lifestyle as they age. He shares his passion for running in your 50’s, 60’s and 70’s through his own experiences.
Category: general running
Francesco Puppi
Professional trail runner. Italian male mountain runner and sky runner. World champion at 2017 World Long Distance Mountain Running Championships.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Front Pack
Scott Baldwin brings us Front Pack - the #1 Endurance Newsletter on Substack. He focuses on the week’s best news, and latest deals in endurance sports - including triathlon, cycling, and running.
Category: triathlon, general running
Fueledbylolz Newsletter
Hollie covers running, training and everything happening in the running industry.
Category: general running
Hillary’s Substack
With Hillary Allen. A professional trail runner, author, running coach and mindset coach sharing her insights on resilience, self-belief and mental toughness.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Into the Wild
With Ryan Fitzpatrick and others. Ramblings of a Pacific Northwest runner. Chatting about all things trail.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Jeff’s Substack
With Jeff Garmire. A collection of all the things coming out, going on, and interesting in his world. Also, a telling of training for the Appalachian Trail FKT. Delivered every Wednesday.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Katie Arnold
Writer, runner, lover of wild places. Brief Flashings in the Phenomenal World (2024); Running Home (2019). Leadville Trail 100 Run champion. Bylines in Outside Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal. Flow Camp retreats, speaking, teaching and more.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Kristen’s Substack
With Kristen Schindler - a distinguished trail runner, coach and writer from Tucson, Arizona, who fuses her love for the outdoors with storytelling. She is detail-driven, dog-devoted and snack-savvy.
Category: trail running
Lane 9 Project
The Lane 9 Project is an organization dedicated to supporting athletes at all levels stay with and in sport - for community, health, and whatever else it brings to life. The Lane 9 Project tackles the issues and challenges that impact an athlete’s experience in sports, including but not limited to reproductive health, eating disorders (ED), team culture, and seasons of life that challenge our ability to do what we love.
Category: physiology
Laura Green
A comedic content creator who aims to get runners and run industry folk to have a good laugh at themselves.
Category: general running
Lazy Girl Running
Everything you need to know about running, and none of the stuff you don’t. Laura Fountain writes about the tools and knowledge to guide your own training and to make choices that are right for you.
Category: women’s running
Lessons from the Long Run
Unique and detailed insights into the lessons Dan Jones is learning on his road to becoming a full-time professional athlete in the sport of trail running and ultra-marathons.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Like the Wind’s Substack
The Like the Wind Magazine is an independent magazine that explores the culture of running - on the road, track and trails. It’s why we run, not how we run.
Category: media
LuisK | Time on Trails
Luis Carlos Chacon Salas is a runner from Costa Rica now living in south of Germany. He writes about running, on the roads and on the trails and other cool stuff.
Category: road running, ultra running
Marco Altini’s Substack
The founder and developer of HRV4Training - the first app that can reliably measure heart rate variability using a phone’s camera. Marco writes about his scientific work at the intersection between health, technology and performance. He shares how he built his independent business, his personal training and his life in general.
Category: physiology
Max Auer
Max Auer writes about the power of mental skills, small moments in a trail runner’s life and the craziness of creativity.
Category: trail running
MidPack Musings
With Troy Meadows, podcaster. Telling the stories of everyday people doing extraordinary things on and off the trails. Troy curates cool trail and ultra running content.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Mountain Running and Living
Sarah Lavender Smith features personal essays with practical advice about trail running, mountain life and midlife grit. She shares training and life advice developed over 30 years as a dedicated long-distance runner and coach. More than a running newsletter, Sarah writes about leading a rustic, outdoor-oriented life in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado and using the practice of mountain running to nurture health and adventure while aging with guts as well as grace.
Category: trail running, ultra running
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Never not [thinking about] running!
With Jens Peter. A newsletter about mental health and running.
Category: general running
Next Obvious Thing
With Ali Lopez. Cook, ultra runner, yogi, writer, wanderer, eating disorder survivor.
Category: ultra running
Nitta’s running thoughts
With Michael Nitschke. Mainly running-orientated content - coaching and clinical learnings from experiences that were successful, trivial or a failure.
Out and Back
A weekly, reader-supported publication all about good storytelling, authenticity and sustainable performance development. Founded by journalist Niamh Lewis as a gap in the market to bring sportswriting and storytelling together with mindset and development information from our qualified coach columnists.
Category: general running, ultra running, trail running
Pete’s Column = (Still) On The Run!
With Pete Colaizzo. A newsletter about running in the Hudson Valley and beyond.
Category: general running
Race Ipsa Loquitur
Amelia Boone writes about things that tumble in her head that she should probably keep to herself.
Category: ultra running, trail running
Riding the Wind
Anton Krupicka’s personal Substack.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Run and Get It
With John Maynard. When running becomes more than the miles, it makes you stop and think.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Run Long Run Healthy
Brady Holmer just took over Amby Burfoot’s weekly newsletter. Follow along for the simplest, most time-effective way to follow all the best new advice about running. It summarizes the top new running articles from medical and sports science journals, and from the most-authoritative and knowledgeable writers.
Category: general running
Runners’ Highest
Curating the best contemporary running content since 2020.
Category: media
Runners Who Write
Yitka Winn creates a community at the intersection of art and athletics (imposter-syndrome-free and paywall-free forever).
Category: trail running, ultra running
Running Beluga
Jessica Lin explores new perspectives that inspire reflection, embrace nuance over simplicity, and venture beyond the perpetual noise generated by the expectations of others. A trained geophysicist, endurance sports enthusiast, proud dog mom and budding creative who thinks a lot while she runs and pores her thoughts into her writing.
Category: trail running
Running High
With Jamie Currie. A newsletter from the Highlands of Scotland about why we run.
Category: general running
Running Lightly
Mike Hahn writes about running as a practice for personal growth and transformation, and for experiencing more joy. It’s an exploration of presence, process and possibility, related through personal stories and experiences from his life in running.
Category: general running
Running Probably
A newsletter about running and fitness. Paul Flannery tries to make sense of the world through shared experiences with training, racing and simply getting out there for a run. The tagline is: real running for real people. If you run, then you’re a runner, and he hopes that you’ll join his community of passionate, supportive runners of all levels and abilities.
Category: general running
Running Relentless
Drew Morrison writes about fitness, nutrition and mindset with a focus on being relentless in our lives.
Category: general running
Running Sucks
With Raziq Rauf. Step deeper into running culture through deep-dive commentary and interviews with fascinating people.
Category: general running
Running Supply
Running’s latest drops, trending styles and what’s next in performance fashion. With Cole Townsend.
Category: marketing
Running Tales: After all is said and run
With Craig Lewis. Running Tales exists to tell the extraordinary stories of everyday runners.
Category: general running
Running Writing Living
With Alexei Sorokin. Eclectic bits of running and self-improvement. During the pandemic, running became his unbreakable habit and he improved with his marathon time. Now he writes about a journey of self-improvement, in fitness and beyond.
Category: general running
Run to Write
With Julie B. Hughes, a memoirist, mother runner and physical therapist. Her books and poetry aim to inspire readers to lean into their story of challenge with curiosity and courage.
Category: general running, ultra running
Sabrina Little
Philosopher and runner. Sometimes philosopher of running. Author of The Examined Run (OUP, 2024).
Category: general running
Scott Carlin’s Substack
Exploring Scott’s curiosity for running and sharing what he learns every week.
Category: general running
She Trails Podcast
A publication and podcast, a curation of nice things, and inspiration that celebrates female trail runners, the outdoors and movement, always. With Julia Audrain.
Category: women’s running, trail running
Stoic Running
Running as a manual for living: tips, advice and stories from 33 years on the roads and trails.
Category: general running, trail running
Storytelling Life - My Stories, Essays and Anecdotes
With Charles Zuckerman, a retired architect, ultramarathon runner, and at times, a personal trainer.
Category: ultra running
Theorizing in Motion
With Alyssa Clark. Just launched. Endurance adventurer with an ultra running problem. Mountain athlete. Uphill athlete. Coach and podcaster.
Category: ultra running, trail running
The Athletic Philosopher
With Jordan Goldstein. A deep dive into the world of sport history and philosophy with a former university professor. Learn how to live a balanced life in body, mind and spirit through applying lessons from thousands of years of athletic living.
Category: general running
The Crux
Scott Kummer writes about culture, politics, running and life.
Category: ultra running
The Endurance Journal
With Lea Bailes. Finding life through the lens of endurance sport. Essays on the peaks of life and valleys in between.
Category: general running
The Half Marathoner
With Terrell Johnson, a dad, runner and writer of the Half Marathoner newsletter.
Category: general running
The Hemming Way
Follow Tabor and Eli Hemming - professional trail runners, cattle ranchers, coaches and lifelong lovers of the mountains.
Category: trail running, ultra running
The Long Run
The written saga of running! An exploration into the mental, physical, emotional and social elements of running. With J.T.
Category: general running
The Mile
With David Guest. His simple aim is that he will entertain and inspire those who enjoy running (and maybe even those who don’t). Every two weeks there will be a new article with a mixture of inspiration, interviews, insight, news, views and more - think of it as indie magazine for the digital world.
Category: trail running, general running
The Morning Shakeout
With Mario Fraioli. A weekly newsletter about running and other worthwhile topics.
Category: general running, ultra running, trail running
The Positive Running
With Guillaume Watson. Mountain running news with a positive outlook straight to your inbox: products, initiatives, insights, events, brands, jobs.
Category: media
The Rundown
With Ashley Mateo. Because running is about so much more than just putting one foot in front of the other.
Category: general running
The Running Nerd
Nathaniel Bailey explores running gear, training, and racing with science and real-world experience.
Category: general running
The Rush of it All with Jeff Calvert
Jeff Calvert is an ultra runner and retired Army officer who writes about trailrunning and other adventures in distance and wonderment.
Category: trail running, ultra running
The Shape of It All - Breath Runner’s Substack
A new concept of running based on old ideas. It’s like running on air.
Category: general running
The Speedhiman Substack
A newsletter from elite ultra marathoner Ben Dhiman, following his training, racing and rambling mind.
Category: ultra running
The Thread
Jade Belzberg brings us a newsletter that centers on trail, mountain and ultra-running, racing, animals, nature, and everything in between. If you’re interested in what it means to train as an athlete, how to listen to your own inner voice, sharing in the joy of animals, and celebrating what it means to be an individual, then this newsletter is for you.
Category: trail running, ultra running
The Ultra Minute
Your weekly trail and ultra running update. Every week, Ken Seals delivers the latest highlights, key race results, notable stories, and must-read links.
Categories: Trail running, ultra running.
The Ultra Trail
With Jenny Tough. The long reads on recovering from eating disorder/exercise dependency, racing ultras, solo expeditions, and a few journeys in between.
Category: ultra running
Trail Diaries
With Jeff Barton. Dad, trail/ultra runner, author, orophile and aspiring recluse. Musings and essays on trail running, mental health and the outdoors. Exploring the mountains of beautiful Arizona. Creator of Runner’s Life on Medium.
Category: trail running, ultra running
Trailmix
A fortnightly newsletter that analyzes the burgeoning trail running media landscape covering the macro and the micro of the industry. With Matt Walsh.
Category: trail running, media
Trail Running NZ
With Bradley Houghton. Your weekly hit of New Zealand trail running news - results, stories, previews and everything in-between.
Category: media
Trail Snacks by Mel Mac Runs
With Mel MACFARLANE. A weekly news blast covering the fun social posts, media and movies in the trail and ultra running scene.
Category: media
Triathlonish
All the run, swim, bike news and commentary you didn't know you needed. A place for triathlon news and analysis. Well, triathlon-ish news and analysis. With Kelly O’Mara.
Category: media
Triple Threat Life
With Brittany Vermeer. Practical tips and expert insights to help you become a smarter, stronger and more successful athlete and human being.
Category: triathlon
Winds & Spikes by Jinghuan Liu Tervalon
Women-centric, BIPOC-focused running stories you might have missed elsewhere. More than running, you’ll read stories of love, grief, resilience and reinvention.
Category: women’s running, general running
Writing on Running
Peter Bromka writes stories about the emotions of running.
Category: general running
Write and Run
Practical advice about running and writing great articles online. Cal Axe writes about two things that go well together: writing and running. Both activities have made him a better person, and he is sure they will do the same for you.
Category: general running
Zach Bitter Endurance
Zach has been training and racing endurance events for over 25 years. Professionally, he competes in ultramarathons, coaches and hosts the Human Performance Outliers Podcast. On Substack, he writes about topics and questions he has received over the years.
Category: trail running, ultra running
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Jenn, thanks for keeping this list. I’m finding some really interesting ideas and reads. 💭
I just filled out the form because I’d love to add mine too!
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Thank you so much for putting this together! Would love to be included in your next addition- I write about lots of aspects of running (from both my experience as a runner and as a coach) but with an emphasis on running through perimenopause and menopause, and at any age!