10 Mile & Other Distances

The catch-all: distances that sit outside the standard metric set. Principally 5 and 10 mile races, which never quite disappeared from the British club calendar, plus the occasional 7 miler, 15K and 3K community run.

The 10 miler in particular is one of the most useful races there is. It is long enough to be a genuine half-marathon predictor and short enough to race off an ordinary week of training, with none of the block-building a half or marathon demands.

A large proportion of these are club races rather than commercial events, which shows in both directions: cheaper and friendlier, and considerably less published. Where a start time or an elevation figure has never appeared anywhere, the race page says so rather than inventing one.

Verus lists 670 other distance races across 4 countries, 595 of them still to come. Race guides are researched by hand from the organiser's own material; directory listings link straight out to the organiser. Either way, every page says plainly where a fact hasn't been published rather than inventing one.