It’s only day two of our running blog but we have been overwhelmed by your responses. Thank you, and keep them coming! Today we want to turn the tables and get you to do some of the work. We’d like to build a virtual library of useful links, handy sites, fascinating blogs and online resources – but we need your help. We have shared some of ours below to kick off, but we want to know your favourites. Share in the comments, or if your list is too long, you can tell us by email. You can also tweet us – @katehelencarter or @adharanand.

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As well as a runner, I’m an athletics fan, and the hub of the virtual running world is letsrun.com. While the site is low-tech, collating athletics news stories, Drudge-like, from around the world, it’s also opinionated and investigative. Its discussion boards are infamously fierce, but incredibly thorough.

Spikes mag is a more light-hearted, colourful take on athletics. I like that, too.

I don’t often do podcasts, but if I ever get time, Marathon Talk usually has some interesting topics on the go, with some well informed and practical advice for runners of all levels. Some great guests, too.

Man On A Mission from jamieleedalton on Vimeo.

Kenyan running is poorly serviced on the internet, but there have been some great documentaries recently that can still be found online. Man On A Mission was my favourite, but I’m looking forward to The Unknown Runner making the light of day at some point.

Then there are the bloggers. Running and blogging are not everyone’s idea of a match made in heaven, as blogger David Bradford points out, but some of the ones I’ve found myself returning to include tonireavis.com, simonfreeman.co.uk, japanrunningnews.blogspot.co.uk, and The Science of Sport.

And if you’re ever looking for a race, the place to start is the Runner’s World events calendar.

My favourites

I’m not a big follower of running blogs (perhaps you can change my mind by finding some good ones for me?) but I freely confess to a love of gadgetry and spreadsheets, so barely a day goes by when I’m not uploading my runs to Garmin Connect (note to self: get a life). I also like Endomondo – the app is a good backup when I’ve forgotten my GPS watch and want to track distance, and it can also pull in data straight from my Garmin to the site, then share it to the irritation and bemusement of my Facebook friends.

Perhaps it’s just my really poor maths, but I also quite regularly check pace calculators such as the one at coolrunning.com, so I can work out what pace I’d need to do to beat a PB over a certain distance.

Race time predictors (like this one from Runners World) are also quite interesting if you are just starting out with a 5k and idly wondering what that might mean you could do a longer distance in. Not everyone will find them accurate, of course, but they all use an equation devised by Pete Riegel, a research engineer and marathoner in the 90s, and it does seem to more or less hold true. In case you are interested, it’s T2 = T1 x (D2/D1)1.06 where T1 is the given time, D1 is the given distance, D2 is the distance to predict a time for, and T2 is the calculated time for D2. There, now you’ll be able to do it even if your internet connection is down.

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