Training plans for famous UK running races
TERUN doesn't build a separate plan per race — it builds one sized to the distance, paced from your own running data, and periodized to your start date.
Whether it's a Great Run 10K, your local parkrun or the Great North Run itself, the training principle is the same: pick the plan for your race's distance below, and TERUN fills in the paces, the build-up and the taper from your current fitness.
5K
- Race for Life — multiple UK cities, 5K or 10K, in aid of Cancer Research UK.
- Standard Chartered Great City Race — London, an evening 5K through the City, July.
- Great Edinburgh Run 5K — Edinburgh.
- Great Welsh Run 5K — Cardiff.
- Southampton ABP Great South 5K — Southampton.
- Bath Half-weekend — parkrun-linked 5K side races, Bath.
- parkrun — a UK-wide, free, weekly 5K held every Saturday at hundreds of locations; not a single annual event, but the country's biggest 5K phenomenon by total participation.
All of these are a straight match for the adaptive training plan — there's no separate 5K page, so set 5K as your goal distance there.
10K
- Bupa Great Manchester Run — Manchester, May.
- Great Scottish Run — Glasgow, alongside the half marathon, October.
- Great Birmingham Run — Birmingham.
- Bristol 10K — Bristol, May.
- Vitality London 10,000 — London, May.
- Great Welsh Run — Cardiff.
- Great Yorkshire Run — Sheffield, September.
- Great Edinburgh Run — Edinburgh.
- Cheltenham 10K — Cheltenham.
- Chester 10K — Chester.
- Fleet Half & 10K-weekend — the 10K side race, Hampshire.
- Nike 10K London — London.
- Cardiff 10K — Cardiff.
- Leeds 10K — Leeds.
- Norwich 10K — Norwich.
- Liverpool Rock 'n' Roll 10K — Liverpool.
- York 10K — York.
- Cambridge 10K (Cambridge Town & Gown 10K) — Cambridge.
- Oxford Town & Gown 10K — Oxford.
- Southampton ABP Great South 10K — Southampton.
The 10K training plan is built for exactly this: short and intense, with paces that have to be right.
10 mile
- Great South Run — Portsmouth, October, one of the UK's oldest 10-mile road races.
- Cabbage Patch 10 — Twickenham, November.
There's no dedicated 10-mile page; use the adaptive training plan and set 10 mile as your distance.
Half marathon (with 5K/10K support races)
- Great North Run — Newcastle–South Shields, the world's largest half marathon, with Junior and Mini 10K support races.
- Reading Half-weekend — Reading, with a 10K support race.
- Fleet Half & 10K-weekend — Hampshire.
- Bath Half-weekend — Bath, with parkrun-linked 5K side races.
- Great Scottish Run — Glasgow, half marathon plus 10K, October.
Going for the half? The half marathon training plan is built for that. Starting with the shorter support race instead, use the plans above.
Other well-known distances & race series
- Men's Health Survival of the Fittest / Tough Mudder — obstacle-course events run in multiple UK cities, roughly 10K-length.
Same principle, every distance. TERUN doesn't look at your race's name — it looks at your own pace and heart-rate data and how much time is left until your start date. Pick the plan closest to your race's distance and it periodizes toward it automatically.
More countries
Racing outside the UK? See the same kind of guide for famous US races, famous Canadian races, famous Australian races, famous German races, famous Spanish races or famous Italian races.