About PittsburghRunning.com

PittsburghRunning.com is a local running resource built and maintained by a Pittsburgh-area distance runner — not a content farm, not a national aggregator with a Pittsburgh landing page. One runner, one city, everything a Steel City runner needs in one place.

Why this site exists

Pittsburgh is a genuinely great running city — riverfront trails, serious hills, a packed race calendar, and one of the friendliest running communities anywhere. But the information about it has always been scattered: races on one platform, club schedules buried in Facebook groups, route knowledge passed around by word of mouth. This site pulls it together.

Here you'll find a live race calendar covering every 5K, 10K, half, and full marathon within 30 miles of the city, a community guide to Pittsburgh's running clubs and specialty stores, and a gear guide written for the specific demands of Pittsburgh terrain — the hills, the river-valley wind, and the winters.

Who runs it

I've been a runner for most of my life — a former competitive swimmer and track athlete who never stopped, through decades of training on Pittsburgh-area roads and trails. At 58, I finished a 100-mile ultramarathon. I've logged the North Park loops, the Squirrel Hill climbs, and the riverfront miles this site writes about, in every season Pittsburgh throws at a runner.

PittsburghRunning.com is part of a small family of running sites I build and maintain, including CalculateRun.com, a free suite of 30+ running calculators for pace, race prediction, and training zones.

Corrections and contributions

If a race is missing from the calendar, a club's schedule has changed, or a store has moved, tell us and we'll fix it — usually within a day. Reach us any time through the contact page or at info@PittsburghRunning.com.