About r/AdvancedRunning
In its own words:
Discussion about advanced training, racing, tactics, elite running, support, advice, and more. "Advanced" Running is NOT based on your level or race times. It's for individuals with the mindset of improving their running performance, whether they are competitive athletes, experienced runners, or enthusiasts looking to take their running to the next level. This is an actively moderated community, please review the rules/FAQ/wiki, and use the stickied Q&As for short questions/requests.
The community was created on Oct 31, 2011, which makes it 14 years old. Among the 17 communities on our running list it is number 2 by size.
What sets r/AdvancedRunning apart
r/AdvancedRunning is far more text-driven than most big subreddits: 100% of its recent posts are text posts, against a median of 17% across the Top 100. For its size it is unusually busy: about 25.0 new posts a day per million members, more than 94% of the Top 100.
What r/AdvancedRunning talks about
Looking at the titles of 78 recent posts (Oct 21–Oct 28), the words that come up most are “marathon”, “race”, “running”, “training” and “october”. Other frequent themes are dublin, experience, amsterdam, 10km, runners and runner. Recurring phrases include “dublin marathon”, “amsterdam marathon”, “general discussion” and “blanks slow-release”. By format, 100% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Open Discussion (34), Training (18), Race Report (12), General Discussion (5), Gear (4), Community Interview (1).
Activity and best time to post
r/AdvancedRunning gets about 11 new posts a day. The public archive holds 55,667 posts and 1,010,940 comments in total, about 18.2 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Tuesday (14 posts) and the quietest was Friday (8). Posting peaks around 16:00 UTC and is lowest around 05:00 UTC.
Rules of r/AdvancedRunning
The moderators of r/AdvancedRunning list 12 rules. In short:
- Follow proper Reddiquette
- Keep simple posts to appropriate subreddits
- Do not ask for or offer medical advice.
- Training Posts must contain enough background info for the community to help
- Race Reports should follow a loose format
- No results spoilers in post titles within 48 hours
- Do not offer coaching services or other advertisements/self-promotion
- Links to other media sites must be text posts with information in the body of the post
- No Memes as posts
- When submitting a thread, please flair it
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/AdvancedRunning and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How big is r/AdvancedRunning?
r/AdvancedRunning has 447,685 subscribers.
When was r/AdvancedRunning created?
r/AdvancedRunning was created on Oct 31, 2011, so it has been around for 14 years.
Is r/AdvancedRunning still active?
Yes. r/AdvancedRunning gets about 11 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 55,667 posts and 1,010,940 comments. In a sample of 78 recent posts we counted 65 different authors.
What is the best time to post in r/AdvancedRunning?
Based on post counts from Oct 22, 2026 to Oct 28, 2026, the busiest day was Tuesday and the quietest Friday, and most posts arrive around 16:00 UTC, with the fewest around 05:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What kind of posts are on r/AdvancedRunning?
The community describes itself as: “Discussion about advanced training, racing, tactics, elite running, support, advice, and more. "Advanced" Running is NOT based on your level or race times. It's for individuals with the mindset of improving their runnin…” Recent post titles often mention marathon, race, running, training and october. Most posts are text posts (100%).
Is r/AdvancedRunning SFW?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/AdvancedRunning as an 18+ (NSFW) community. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
What are the rules of r/AdvancedRunning?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/AdvancedRunning accepts text posts only. It has 12 posted rules, starting with: “Follow proper Reddiquette”; “Keep simple posts to appropriate subreddits”; “Do not ask for or offer medical advice.”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
What subreddits are similar to r/AdvancedRunning?
Communities with similar topics include r/Fitness (12.6M), r/travel (14.5M), r/CryptoCurrency (10.2M), r/Bitcoin (8.2M) and r/running (4.3M).
Stats from public data (data updated Oct 29, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Oct 30, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/AdvancedRunning.