Edinburgh Fixtures Diary
Over the last 20 years we have become an integral part of the running scene/community not only in Edinburgh and the East of Scotland, but also throughout Scotland. We have developed strong links with all the local running clubs and work in partnership with them on numerous events.
We are also a sponsorship partner with Scottish Athletics, the co-ordinating body for athletics in Scotland, by virtue of our sponsorship of the twice yearly fixture list, the much sought after definitive guide to all running events in Scotland which can be picked up instore in a printed booklet or viewed online at www.scottishathletics.org.uk
We are involved with small grassroots club events that cater for a few hundred runners like the Penicuilk 10k, Edinburgh athletic club's “Scottish Gas Races“ and the iconic Black Rock 5 beach race at Kinghorn in Fife. Also the larger mass participation events like the Edinburgh Marathon Festival, Edinburgh Half Marathon, and the Baxters Loch Ness Festival of Running. We also support and help organise Scotland's two longest single-day endurance running events, the Self Transcendence 100Km road race, and the 95-mile West Highland Way Trail Race.
Run and Become also support and help with the popular Sri Chinmoy summer race series held in the Meadows, Edinburgh. These events have become something of an institution and over the past 25 years thousands of runners have used these races as "serious fun" on Wednesday evenings during the summer. For further details visit uk.SriChinmoyRaces.org.
After the slight dip in road races over the deep dark winter weeks, mid February sees the return of regular road races with plenty to choose from:
Every Saturday, 9.30am, Silverknowes Esplanade, Edinburgh
Free weekly 5km run. Whatever your age or standard, whether you are aiming for international selection or just need one less excuse to get out there and do something, use Park Runs as a full on time trial, a tempo/threshold run. A comeback race, a social run and blether or as an introduction to simple competition. The Edinburgh Park Run team will make you welcome,whatever your goal is.
Website: www.parkrun.org.uk/edinburgh/home
16/05/2012 7.30pm, Silverknowes, Edinburgh
One of the summer series of races which the Run and Become team help to organise. Flat course alongside the shores of the Firth of Forth. It is again one of the Scottish Athletics road race Grand Prix events and incorporates the Scottish 5km road race championships. The 2011 event featured some of the fastest 5k road times in Scotland at the sharp end, but in addition many personal bests were set throughout the field.
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Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
19/05/2012 Durness Sutherland
Part of the week-long Cape Wrath Challenge, which features a week of events in this beautiful remote corner of Scotland. The week includes a road half marathon, a trail run, a multi-terrain run, a beach run, and the full marathon. You can enter the whole week of events or just pick and choose which ones you want to enter. The marathon has been measured by a UKA course measurer and has a unique feature in that it features a ferry crossing!
Website: www.capewrathchallenge.co.uk
23/05/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
27/05/2012 Edinburgh and East Lothian
Scotland’s largest marathon, and the flagship event of the weekend long Edinburgh Marathon Festival which also includes a half marathon, 5k, 10k and the
EMF marathon team relay, together with junior races and a Saturday breakfast run. A Runners World survey in 2008 ranked it as the fastest course in the UK. There are now dual starts to cope with the ever increasing numbers. After early miles in the city, the route heads out along the coast through Portobello, Musselburgh Prestonpans and Port Seton. After a short loop in the scenic grounds of Gosford House, the route returns to finish in Pinkie Park at Musselburgh. For 2012 they have reorganised the whole finish and reunion area, to solve some of the problems of 2011.
Website: www.edinburgh-marathon.com
30/05/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
10/06/2012 9:00am, Comrie, Perthshire
New race for 2012 organised by the local club Strathearn Harriers. This, like the Lochaber Marathon, should be one for marathon connoisseurs! If road running is your thing, why wouldn’t you want to go and run an event in beautiful scenic Strathearn in Perthshire? The profile looks like this will be a challenging undulating (rather than hilly), one loop course, but you will be running through such beautiful place names like Glen Artney, Drumchork wood and the River Earn valley with fabulous views at times across to the Ochils to the south, and the Perthshire hills to the north and west. The Harriers with their Famous Grouse 10k in July and the Comrie Hills relay in September, have built a good reputation for race organisation, with good solid events in the “organised by runners... for runners” tradition. You can be sure that whatever your goals or standard, you will have a great experience.
Website: www.strathearnharriers.org.uk
10/06/2012 11am, Mabie Forest
Mabie Forest is situated 4 miles south of Dumfries, off the A710. Parking and refreshments will be available at Mabie Forest, which also offers superb facilities for mountain biking, forest walks and picnics. The race is entirely in the confines of the forest and the course is on forest track. Entry fees are £13 (unattached) and £11 (SAL/UKA)
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13/06/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
16/06/2012
Trail-running in glorious scenery, with views across the sea to Arran, Islay and Jura Hill paths, forest tracks and beaches. Yummy refreshments at village halls along the way. Choice of 36, 45 or 67 miles. Friday evening: discussion "Barefoot Running - Fact or Fad?" Saturday evening: "Runners Revels" meal and ceilidh with live band.
Website: www.kintyrewayrelay.co.uk
17/06/2012 Edinburgh
One of the most unusual and challenging events in Scotland. A 14-mile circuit of the 7 hills of the Capital city, starting and finishing in the city centre on Calton Hill. Sounds simple enough but there are no marshals, only a recommended route to follow, and checkpoints at the summit of each hill. From around March until race day, groups of runners are to be seen checking out the route and figuring out for themselves just what is the optimum shortest (legal) route to take. Runners have the choice of tackling the RACE or the CHALLENGE which starts slightly earlier. It is a multi terrain urban-orienteering event.
Website: www.seven-hills.org.uk
20/06/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
27/06/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
04/07/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
11/07/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
18/07/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
25/07/2012 7.15pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
01/09/2012 Aberfeldy, Perthshire
Another new event for 2012, which will feature a two-lap course, from Aberfeldy to Kenmore, at the eastern end of Loch Tay. Capitalising again on some breathtaking scenery, there will also be a half marathon.
Website: www.highlandperthshiremarathon.co.uk
01/09/2012 or 07/09/2012, Cooper Park, Elgin
Like Lochaber, an event that was started in the first mass marathon boom of the early 1980s. While many events have come and gone, this will be the 30th running of this event. It starts in Elgin and takes in one large beautiful loop of the Moray countryside. It meanders out to the coast at Burghhead through quiet country roads, flanked in September by acres and acres of fields either awaiting harvest or recently harvested. A stretch along the coast to Lossiemouth and its picturesque harbour and beaches before returning inland on more quiet country roads to Cooper Park in Elgin. It has grown to include a half marathon which starts at Gordounstoun School near half way and a 10km event which starts close to the 20 mile mark. A unique feature of the event is that to co-ordinate all mile markers, they appear in reverse order, as miles “to go” rather than miles covered – i.e. if you are running the marathon, the first mile mark you see is after 385 yards, when a sign says 26 miles to go, and so on.
Website: www.moraymarathon.com
05/09/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
12/09/2012 7pm, The Meadows, Edinburgh
Enjoy the simple, relaxed atmosphere of the Self Transcendence summer race series. Our well established summer race series takes place on a flat accurately measured one mile loop and are perfect for that mid-week speed session or as an opportunity to try a 1 or 2 mile race. All standards are welcome and the emphasis is very much on taking part and having fun! Entry fee £2 - No pre-registration – all entries on the night. Changing and registration from 6.30pm at the Pavilion, Jawbone Walk (off Melville Drive). Simple changing rooms available, come ready to run if you can.
Website: uk.srichinmoyraces.org/races/edinburgh
30/09/2012 Inverness
2012 will be the 11th running of the event. It is Scotland’s second largest marathon and is run on a point-to-point course on the south side of Loch Ness, from just beyond Whitebridge into Inverness. Runners are bussed to the start. Taking in open moorland, forests and of course the world famous Loch, this has to rank as one of the most scenic and beautiful courses and start locations in Great Britain. Although several thousand runners come together on the weekend in the capital of the highlands, to tackle not just the marathon but the concurrent 5km and 10km events, the organisers have managed to establish a family feel about the event.
Website: www.lochnessmarathon.com