Great Edinburgh Run

The Great Edinburgh Run is an annual ten-mile road running event which takes place in early October in the city centre of Edinburgh in Scotland. Part of the Great Run series of competitions, it was formerly a 10 km event, switching to the ten-mile distance in 2014.

The event was first held in 1993 under the title of the Great Caledonian Run. The race was moved from Edinburgh to the Balmoral estate in Aberdeenshire in 1998 and was hosted there for seven years as part of the Balmoral Road Races, a collection of race from 3 km to 10 km. The Caledonian run became more of a national level competition in its stint in Balmoral as the 5-mile race. The race in Balmoral was voted as the nation's most scenic run by Runner's World magazine in 2004. The competition was financially supported by Scottish Enterprise Grampian in a partnership to promote tourism in north-east Scotland, but after the BBC decided to stop televising the event the decision was made for it to return to Edinburgh in 2005. During the seven-year period that the run was not held in the city, a separate and unrelated competition was held there under the title of the Capital City Challenge 10K. The Great Edinburgh Run acquired its current title in 2006.

Since 2005 the Great Edinburgh Run has been held on a course within the city centre. Starting in Holyrood Park, runners will see a number of the city's famous landmarks such as Edinburgh Castle, Greyfriars Bobby, Scott Monument and Arthur's Seat.

The men's course record for the 10 km (28:03 minutes) was set by Martin Mathathi in 2011, while Florence Kiplagat is the women's course record holder with her time of 32:10 minutes from 2010. At the second edition in 1994, amateur runner Dave Lewis won the men's race ahead of Olympians John Treacy and Gary Staines.