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On 5 September 1982, the Edinburgh Festival Marathon was the first mass marathon event to be held in the city. [1] Starting in Holyrood Park and running through the Grassmarket and down Lothian Road, along Princes Street and down into Leith, along to Cramond and along the coast back through Silverknowes to Leith, up Easter Road and finishing in Meadowbank Stadium.
Meadows Marathon Date 1st Sunday in March Location Edinburgh, Scotland Event type Circuit Distance Marathon, Half marathon, 10K, 5K Established 2007 Official site www.meadowsmarathon.org.uk The Meadows Marathon is a non-profit annual charity marathon, half marathon, 10K and 5K. It is held annually on the first Sunday of March at The Meadows in Edinburgh. It is the largest event organised by ...
In 2022, Edinburgh was ... The Water of Leith Walkway is a mixed-use trail that follows the course of the ... The city also organises a half-marathon, as ...
In October 2022, she set a new course record at the Loch Ness 10k. [8] She ran a half marathon personal best of 1:11.18 in Copenhagen in September 2023. [9] She won the Inverness half marathon in March 2024 and set the fastest women's time in the 39-year history of the race, running 1:11:47 breaking the previous record set by Natasha Phillips. [10]
World Athletics Label Road Races are races that World Athletics (until 2019: IAAF) designates as the "leading road races around the world." [1] The classification was first introduced for the 2008 running season, upon the suggestion of the IAAF Road Running Commission. [2]
The Big Half is an annual road running event over the half marathon distance (21.1 km), held in central London, United Kingdom.The event, first held in 2018, initially took place in early March, a few weeks before the London Marathon, but after the COVID-19 pandemic switched to dates in late August/early September.
The Great Birmingham Run is an annual half marathon road running event held in Birmingham, UK in October. Formerly known as the Birmingham Half Marathon, from 2011 it became part of the Great Run series of road races. [1] Established in 2008, it incorporated the 2009 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. [1]
He was the second man to break 2:10 in the marathon; he set world records at four other distances, and laid claim to the marathon world record. [nb 1] He ran two Olympic Marathons (Tokyo 1964 and Munich 1972), and achieved a personal marathon record of 2:09:28. [4] In 1970, Hill won the 74th Boston Marathon in a course record 2: