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The Great Edinburgh Run is an annual 10-kilometre 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 attracts top level runners and also features a 5K race for fun runners.〔(Great Edinburgh Run ). Great Run. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 The event was first held in 1993 under the title of the Great Caledonian Run.〔Gillon, Doug (1993-10-02). (Martin at head of the capital show ). ''Herald Scotland''. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 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.〔Roden, Alan (2005-01-20). (Road race gets set to run back to Capital ). ''Scotsman''. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 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.〔(Bupa Great Caledonian is voted most scenic run ). Bupa (2004-01-28). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 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.〔Smith, Graeme (2004-08-18). (End of road for Balmoral races as BBC pulls out ). ''Herald Scotland''. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 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''.〔Mooney, Chris (2004-09-13). (Capital city challenge 2004 ). ''Scotsman''. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 The Great Edinburgh Run acquired its current title in 2006.〔Edwards, Gareth (2006-05-08). (Runners reign supreme in drizzle ). ''Scotsman''. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 Since 2005 the Great Edinburgh Run has been held on a course within the city centre. The course has a double-looped format and starts in Holyrood Park. The route heads southwards through the park for the first two kilometres then heads north, passing The Pleasance before heading west at Cowgate. Just after the halfway point it enters The Meadows and loops back northwards, going across the George IV Bridge. It passes through the grounds of Edinburgh Castle and the route turns eastwards at the National Gallery of Scotland. The finish point is near Holyrood Palace.〔(10K Course ). Great Edinburgh Run. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 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.〔Martin, David (2011-10-02). (Mathathi clocks course record in Edinburgh 10Km ). IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 At the second edition in 1994, amateur runner Dave Lewis won the men's race ahead of Olympians John Treacy and Gary Staines.〔( Lewis runs away with capital title ). ''Herald Scotland'' (1994-10-03). Retrieved on 2011-10-02.〕 ==Past winners== Key: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Edinburgh Run」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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