Edinburgh 24

01/08/2024

Should we bring Edinburgh 24 back in 2025?
A) hell yeah!
B) ram it!

27/03/2020

In light of the government guidance on Monday23rd around Covid-19 (Coronavirus), we have taken the difficult decision to postpone Edinburgh 24 until summer 2021.

This decision hasn't been taken lightly but due to the current government advice to stay indoors we feel like this is the correct and responsible course of action. Even after the period of lockdown we would expect some sensible restrictions on movement and the continuation of social distancing for a period of time.

Our community of racers, suppliers, staff and volunteers (and by extension their families) are incredibly important to us so we therefore feel that we have a duty to ensure your health and wellbeing. By postponing the event we also hope to reduce the impact on the emergency services and incredible NHS staff (some of whom work or volunteer part time for us).

Edinburgh 24's 24 hour Event Village doesn't allow us to practice social distancing with runners coming through the enclosed Event Village, in some cases, twice an hour and race crews, suppliers and staff/volunteers congregating in that area to cheer on runners for the duration of the event. There would understandably be areas of congestion at the start and finish of the race, camping area, car park and participant marquee. Whilst there are some steps that we could take to mitigate the risk for this event we're not able to reduce this to a satisfactory level.

We have updated our cancellation policy which can be accessed in the FAQs on the event page: https://www.breakingstrain.co.uk/edinburgh-24/ As this is an enforced change, we've tried to make our cancellation policy as flexible as possible:
1. In the first instance, all entrants will automatically be moved across to the new event in Summer 2021. By transferring to the new event you guarantee entry in 2021.
2. If the new date, when announced, is not suitable then participants can either transfer their place across to a replacement runner (arrange transfer of fees at a personal level) or ask for a 100% refund from BSE. This must be done within 30 days of the new event date being announced. The new event date will be announced in the autumn 2020.
3. Participants can request a 100% refund at the point of being notified of the 2020 event postponement. We understand that these are financially unstable times and people are in different financial situations.
4. Participants can request a credit note so their entry fee can be used against any of our activities for the next 18 months. eg. this can be used to enter other UK-based events or as part payment for one of our overseas treks. In this instance you will be removed from the race roster and a credit note applied to your account.

As a company (of one full time employee), we've been hit pretty hard by Covid-19 (like most small businesses/self-employed). In addition to having to cancel our own events, we've lost a couple of contracts for events where we were subcontracting at as they've also been cancelled and our sign ups to our overseas treks have understandably dried up. Ultimately though there are far bigger fish to fry than a race at the moment.

I'd like to thank you for your patience and understanding and thanks for supporting the event and Breaking Strain Events.

Any questions, give me a shout on [email protected]

Cheers

Lee

03/01/2020

Entries are now open:

Race, challenge, trek and event management, Scotland

06/12/2019

The date for the next Edinburgh 24 race will be 11-12 July 2020. Entries will open on Friday 3rd January at 1800 hours.

09/10/2019

Hi guys,

Just an update on the 2020 Edinburgh 24 event date. We're still waiting on confirmation of when Royal Week is at Holyrood next year as this has a direct impact on the event. When the Palace confirms this we'll get the event date out asap.

Hope you're all well

Cheers

Lee

06/08/2019

Who doesn't love a night run? Putting on your hedge torch and dodging trees in the dark.

We have just opened registration for our Flash Mob Run 10K race, the evening of Friday 25th October. You will of course get an awesome medal and t-shirt as per all our events.

Come along and join us. Sign up on our website: https://www.breakingstrain.co.uk/flash-mob-run/

17/07/2019

Here is a third batch from Stephen Fruzynski - thanks Stephen!

17/07/2019

Here are another batch of great photos taken by Stephen Fruzynski from the BSE crew.

17/07/2019

Some more photos from on the day taken by BSE crew member Stephen. More to come shortly.

If you want to share any of your photos with us all, please do!

15/07/2019

Now that the dust has settled and you have hopefully all had some rest we would like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone for coming along and taking part. It was only year two , but we doubled numbers from last year. It was great seeing you all there.

A big congratulations to all our winners:

6 hour
1st female: Lindsay Burnett 59.30km
1st male: Florent Hives (overall solo winner) 59.30km
1st team: Gilbert Sicherman 66.43km

12 hour
1st female: Petra Knops 93.21km (overall solo winner)
1st male: Andy McCreadie 90.08km
1st team: Bootcampers 142.25km

24 hour
1st female: Joanna Murphy 197.81km
1st male: Marek Sabadasz (overall solo winner) 197.81km
1st team: 24 hour party people 275.63km

All results can be found here: bit.ly/Edinburgh24

Hope to see you all again next year!

14/07/2019

Here is the link to the official photos taken at the start of Edinburgh 24 by Alan Watson

https://alan--allsportaction.smugmug.com/Pic-Special-Edinburgh-24/

What an amazing 24 hours! It was a great turn out and we want to thank you all for taking part in all of the races.

So who is up for next year?! 😂

This gallery hosted by SmugMug; your photos look better here.

11/07/2019

If you haven't seen this yet on our main page then here it is...the soundtrack to your Edinburgh 24! 🎉🎉🎉

A playlist featuring 2 Unlimited, Queen, The Spencer Davis Group, and others