Take on the Mile in Scottish Running Week – and donate, please

Wednesday 4th June 2025

Scottish Running Week is back for 2025 and happening through to Sunday 8 June.

This is the third Scottish Running Week organised by Athletics Trust Scotland (ATS), and this year we are delighted that scottishathletics is the official delivery partner.

Scottish Running Week is your chance to celebrate the impact that running, jogging, walking and pushing has on your life. By participating, and donating to Athletics Trust Scotland, you’re helping to share your passion for running and moving with groups and communities across Scotland that struggle to access our sport.

Your kind and generous donations will go directly into ATS’s Transforming Lives project, which aims to transform people’s lives through athletics and running.

Read more about how ATS’s Transforming Lives Grant Fund has supported communities and groups across Scotland.

Get Active and SMILE!

To celebrate the 2026 Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow, and the inclusion of the mile distance in the track and field programme, we’re absolutely delighted to introduce ‘Get Active and SMILE!’.

‘Get Active and SMILE‘ is our call to action for individual runners, clubs, jog groups, and anyone looking to have some fun while moving, to sign up to our event and complete your mile any time, any where, or any way they can – the more innovative and creative the better!

There are two main ways to get involved:

Individually

Enter the event on Open Track, make your donation to ATS, and receive your virtual medal! For the super-competitive amongst you, log back in once completing your mile to upload your result to be displayed on the national leaderboard.

As a Club or Jog Group

Participating members from your club or group enter the event on Open Track, make their donations to ATS, and complete their mile in as fun, social and creatively a way as possible.

Each club or group member who completes their mile, and logs back into the system and uploads their result, will contribute to the club/group overall ranking! We’ll have separate national leaderboards for clubs and jog groups.

Prizes

We’ll have prizes for the fastest times on the individual national leaderboard for male, female and age groups from Under 11 to ten-year Masters age bands. As well as prizes for the club and jog group at the top of the leaderboards. Thanks to Joma for support with prizes.

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We will also have some prizes for the most creative, social, and innovative ways of completing your Scottish Running Week miles. Make share to share your stories and social media posts with Athletics Trust Scotland and scottishathletics to showcase your activity across Scottish Running Week.

How to Enter

Firstly, you’ll need to have an Open Track account to sign up for Scottish Running Week.

Create or log in to your Open Track account.

Once you have created or logged into your Open Track account, you can enter our Get Active and SMILE event:

Enter Get Active and SMILE.

Please note: The link will be open for entries from Wednesday 7 May – Sunday 8 June 2025.

The minimum donation to Athletics Trust Scotland to enter Scottish Running Week is £5.

However, you can increase this donation to an amount of your choosing!

Your generosity is greatly appreciated and will support Athletics Trust Scotland to transform people’s lives through running and athletics.

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