The 2027 Tay Ten will take place on Sunday 2nd May 2027.
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The 2026 Tay Ten took place on Sunday 3rd May 2026.
Tay Ten 2026 results (PDF version – individual results – team results are below).
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The Tay Ten (TT) is Perth Road Runner’s open/all-comers’ ten-mile race held each spring. It starts and finishes on the athletics track at the George Duncan Athletics Arena in North Muirton, Perth. It offers a fast and flat course, ideal for anyone chasing a 10-mile PB, yet also suitable for newcomers to the distance! Ten-mile races are increasingly rare, yet remain a feature of many clubs’ standards and awards systems. Look no further than the Tay Ten!!
The TT was first run in 2014. It was preceded by the brutal Heaven & Hell Half Marathon (historic results of which appear below). The TT takes place on tarmac, asphalt and hard surfaces; it is a road race (in surface terms). Around 90% of the route avoids public roads and traffic, using paths and cycleways around the north of Perth. The course climbs just 25-30 metres total in its length. Perth parkrun runners will be familiar with the section of the course near the start and finish.
Licensing and regulations
The race is licensed by Scottish Athletics. The 2026 licence can be found here. The race thus operates under UK Athletics/Scottish Athletics regulations and policies.
Health & safety
- The race’s risk assessment is here. It is a condition of entry that runners have noted this document.
- Insurance is provided via the Scottish Athletics licence; policy details are here.
- First aid will again be provided by Active First Aid Scotland.
Race assistance
Our 2026 sponsors are:
Taylors Snacks – the Taylor family has farmed in Errol, Perthshire for around 100 years, spanning four generations. They started making crisps in 2009, in partnership with the Mackie family. Said crisps are the carbo and salt replenishment in the finish snacks.
Tunnock’s – a Scottish institution, one of the oldest family firms in the land, based in Uddingston and celebrated mostly for their Caramel Wafers and Tea Cakes. Caramel Wafers will be given out to finishers (and volunteers).
Race entry
is via Entry Central. There are no on-the-day entries and the race is full. There were 375 places available in 2026. The race is always popular with clubs from across Scotland – many of whom use the race as part of their championship/grand prix series – and typically sells out quickly (three days in 2026; getting faster every year!). Minimum entry age under SA rules is 17 years of age (an athlete celebrating their 17th birthday on race day may compete).
Inclusion
- We are keen to welcome competitors who may have physical or intellectual impairment, and have done so at our races in recent years. We also have a duty of care to all athletes and volunteers. So as to be able to assist – and manage risk – as much as possible, we do ask:
- if you have any doubt about the suitability of the event and course, and before entering, to contact us on secretary@perthroadrunners.co.uk to discuss; and
- to let us know during the entry process if you have any impairment (the Entry Central form will ask this). This also helps us to monitor our ability to help, and to improve in this area.
- We welcome runners who preferred to enter outside the standard male and female gender categories. They can do so in the Non-Binary/Other category.
Entry fees
Until (and including) the 2023 race, a medal had been given to all finishers. As the environmental footprint of such practices creates more concern, we now offer entrants the choice (on signing up) of no medal (with a lower entry fee) or a wooden medal.
Entry fees for 2026 are:
- no medal: Scottish Athletics member £13, SA non-member £16.
- with medal: SA member £18, SA non-member £21.
NB: by the date of the race, Scottish Athletics levies for SA non-members will be £3 (see here), hence the pricing differentials.
Updates
Watch this page and/or join our Facebook page.
Catering
We will be joined by Bonnie Brews to provide hot and cold drinks, cakes and snacks (for a fee: you don’t get those included in such a daftly low entry price!).
The course
The Tay Ten course change saw a slight alteration in 2024, when compared with previous editions, and the new course was again used in 2025. It will again be used in 2026. That new course can be seen here (Strava) and here (plotaroute, zoomable).
The course was re-measured by AUKCM for Scottish Athletics in January 2024 (2026 certificate here).
Water: There is one water station on the route which runners pass twice: the first time, between the 4 and 5 mile markers and again between the 7 and 8 mile markers.
Timing: Since (and including) the 2015 race, the Tay Ten had been chip timed (albeit based on gun time, ie with no start mat, for most of those races). Given the rising costs of doing so (these being invariably met by the runners) and improvements in alternative technologies, it was not chip timed in 2024. We had been trialling, testing and becoming proficient with webscorer for the last year and, like a few of our neighbour clubs, were hugely impressed by it. The 2024 and 2025 Tay Tens were timed by this method; the 2026 race will do likewise. The traditional trip-to-the-timing-van is not possible (no van!), but live ‘official’ results will be showing on a laptop screen at race HQ.
Event records and previous winners
Male: James Donald, Dundee Hawkhill Harriers, 51:54 (2024).
Female: Annabel Simpson, Fife AC, 59:21 (2019).
We’ve pulled together the overall winners, age group winners, team winners and the records for those categories in our race history table here. Results for each of the races appear below.
See here for the table of fastest-ever runs at the Tay Ten by both men and women.
Race prizes
Our prize pot increased sharply in 2024; we doubled our previous prizes and introduced age category record prizes and an Under-20 age category. These new prize levels stayed in place for 2025 and will be in force in 2026, ie:
- 1st, 2nd, 3rd prizes for male & female (£60, £50, £40 + glass mementos).
- 1st prize for first non-binary/other (£30 + glass memento).
- 1st prize for male & female teams (XC/position-based scoring system, 3 in team score; decent wine).
- 1st prize (only) for male & female age categories as below (£30 + glass mementos):
- Under-20s: aged 17-19 inclusive on the day (NB: if aged 20, athlete competes in the Senior category);
- Vets: M 40-49 and F 40-49;
- Supervets: M 50-59 and F 50-59;
- Master Vets: M 60-69 and F 60-69; and
- Vintage Vets: M 70+ and F 70+.
- All of the above categories are subject to the the proviso that the cash prize stated will only be awarded if there are a minimum of three entrants in the category (the glass memento will be awarded even to a sole category entrant). This was a rule addition in 2025.
- Course records (£50). To be 100% clear, this is all-comers (overall/absolute) records, not age group records! … but see also…
- Age category records (£30). See here immediately above for current age group records.
- Course and category record prizes will be awarded regardless of the number of entrants (if a record is broken!).
Results from previous years:
2026 (288 finishers) individual results team results press coverage
2025 (284 finishers) individual results team results press coverage
2024 (265 finishers) individual results team results press coverage
2023 (228 finishers)
2022 (237 finishers)
2019 (271 finishers)
2018 (297 finishers)
2017 (307 finishers)
2016 (270 finishers)
2015 (266 finishers)
2014 (171 finishers)
also held in 2020 and 2021 as a virtual 10K race.
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For completeness, here are the results from the Heaven & Hell Half-Marathon, prior to the launch of the Tay Ten:
2013 (106 finishers)
2012 (179 finishers)
2011 (156 finishers)
2010 (196 finishers)
2009 (192 finishers)
2008 (115 finishers)
2007 (70 finishers)
2006
2005 (114 finishers)
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