Run the iconic Tan Track and support mental health!
Join elite athletes, celebrities, emergency service workers and schools as they run The Tan and raise funds and awareness for local mental health charities.
When you visit Melbourne it is a must that you either walk, jog or run Melbourne’s iconic ‘Tan Track’ around the beautiful Botanic Gardens.
The Tan Track is located around the perimeter of the beautiful Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne, Australia. The Tan Track is 3.827km long with distance markers every 250m and is fully floodlit from 5am until midnight each day. It is suitable for runners of all abilities and comprises of a gravel track except for a bitumen footpath along Anderson Street.
The mission of RUN THE TAN is to:
- Promote a healthy & active lifestyle for ALL Australians and raise awareness of the positive impact that running and exercise have on Mental Health and well-being.
- Promote our great City of Melbourne and its iconic Tan Track as well as providing a ‘central source of truth’ of all official recorded run times around the Tan (including the All-time Top 10 and Top 100 fastest times for men and women) and other interesting statistics;
- Celebrate the amazing times that our own Australian athletes and other international athletes have achieved around The Tan and how they compare to our sporting idols in other sporting codes such as AFL and Soccer; and
- Promote and raise awareness of some of the great athletic organisations and running groups in Melbourne, whom you can find training at the famous Tan Track.