Organiser Jill Scott said it was the largest field for many years.
"We had an amazing turnout total of 384 finishers - 229 10km runners, 113 10km walkers, 22 6km walkers and 20 junior runners," she said.
The race was first held as a 6-mile (10km) handicap race from Alexandra to Clyde on September 5, 1953, with almost 50 runners competing.
The next time it was held was in 1969, and only for Alexandra Athletics club members. Murray Ball won in 34min 10sec.
In 1971, the event was opened to other clubs and Harold Genge, of Dunedin, was first home in 30min 22sec.
The race course was converted to a metric 9650 metres in 1973.
In 1978, Euan Robertson, of Dunedin, who had just come back from the Commonwealth Games at Edmonton, won in a record time of 28min 47sec. There were 209 competitors in that race.
In September 1981, the new road built to Clyde allowed the event to become a full 10,000m race, but a September snowfall that year prevented more than 100 runners taking part.
Women were allowed to run 10km in 1982 after previously being "advised" to enter the shorter distance of 5800m. The Alexandra event was the first in Otago to be opened to women and resulted in a record field of 457 runners.
The Alexandra club was also one of the first clubs in the country to introduce the use of digital stop watches for the timing of the event, in 1980.
Recreational walkers joined the event in 1994.
Mrs Scott said one Dunedin runner, Margaret Knox, who first ran when she was 12, before returning as an adult to race, now brought her children to race, too.
