Anyone getting ready to run the London Marathon needs to read this post! It’s everything I wish I’d known in advance to have the best day possible for a number of our RTTF athletes. Even as a running coach there were lessons to be learned and each race is a little different. The London marathon course in particular has some really key points to know!
Luckily, I was able to cheer at many spots along the course and then talk in-depth with folks who finished for the first time as well as those who have run it for a number of years.
Hopefully these few key pieces to help make life easier. Once you start to realize how long it takes to train for a marathon, I hope you’ve started looking at the right plan!
Going in to London, there are a lot of questions about logistics for the start, the finish and everything in between! It turns out many of you have the same questions, so while I can still remember all the details I thought I would share some answers and some London marathon course tips to help you out.
London Marathon Tips
As one of the Abbott World Marathon Majors the course hasn’t changed since 1981! That’s pretty incredible.
Now that we’re all excited, let’s dive in to some overall tip sand then course specifics!
With any race, I have a few standard…
