London Marathon 2025

Try get into the gym and do some work on your core. If your doing a few 10ks a week maybe substitute one for a gym session. Get into a marathon plan in the new year. 2 runs and 2 or 3 gym sessions before Xmas will set you up well when you're starting the marathon program in the new year. I hardly know a person who came out of the ballot so you've been very lucky

Hey Trampas, did you get in?

Got confirmation I’m in for London gfa

Someone was telling me to try and stay somewhere handy to get to Charing Cross station as first station on train line to start.

After that it’s really what you want. Mind try air bnb place as I don’t be eating hotel breakfast. Bagels for me when racing

Training going well, I am following a 16 week plan. I have started noticing my legs getting stronger and heart rate dropping both of which are positives.

I've a few social engagements that derail me, so it's important that the other weeks go to plan.

Hotel prices are crazy this year, when compared with previous year's I've run it.

£300 for a Travelodge!

Going ok. Fitness coming back. Hard to get souls to come out for part of a long run. It’s years since I’ve done a spring marathon. Seems to be very few half’s around to do as part of seeing where you are.

It was a couple of minutes from Tower Bridge, the Sunday night is £100 and the Monday is £55. Surge pricing!

So I have decided to skip this marathon! Unfortunately getting to the 40k is just too much for my poor hips/legs right now! I have tried a plan but going past 25k is very difficult. Not to mention changing circumstances (The stork this summer), I think I have to perhaps come back later to this idea!

I'll happily sell my place at cost to someone if interested. I also have a double room booked in a hotel from 25-27 April in Southwark for 190. Can cancel that but if it would also like this.

Definitely, the last week of training was the most difficult and probably the only one I haven't enjoyed.

Too many competing priorities, kids on midterm, busy period in work and the weather meant I had my lowest mileage week so far.

Hoping to put it back on track this week. This will be half way of my 16 week plan.

I’m still doing it but I’ve got Achilles bursitis. So it’ll be enjoy myself and go on feel than trying to do a pb. Will go again next year as my time is 90 seconds improvement on my time I got in doing gfa for this year. I’m Friday into London city and back Monday via Heathrow

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/25/revealed-secret-plans-for-two-day-london-marathon-with-100000-runners

Looks like it might be slightly easier to get an entry for London next year if these proposals get the go ahead.

Don’t agree with it but really depends on how they run it. Will elites be split over two days males one day and female the next? It would have to be the same for championship entries that it be run on the same day. Maybe one day for charities and selfies people and other day for gfa and championship entries and some charities

Pink 9:36 starting wave for me

Very envious of you all running London this year. Such a fantastic race and experience.

Word of advice for meeting other runners last year. My friend and I agreed to meet at letter V, as we presumed it would be less crowded.

It was a very long walk down to that meeting point. Go for an earlier letter. It's pretty easy to spot people at each letter