It is unquestionably a day like no other. On marathon morning, dawn breaks crisply over the capital but the city doesn’t so much wake as sparkle into life. Away from the tourist-goers and money-makers of the regular weekday hustle-and-bustle, this is the day that London truly comes alive.
Starting in Blackheath and winding through the city’s east before finishing on the historic Mall, 59,000 people take on the 26.2-mile challenge of a lifetime. The estimates are that for 93,000 energy gels consumed, £100m will be raised for charitable causes. And at every juncture, stories that touch the soul heroically stroll by.
