When you’ve invested months training for a marathon it can be disheartening when the weather intervenes on race day to make life harder for you. That’s one reason most major marathons are scheduled for spring and autumn, when milder conditions are more likely—and, at the moment, mild conditions are what runners are forecast to enjoy at the London Marathon 2024.
I’m running the London Marathon this year and my maranoia has meant that I’ve been checking the forecast for over a week and conditions have been improving day by day. Early on it looked set to be quite hot, and while the wind forecast was weak, it was going to be a headwind for long stretches of the race.
