Race guides

Race guides: profile, cut-offs and how to train each marathon

One guide per marathon: the real shape of the course, the cut-offs exactly as the organiser publishes them, the weather with numbers, and what changes in training because you are running this race and not another. Updated when the organiser moves something.

27 September 2026 Berlin Marathon Berlin, GermanyThe fastest mass marathon course in the world, run in 2025 at 27.6 °C — the hottest edition on record. The course did not change; what has to change is the assumption people bring to it.
November 1, 2026 New York City Marathon New York, United StatesFive bridges, no climb anyone bothers to name, and a profile that looks modest right up to the moment the Queensboro empties you onto First Avenue with the crowd gone and your quads already spent.
6 December 2026 Valencia Marathon Valencia, SpainThe fastest course in Spain — and the reason people miss their target here is almost never the profile.
January 31, 2027 Miami Marathon Miami, United StatesThe only hills are bridges, and the median is still 4:40: what decides this race is not the profile, it is 80% average humidity arriving exactly at the shadeless bridge at mile 16.
April 19, 2027 Boston Marathon Boston, United StatesBoston drops 137 metres net from Hopkinton, and that drop is the trap: the slowest mile in the entire field, year after year, is mile 20 — by which point the downhill has already spent the quads.