Royal Parks Half Marathon 2027
13.1 miles through four Royal Parks in peak autumn colour, past Buckingham Palace, Horse Guards and the Serpentine. London at its absolute best.
2027 edition completed
This record covers the 10 October 2027 edition of Royal Parks Half Marathon in Central London. This date belongs to a completed edition. The course record remains available. Course descriptions and coaching notes are archived context for this edition. Check the organiser for a future edition once its date and entry details are published.
51 weeks to race day: base season
Plenty of runway. This far out, the win is a boring, consistent base rhythm: aerobic volume, strength, technique. The structured block starts closer in; what you do now decides how high it can climb.
Building for this one? Training plans cover the sessions, the weekly shape and how the block is paced. The R.A.C.E. Framework explains why it is built that way.
Build my complete road.
Commit to the date and we will walk you to it: a countdown, honest guidance by email, and the debrief afterwards. Full adaptive training for running races is coming; nothing here pretends otherwise.
One confirmation email, then the road begins. Registering for the race itself stays with the organiser.
“The prettiest 13.1 in Britain. Ballot opens in spring; set a reminder, it is always oversubscribed.”
The race
The course
No course maps for this race. The organiser publishes no downloadable route for any leg of this race, so there is nothing to draw a course map from. Everything below comes from the official course page, checked on the date at the foot of this section.
The route was rebuilt for 2025 and the finish moved: you now finish in front of the Albert Memorial and the Royal Albert Hall rather than merely passing them near the end. Kensington Palace joins Buckingham Palace on the course, so it takes in two royal palaces. The middle runs through central London streets before returning to the parks, and Serpentine Road is the loudest stretch of the day. Event village stays in Hyde Park.
Not yet confirmed for this edition: lap count, elevation gain, cut-off times, start time. We publish these only once they are on the official course page, so check there before you pace off anything here.
Course details verified against the official Royal Parks Half Marathon course page on 14 August 2026. Courses change; the official page is always the last word.
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Photograph of Central London: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net)., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Not official race photography.
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