← All eventsBerlin Marathon
The flattest Abbott Major and the world-record course, starting and finishing at the Brandenburg Gate. The largest marathon in the world (54,280 finishers in 2024) and the best PB opportunity in marathoning. Next date ~26 Sep 2027 (approximate, last Sunday of September — confirm against the official site).
The flattest and fastest of the Abbott Majors, and the course where the marathon world record keeps falling. A pancake-flat loop through central Berlin, starting and finishing under the Brandenburg Gate.
It is also the largest marathon on earth. 54,280 finishers in 2024, four waves streaming out of Straße des 17. Juni on the last Sunday of September.
There is nothing here to beat you but yourself. No hills, no landmarks to pace by, just a fast, featureless course. Hold an even split, stay focused through the wall, and this is where personal bests are set.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Berlin Marathon for you?
- Runners chasing a personal best. If you are going to break your time anywhere on earth, a flat, smooth, cool late-September course is the place to do it.
- Disciplined pacers. The flat profile tempts an overfast start, so it rewards runners who lock onto an even split and refuse to chase the adrenaline.
- Strong aerobic engines. With no hills to hide behind, raw weekly mileage and marathon-pace endurance decide the day.
- Runners who can hold focus solo. There are no climbs to break the rhythm, so you carry the pace by internal discipline over a featureless course.
Training plan for Berlin Marathon
A training plan for Berlin Marathon isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- Dead flat, roughly 30m of climbing all day: no hills to break the rhythm or force a change of pace
- A fast, featureless course that tempts an overfast start, made worse by big-race adrenaline off the four-wave line
- The wall from around 30km, where even, fuelled pacing is your only defence
- Pace held by internal discipline rather than landmarks, for the full 42.195km
- Marathon-pace long runs of 30 to 34km with 15 to 20km at goal pace, fuelled exactly as on race day
- Solo even-pace runs of 12 to 16km, run alone with no group and no markers, to a strict even split
- Long tempo of 40 to 60 minutes continuous at marathon pace
- Threshold intervals, 3 to 4 x 3km with 90s recovery, to lift the aerobic ceiling
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
