Events/Ealing Half Marathon

Ealing Half Marathon

Running
Date
Sun, 27 Sept 2026
Venue
Ealing, West London, UK
Countdown
September
Distance
21.1km
Total climb
190m

Voted the UK's number one half marathon, and West London's biggest running event. 21.1km on fully closed roads through the borough of Ealing, out and back from Walpole Park on the last Sunday of September.

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The course

The route

A single undulating loop through Ealing's leafy residential streets, starting and finishing in Walpole Park. No one big climb, just around 190m of ascent accumulated across constant short rises over the 21.1km.

Weather

Late-September, Ealing

19°CTypical high
9°CTypical low
3°CColdest in 20 years
40%Days with rain

Highs around 19°C and lows around 9°C, but it has dropped to 3°C. Rain on 40% of days.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day
2025 results

Who finishes, and how

#RiderTimeAvg speed
01Alice Braham01:17:2316.4 km/h
02Caroline Williams01:20:0215.8 km/h
03Lucy Thompson01:20:3815.7 km/h
1549
Women finishers
2:11:37
Median time
9.6 km/h
Median speed
Women · 2025 results, as published by the organiser.
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Training

Training for the Ealing Half Marathon

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

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What Ealing throws at you
Typical sessions
Around 190m of climbing spread across short rises, with no flat long enough to lock into goal pace
A congested first 1-2km funnelling out of Walpole Park, where you lose 20-40 seconds and shouldn't fight it
A sustained threshold effort held anywhere from about 1h05 to 3h00
Cumulative undulation that bites hardest in the final 5km if you surged the early rises
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Long tempo, the key session: 35-50 min continuous at half marathon pace, run on rolling terrain
Progressive long run: 18-20km on undulating routes, the last 6-8km lifted to half pace on tired legs
Tempo runs of 25-40 min at threshold to build the metabolic engine
Hill strength-endurance: 6-8 x 60-90s uphill at hard effort, so the late climbing doesn't shred your legs
Not a generic schedule
Typical sessions
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
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