← All eventsMainova Frankfurt Marathon
Flat, fast German city marathon (only ~28m height difference) with an iconic finish inside the Festhalle on a red carpet. The 3rd-fastest city race worldwide and the fastest of the big German marathons. Next date ~24 Oct 2027 (approximate, last Sunday of October — confirm on the official site).
One of the flattest, fastest marathons on earth. Just 28m of height difference across 42.195km through Frankfurt, along both banks of the river Main. A course built for one thing: a personal best.
The signature is the finish. You run off the street, through the doors of the Festhalle, and onto a floodlit red carpet in front of a roaring indoor crowd. One of road running's iconic finishes.
Flat and fast is a gift and a trap. With no hills to blame, your time is a straight read-out of fitness and pacing. Go out even, hold the Mainzer Landstrasse straight, and the PB is yours.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2024 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Mainova Frankfurt Marathon for you?
- Runners chasing a marathon PB. With no climbing to cost you time, a flat course rewards raw fitness and clean pacing directly.
- Disciplined pacers. The race is decided on the Mainzer Landstrasse straight from 30km, so it favours runners who hold even splits instead of banking time in the skyline.
- High-mileage aerobic runners. Flat-course times are built on weekly volume and long runs, not hill strength.
- Runners who can fuel on the move. At two and a half hours or more, holding 60 to 90g of carbs an hour is what stops the fade at 30km.
Training plan for Mainova Frankfurt Marathon
A training plan for Mainova Frankfurt 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.
- 42.195km with almost no elevation: nowhere to hide, so every second lost is a pacing error, not the terrain
- A fast, crowd-lined skyline start that tempts you to over-run the first 15km
- The exposed western loop out to Höchst and long return straights, where a headwind costs real time
- Late-October German autumn: often cool and ideal for speed, but with genuine rain and wind risk
- Marathon-pace long runs up to 32km, with 16 to 18km at goal pace, fuelled exactly as on race day
- Progressive long runs that finish the last 8 to 10km at marathon pace, so you can run fast on tired legs
- Long tempo of 40 to 60 minutes continuous at marathon pace, to lock in an even, metronomic rhythm
- Mid-week medium-long runs of 14 to 18km easy, building volume without breaking you
- 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
