London Marathon course from above: downhill early, flat after (3D flyover)

The whole London Marathon course in four minutes, flown from about 3 km up over real satellite imagery, with four drops to street height where the course makes its case: Cutty Sark, Tower Bridge and halfway on The Highway, Canary Wharf, and the Embankment past Big Ben into The Mall. It opens on the whole course from over Blackheath, and it ends over Hyde Park looking back along everything you have just run. London finishes 36.3 m lower than it starts: 41.4 m above the sea on Blackheath, 5.1 m on The Mall. It spends 35.4 m of that inside the first 10 km, and from Greenwich to the finish it never rises above 11.2 m. It climbs 42.4 m in a whole marathon, where Berlin climbs 35.9 m. Start and finish sit 10.7 km apart, 25% of the race against a 50% limit, and it drops 0.86 m a kilometre against a 1 m limit. Sabastian Sawe ran 1:59:30 here in April 2026. Chapters 0:00 The whole course, and the start on Blackheath 0:28 West along the river to Greenwich 0:42 Cutty Sark 1:04 Deptford, Surrey Quays and Rotherhithe 1:24 Tower Bridge, and halfway 1:52 Limehouse and the Isle of Dogs 2:12 Canary Wharf 2:36 Back west on The Highway, past the Tower 3:00 The Embankment, Big Ben and The Mall 3:30 The finish, and the whole city behind it The course, its elevation profile and planning your trip to race weekend: https://www.marathontrip.com/races/lo... Course: the London Marathon route (Red start), walked from the organiser's own 2026 road-closure information onto OpenStreetMap streets (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL). This is an independent film and is not made, approved or endorsed by the London Marathon or its organisers. Imagery: Google Earth. Imagery providers: Airbus, Vexcel Imaging US, Inc., Data SIO, NOAA, U.S. Navy, NGA, GEBCO, Landsat / Copernicus. Elevation: Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DTM, 1 m. Contains Environment Agency information © Environment Agency and/or database right.