Westminster

London Marathon have called for GoodGymers to support with some course marshal support for those participants who drop behind the 8 hour pace car and need to be guided on the pavements just off the closed road route.

In particular, they are looking for pairs of marshals to cover mile marker locations to offer directional, tracking and welfare support to these participants.

These would be in the form of a mile marker to hold (as the structure used for the closed road window of the event will be removed after 8hrs), a bib scanning device that captures their number and time going past each mile marker, and water/snacks to hand out.

With the event aiming to be the 'most inclusive marathon in the world' and looking likely to also be a world record number of starters on Sun 27th , they envisage around 150 participants completing at least half their event behind the 8 hour pace car.

The current plan is for marshals to meet at St. James's Gardens, Limehouse (short walk from Limehouse station) for 15:00 on Sun 27th to be briefed, collect event kit to wear then either walk into positions or jump in one of their minibuses following the 8 hour pace car to then be dropped into positions ranging from Mile 14 onwards to then start greeting and scanning post-8hr pavement participants until the 10.5hr pace walkers pass by and stand them down, which would be at times ranging from 17:30-22:00.

If interested please contact Joff on joff.charters@londonmarathonevents.co.uk.