OPINION - London Marathon 2025: Why does anybody bother? I think I might know why
This Sunday’s London Marathon — the 45th — could be the biggest marathon in the world, with 56,000 runners. A large number, for sure. Until you compare it to the attendant crowds, which number possibly as many as 750,000 souls. That’s a lot of people for just one race. It does make you wonder, sometimes: why does anyone bother?