May 14, 2026 · 54 min · 27 segments
Elise and Alice get together to debrief all things Copenhagen Marathon, including the perfect conditions, incredible vibes, some fuelling trials and tribulations, and a surprise encounter with Jakob…
Honestly, if anyone out there has the opportunity to do it, super, super good race.
There were these people on stilts in these outrageous kind of commedia dell'arte costumes.
That is actually so wholesome because the photo that I saw of you directly post-race, I have never seen someone looked more s- genuinely stoked.
Like, you see people after a marathon, they're kind of exhausted and they've got, like, a bit of a...
And do you think you particularly liked it because of your history with the city or do you think objectively it's just a marathon that slaps?
So I reckon when I lived here 12 years ago, it had, like, 8,000 people running it, and it was much more low-key, and I think they've been building it year, and year, and year.
It's just they've just gone that extra mile, and you can just really feel that, and I think the city has also embraced it.
And because Copenhagen is such a biking, pedestrian city, like, literally the, um, one of the urban planners who was kind of responsible for making the streets the way they are today by slowly [laughs] removing car parks and making one-way roads through the city center so people couldn't drive cars in, it just really lends itself to being a great spectator city for a marathon.
And because you're running on these roads where there's, like, cool architecture, uh, there are a couple of really nice bridges.
There are a couple of, like, narrower points where the crowd can come in really close, so it's a bit Tour de France-ish-
Honestly, if anyone out there has the opportunity to do it, super, super good race.
There were these people on stilts in these outrageous kind of commedia dell'arte costumes.
That is actually so wholesome because the photo that I saw of you directly post-race, I have never seen someone looked more s- genuinely stoked.
Like, you see people after a marathon, they're kind of exhausted and they've got, like, a bit of a...
And do you think you particularly liked it because of your history with the city or do you think objectively it's just a marathon that slaps?
So I reckon when I lived here 12 years ago, it had, like, 8,000 people running it, and it was much more low-key, and I think they've been building it year, and year, and year.
It's just they've just gone that extra mile, and you can just really feel that, and I think the city has also embraced it.
And because Copenhagen is such a biking, pedestrian city, like, literally the, um, one of the urban planners who was kind of responsible for making the streets the way they are today by slowly [laughs] removing car parks and making one-way roads through the city center so people couldn't drive cars in, it just really lends itself to being a great spectator city for a marathon.
And because you're running on these roads where there's, like, cool architecture, uh, there are a couple of really nice bridges.
There are a couple of, like, narrower points where the crowd can come in really close, so it's a bit Tour de France-ish-
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