Sunday March 16th 2025 I ran the Seoul Marathon in South Korea. Find below my full race coverage from this marathon and some tourist impressions from the very impressive city Seoul.
Seoul
I had like 2.5 days in Seoul for tourist activities and managed to see a number of landmarks including the Jogyasa Temple, Gyeongbokgung, Blue House and National Folk Museum of Korea. Seoul is for sure a very exciting place to be, heaps of possibilities for (luxury) shopping, good food and just experiencing the Korean way of life in this impressive, modern metropole. Do go visit!
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Seoul Marathon 2025
The event carried the marathon distance only and with a steep demand to document a previous sub-5 hour marathon achievement. The whole business was hampered by the website/SoMe channels and communication being essentially only-Korean and on race day, the slower runners like myself had their race “destroyed” by much-too-early road openings, thus running in open traffic, on pavements, waiting for green signals etc. This was a shame for an otherwise very nice event and marathon route, visiting many landmarks and spectacular sites in Seoul. I’ll recommend this race to all sub-5 marathoners.
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See or relive the Seoul Marathon 2025 here (and in Korean)
