Seoul Marathon

After registration closed, AHOTU Vivan quickly organized a WeChat group for Chinese runners. In the group, we frequently communicated about the Seoul Marathon, which gave us plenty of information about the event. At the race packet pickup, AHOTU prepared many stickers for us and even helped look after our luggage, which was very thoughtful. The 2025 Seoul Marathon course was flat, the temperature was low, and the people of Seoul were enthusiastic. Thanks to all these factors, I was able to achieve a personal best (PB) on race day.

【Recommended marathon in Asia】 【亚洲范围内比较推荐的全马赛事】 【アジアでおすすめマラソン大会】 简约的赛事风格让人专注于体验跑步和挑战自我，在赛道上可以清晰感受到周围人的认真坚持。

首尔马拉松赛累计爬升大约100米，下降大约120米，上下坡都是缓坡，所以上坡不算太费力，下坡可以借到力，整体接近于平坦赛道，转弯没有掉头弯，高速赛道无疑，3月16日的天气也很给力，阴天5-7度的温度，差不多是最佳PB气候条件，我也不太费力，顺利PB了2分36秒。 ahotu中文微信群组的群主Vivian一直耐心仔细地给跑友提供了特别多帮助和支持，非常感谢！很愿意也肯定会再次使用ahotu的报名系统报名参加参加世界各地的赛事。

24年报名后因故没有参赛，今年终于如愿以偿体验到亚洲最快赛道，希望明年继续参赛。

It was amazing experience. I was in Seoul city during Seoul Marathon 2013. At that time, I was not a runner. However I got motivation to run and I had a dream to run Seoul Marathon. 11 years later, I did it. So I am so thankful.

The route of Seoul Marathon was amazing. I loved it.

nice route for getting a new PB but water stations every 5km was too far for runners. They should arrange every 3 or 4 km for each station or include water at every cooling foam stations

It was a very good experience for this competition!

Great. Perfect weather conditions. Even though I thought I would get frozen in the beginning. I was about 7 degree. In the end it turned out to be simply perfect for a very fast time.

I made out of "nothing" my personal best. It's true, it's a very fast track.

This is my first time runing marathon in Korea. And for the first impression this is a great experienced. Great route and very positive vibes from Korean along the way. its too bit cold because a windy day but overall its nice to run in Seoul. I'll definitly back to Seoul Marathon next year.

Great route, I love the route with city view

it was my first time running a marathon in cold weather, it was around 10C however feels like 0C, the waiting time for the marathon was the cold moment, during the run you don't feel it, except one part that it was like a really open road, and it was windy, it's a very flat run, and the scenario of the city of Seoul is great, good vibes of the runners costumes, smiles, not many in the crowd but super positive crowd, over all, I love it,

Very nice road, easy to run, not many up and downs, well organized, not too crowded, overall very positive experience

It was a gret experience and the track was great and perfect for PB！ There are a lot of people registered and it;s a little crowded .

It was not a great experience because nothing was said in English, totally local although we were 3,000 athletes overseas. Not even just good morning and welcome! I’m disappointed. The organisation is not brilliant. When we cross the finish line nobody give to runners a thermal blanket like in the rest of the world. Japan is more well organised.

My garmin gave me a little more distance.

A good event with a nice crowd around some part of the circuit, fun and cheerful !! Fairly flat road, it helps when you don't have a great preparation or can go for a PB. The portion above Jamsil bridge is nice for the view. This year weather was nice apart from some cold gust of wind. The organization seems good as for the race. I don't have enough experience to really ascertain it but drinks, snacks and sponges were available in quantity and at many areas along the race ! Only negative point is that they failed the race pack with the sizing. Many people ends up with the wrong size (One size down) of T-shirts and we couldn't exchange it at the race pack collection site !!!

First time for me... I wish the legs would have let me go the whole distance to get close to 4h/4h10mn but it was difficult after 30k, too much weight to carry ^^ Still finished it at a very slow jog/walk...

There were barely any spectators, probably because COVID-19 was just easing up. The temperature was around 1°C at flag-off. The first 25KM was mundane, as we looped around Eulji-ro and Jongno. The route also brought us through Cheonggyecheon Stream – nothing much and it was a fairly squeezy one lane route. The remaining 17KM was scenic, as we ran across Seoul. It is also a very flat route so good for PBs There were barely any portable toilets on route, which was terrible considering how cold it was. Every portable toilet had long queues, so I kept passing them until I saw one public. slightly off-route. Overall I still enjoyed the Seoul Marathon and I would highly recommend. Will be back! (Check out my full review below) https://www.instagram.com/p/C3HZKn4RTTz/?img_index=1

well organized. Not crowd. Fast track. Cool

good support. cheerful. good race