How long is hyde park run

Run a 10K or 5K in London's most iconic park, where millions of runners have smashed unforgettable training runs and races for decades. With its smooth tarmac pathways passing by the famous Serpentine Lake and legendary monuments, you'll be carried by the awe of history around you as you notch up kilometre after kilometre.

In the shadow of Buckingham Palace, Marble Arch, Wellington Arch and Knightsbridge, you'll run alongside the world-famous Park Lane and through the lush green space of this jewel of all the Royal Parks. Always a sell-out and attracting a range of runners, you'll find yourself amongst runners of a similar pace to help drive you to a brilliant race result and an unbeatable finish line feeling.

With a unique souvenir medal and post-race refreshments to help get yourself refuelled and replenished, you won't find a better value race experience in a London Royal Park.

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Course Map Course Description This is a 3 lap course. The start is located in the centre of the park in the bandstand area, this area can be used to store belongings undercover and bicycles on the railings at your own risk.

The start line is where the path from the bandstand joins the outer path. Bear right, follow Run England sign, past the orchard on the left. Go through the gate and turn immediate left; go through two bollards and then past a single bollard. When you reach the nursery building, bear right on the path and follow the path parallel to the nursery building but not immediately alongside it. Stay on the path till you are almost in front of the nursery building and then bear right onto the outer path going past large squirrel wooden statue on your right.

Stay on path heading down hill, towards gates. Bear left just before the main gates and enter the woods; bear right and take path downhill with green railings either side. Go straight ahead, stay on path and past bridge on left. Keep stream on left till you see small concrete footpath over stream. Go over stream and turn left, running back alongside the stream, keep stream on left. Run across path with bridge, which leads to valley floor. Run back towards the point where you entered the woods.

Turn right, bear right and head up path on the right. The path dips down and then comes back up again. You are then back at the start line. Run a full loop again, on your third loop just before you reach the dip in the path, turn left towards the bandstand. This is the end of the route. Facilities Toilets - are located at the back of the hall in the centre of the park and will be locked when the parkrun team leave the park. Head west, away from Marble Arch, along the cycle path.

Follow the cycle path to the right, and cross North Carriage Drive. Turn left left just before you reach Bayswater Road, along the path inside the park.

Follow the footpath, with North Carriage drive to the left and Bayswater Road to the right. Cross the road. Turn right out of the gate, and left along the pavement along Bayswater Road. Note: during daylight hours, follow the summer route inside the park instead. One mile is reached as you pass a gate to your left, opposite the Thistle Hyde Park Hotel.

Cross the Broadwalk a footpath. At the end of the railings, turn left towards Kensington Palace. After m, as you reach the wall of Hyde Park, turn right.

The two mile mark is a bricked up gateway in the wall on your left, visible because of two white stone blocks in the wall buttresses. Turn left into Hyde Park, and immediately right. Follow the footpath ahead, on the right hand side of the road South Carriage Drive.

The three mile mark is the tower block on the right hand side of the road, housing the troops at Hyde Park barracks. Follow the path to the right and turn left onto the footpath alongside the road South Carriage Drive. There is one mile to go. Stay on the footpath, and go out of the Queen Elizabeth Gate. Turn left up Park Lane for 30m. Pass the statue of Achilles on the left, and turn back into the park through the second gate. This path is called "Lovers' Walk".

The lamppost in the middle of the path marks the point where you have half a mile to go. At the Joy of Life Fountain, keep right, and go round the statue anticlockwise. Take the first path to the right. Turn right next to the cycle path. Keep straight ahead when the cycle path bends to the left, and go into Speakers' Corner.

Hyde Park has an area of acres, and Kensington Gardens around acres. Owen Barder.