Berlin Marathon Week 2026: shakeout runs, pop-ups and cheer zones

Torstraße in Mitte is where most of Berlin marathon week happens. Nine of the addresses below sit on that one street and the course runs through it at around kilometer 11, so you can stand in one place and watch the whole thing arrive. The rest is spread across Mitte, Kreuzberg, Neukölln, West Berlin and Tempelhof. The week runs Monday 21 to Monday 28 September 2026, with the BMW Berlin Marathon itself on Sunday 27. It opens with a coffee run at Moritzplatz on the first morning and closes with medal engraving on Rosenthaler Straße the Monday after.

Two doors opened early: The Running Clubhouse at Moritzplatz on Friday 18 and Temporary Habitat on Torstraße on Saturday 19.

Everything on one map

Every pop-up, group run, talk, after party and recovery session is on one map at marathon-weekend.com/berlin/2026, with each address, opening hours and sign-up. That page is the whole week. What follows is the shortlist.

How the week runs

Monday 21 September

The On LightSpray Tour opens at the On store in Mitte and CODE leads the first coffee run from the Running Clubhouse at 08:00. At 19:00 Common Pace starts its taper week in Neukölln and LOAD runs 7 km from the New Balance store on Münzstraße.

Tuesday 22 September

The quiet one, before the week turns. The HOKA HUB opens at Leipziger Straße 60, on kilometer 40 of the course, with a vernissage at 19:00. Film night at the Clubhouse, a nutrition talk at Common Pace.

Wednesday 23 September

The last day for real pace. Top4Running intervals from the HOKA HUB at 17:00, the Berlin Track Club tune-up at the Sony Center at 18:00, the más.mile unsanctioned race at 19:00.

Thursday 24 September

The big opening day. Brooks at three stops, Kanteen, the Center For Modern Running, Maurten, the PUMA NITRO LAB and Optimistic Runners all open. The ASICS House opens for invited guests only. The Pizza Mile Relay starts at 18:00. Kanteen’s BBQ, the Maurten film screening and a HOKA panel fill the evening.

Friday 25 September

Twelve runs, starting with SOAR’s progression run at 06:30. Zalando’s RunZone, SOAR at Rapha, the adidas Home of Fast, On x SUCUX and the Mental Athletic No Cheer Zone open. New Balance Midnight Miles runs laps from 20:00 to midnight.

Saturday 26 September

Twenty-two runs between 07:30 and 15:00, six of them at 09:00. Runna, GRIT, Ante and KRAFT Runners open. The afternoon is poster workshops and pasta.

Sunday 27 September

Race day. 13 cheer zones between kilometer 11 and kilometer 41, three of them under the U2 viaduct at Bülowstraße. Ten places to go afterwards.

Monday 28 September

Nothing starts before 10:00. Medal Monday at lululemon, PUMA and both HOKA stores. KRAFT Runners does brunch.

Seven we would not miss

HOKA HUB Berlin. 3,000 square meters on kilometer 40 of the course, with something on every day from Tuesday to the afterparty.

SOAR X BERLIN ‘26. SOAR sets up at the Rapha Clubhouse and leads its progression run on Friday morning. One of us is pacing it.

Kanteen: Pre + Post Marathon. Knees Up brings its pop-up to Kreuzberg with New Balance. We are biased, because it is where we go whenever we are in London. We are keen to see what they build for Berlin.

Mental Athletic No Cheer Zone. Mental Athletic continue their world tour, this time with BAM PRACTICE. We love an out-of-focus marathon picture taken from a weird angle.

Beinghunted. Center For Modern Running. The pop-up we would do if we ever did our own. Running, fashion and culture from people who want to evolve the space.

Berlin Braves Race Weekend. The Braves plus Nike, with their shakeout uhm shake down and the XXL afterparty.

On x SUCUX Social Hub and Coffee Shop. On and SUCUX in a copy shop next to the route. We like On, SUCUX does great pop-ups and even better coffee.

If you are running: the shakeout runs

43 group runs across five days: two on Monday, four on Wednesday, three on Thursday, twelve on Friday and twenty-two on Saturday. Most are an easy 5 km with coffee after. Six of the Saturday ones go at 09:00, so that morning you get one. Ours is Kanteen at 09:00, and it needs an RSVP. Every run, by day, on the map.

Going for tempo. The Top4Running Fly Mile on Wednesday at 17:00 is tempo intervals. The Berlin Track Club Tune Up on Wednesday at 18:00 is short intervals with the Pegasus Plus 2 to test. The SOAR progression run on Friday at 06:30 goes from 5:30 to 3:50 per km over 10 km.

Early birds. SOAR at 06:30 and LOAD at 07:00 on Friday, adidas Runners at 07:30 on Saturday.

With a bit of stardom. adidas Runners x Believe in the Run on Saturday, with Haile Gebrselassie. Meet at 07:30 at Café am Neuen See, run at 08:15, four pace groups from 5:00 to 6:30 per km, finish at the Home of Fast.

At the Brandenburg Gate for sightseeing. Team Abbott on Friday at 09:00, out and back through Tiergarten.

Around the expo. BRITA leaves the expo at Tempelhof on Saturday at 11:00 for 6 km. Shokz is on Tempelhofer Feld on Saturday at 09:00. BLACKROLL goes from the Paradestraße entrance on Friday at 15:00 with Hendrik Pfeiffer and Stephan Gerick.

Shoe testing. DNA x ASICS on Saturday at 09:00 has ASICS pairs to run in. Saucony on Saturday at 11:00 has shoes, recovery cream and race-day fuel to try.

With art. Run, Art, Run on Thursday at 17:00 goes to the Neue Nationalgalerie for Maurizio Cattelan NIGHT. HHV and HOKA on Friday at 10:30 run from the Julia Stoschek Foundation to nbb gallery.

Staying in Neukölln. Crews & Brews on Saturday at 09:00 from Isla, GEGEN x Peloton on Saturday at 09:30 with a free T-shirt.

Not a morning person. Common Pace x New Balance on Thursday at 19:00. On Friday, RUN-N-RAVE at 18:00, then HOKA and the On Run Club at 18:30.

Slept in. Midnight Runners on Saturday at 13:00, ESN and NIKE x HAVEN at 14:30, Mikkeller at 15:00. The latest start of the weekend leaves from a bar.

Three races that are not the marathon

The más.mile unsanctioned race is Wednesday at 19:00 on open roads, no closed course, at your own risk, entry by form with a result link. The Pizza Mile Relay on Thursday is teams of four, a mile each and a quarter pizza before every leg. Solo entrants get a team. New Balance Midnight Miles runs 1 km laps from 20:00 until midnight on Friday, as many as you like, with a shirt for the first 200 and free registration.

If you are watching: the 13 cheer zones

13 cheer zones on Sunday, and the U2 decides how many of them you see. The course closes roads straight across the middle of the city, so crossing it on the surface costs you the runner you came for. The U-Bahn goes under it. Torstraße at kilometer 11 and Bülowstraße at kilometer 38 sit on the same line, so a day ticket gets you your runner twice, once in the first hour and once when it hurts.

Torstraße, kilometer 11. Four zones within a few hundred meters. GRIT from 08:00 with live music and coffee, UNNA x Osprey x Arys from 08:30, the ASICS House from 09:00 with the livestream running inside, Optimistic Runners from 10:00. Brooks cheers from its pop-up at Lucy’s The Deli and On from SUCUX, both on the same street. Neither is a dedicated cheer zone, so the count stays at four. You will hear it before you see it.

Bülowstraße, kilometer 38. The loud one. Three crews under the U2 viaduct, where the noise has nowhere to go. Midnight Runners from 07:30 with drums, cowbells and whistles, then KRAFT Runners and the Berlin Braves from 09:00. Arrive early. LOAD is a few minutes further on at Son Kitchen with a DJ and food.

The last three kilometers, if you want to see the finish face. ASICS x DNA at Bottone on kilometer 39, the HOKA HUB at kilometer 40 with Refuge Worldwide on the decks until 16:00, Ante at kilometer 41, one kilometer from the line.

Earlier on the course, COROS cheers through the Clubhouse windows onto the Moritzplatz roundabout just before kilometer 15 and Saucony holds Prinzenstraße until 15:00.

Before the start there are two warm-ups at the Reichstag, Midnight Runners at 06:30 and KRAFT Runners at 07:30. If you need a sign, the COROS poster workshop is Saturday at 17:00 at the Clubhouse.

The pop-ups

Most are free to walk into, most of the runs start from one of them and half turn into a cheer zone on race day. They are listed in the order they open. Where something needs an RSVP it says so below, and dates, addresses and opening hours are on each event page.

• The Running Clubhouse. Flat Mountain Living’s pop-up with KEEN, COROS, SOAR, SAYSKY and Acid Running. An espresso bar, a basement cinema and a race-photography hang. Four crew-led 5K runs, a KEEN shoe test on Friday, a cheer zone just before kilometer 15.
• Temporary Habitat by ARYS x C2G. Houdini, Oakley, Snow Peak, norda, 66°North, UNNA, YDOT and HOKA in a store staged as Berlin in 2049. The UNNA x Osprey vest launches on Friday.
• On LightSpray Tour Berlin. Dream Run trials in the Cloudboom Strike 2, a free refuel station, a Marathon Glam Station on Friday and Saturday, the On Run Club shakeout on Friday evening.
• Common Pace Taper Week. A new independent running shop and we are excited for them to have so much going on. Three evening talks on tapering, nutrition and race-day psychology, a 5K on Tempelhofer Feld, a free cup of rice on Friday for anyone showing a race registration and a community shakeout on Saturday. Sweet!
• LOAD Neighborhood. Just opened that one. Three 7 km runs with New Balance, a get-together with focaccia on Thursday, a cheer zone at Son Kitchen on Sunday. Some of it needs an RSVP.
• HOKA HUB Berlin. Product testing and personalization, coffee by Café Tiergarten, one of our local tips. Refuge Worldwide broadcasting live, a video installation by Lucas Gutierrez and ten body-prep classes with Sol Studio. Two runs, a breakfast, the kilometer 40 cheer zone and the closing afterparty.
• Brooks Let’s Run There. Three stops. Lucy’s The Deli on Torstraße is the meeting point, with shoe testing, two community runs and a cheer zone on Sunday. The truck at the Sony Center has a prize draw and a runner gift.
• Kanteen: Pre + Post Marathon. Knees Up and New Balance in Kreuzberg. A BBQ night with a Cho Room DJ set on Thursday, a 5K shakeout with APR Mag on Saturday. Both need an RSVP.
• Beinghunted. Center For Modern Running. Part shop and part community hub, with the HHV pop-up. A Nomio panel and the Run, Art, Run to the Neue Nationalgalerie on Thursday, a CEP and Product Index workshop on Friday, a river run on Saturday.
• Maurten, The Science of Sawe. An exhibition on Sabastian Sawe’s 1:59:30 in London in April, the first official marathon under two hours. Opening and film screening on Thursday, the Mental Athletic special cover on Friday.
• PUMA NITRO LAB Race Week. A 1K treadmill challenge, customization, specialty coffee and an expo shuttle. The Another Cotton Lab release is Thursday morning. Two runs, medal engraving from Sunday afternoon. Nothing needs registration. We visited them in London and it was lovely.
• Optimistic Runners. One of Berlin’s own running fashion brands. Marathon essentials and a special print in the store, with the AW26 collection Zwischen Räumen showcased alongside. A pasta party at Remi’s Veranda on Friday, Qi Gong and a 5K on Saturday, a cheering zone outside the door on Sunday.
• ASICS House Berlin. Open to the public on Friday and Saturday afternoon, with a product showcase, customization, DJs, coffee and sushi rolls. A run each morning, a cheer zone at kilometer 11 on Sunday.
• Zalando RunZone 2.0. Free entry to three floors on the Ku’damm, with movement sessions, free gait analysis, panel talks and a fuel station. Registration is on Zalando’s event page, and the afterparty runs Sunday night.
• SOAR X BERLIN ‘26. SOAR at the Rapha Clubhouse with a limited Berlin Race Vest and its race apparel. The progression run is Friday at 06:30.
• adidas Home of Fast. Haile Gebrselassie gives his Berlin tips at 14:00, and this one is Friday only. A culture panel with Jessie Zapo, Tommie Runz, Nikki Torres and Anna Ruther follows at 15:30, around talks, customization and exhibitions. First come, first served.
• Mental Athletic No Cheer Zone. With BAM PRACTICE in Kreuzberg. Giveaways, magazines and specials, opening Friday evening. RSVP.
• On x SUCUX Social Hub and Coffee Shop. The On Run Academy post-race party lands here on Sunday. Coffee, culture and cheering the rest of the week, right next to the route, as part of the LightSpray Tour.
• Berlin Braves Race Weekend. The XXL afterparty from 22:00 on Sunday, the BTG cheer zone at Bülowstraße that morning and the Shake Down Run on Saturday. The Braves with Nike in Kreuzberg.
• Runna at Café TonTon. Free finisher portraits on Sunday, no booking. A 5K shakeout and DJ sets on Saturday.
• Vereinsfest by GRIT. All-you-can-eat pasta and tattoos on Saturday, with live music and race gear. A cheer zone at the storefront on Sunday.
• Ante, A Study in Motion. The first FW26 release, with screenprinting by Lefty Studio Berlin on Saturday, at UDL by Highsnobiety. A cheering zone at kilometer 41 on Sunday, then Weekend Club.
• KRAFT Runners Heimspiel. Recovery on the dance floor at Ritter Butzke on Sunday night. The Hype Shop on Saturday, a warm-up at the Reichstag and a cheering zone on Sunday, brunch on Monday.
• Midnight Runners Race Week. Four stops with lululemon. A shakeout in Neukölln on Saturday, a race-morning warm-up at the Reichstag, the kilometer 38 cheering zone, a recovery hangout in Prenzlauer Berg.

One more is closed to the public. The WHOOP x ANTI Marathon Club House on Brunnenstraße is invite only on Friday and Saturday, with a short public window between 17:00 and 19:00 on Saturday.

Off your feet

Ten talks, films and workshops, six of them at 19:00. Common Pace runs one a night from Monday, on tapering, then nutrition, then race-day psychology, all free. The Clubhouse basement has the Running Film Festival on Tuesday, the “I Don’t Think...” premiere on Thursday and its runner panel on Saturday, with the race-photography hang up all week. The HOKA panel with Isaac Kimeli and Essi Tesfom is Thursday evening and needs registration. The Nomio panel runs Thursday afternoon at the Center For Modern Running.

Openings and afterparties

The week has an opening most nights from Tuesday. The HOKA vernissage on Tuesday has an open bar and DJ Lakuti. Thursday is Maurten’s film screening, Kanteen’s BBQ night with Cho Room and focaccia at LOAD. Friday is the Remi x Optimistic Runners pasta party and the Mental Athletic opening.

Sunday has ten places to go. It starts at 13:00 on Torstraße with the On Running Academy post-race party and ends at 02:00 in two rooms. The HOKA HUB afterparty has Palms Trax at 21:30 and entry by waitlist. The Berlin Braves XXL afterparty on Revaler Straße is good people and bad decisions in the hosts’ own words. In between, Temry & Friends hold AMANO Eastside until 22:00 and KRAFT Runners put the recovery on a dance floor at Ritter Butzke, which is the most Berlin answer to a marathon. Mikkeller gives 10% off with a medal. The rest of Sunday night is on the map.

Recovery and Medal Monday

Sunday afternoon is two floors of spa and movement at the ANTI Marathon Recovery House, recovery boots at the Clubhouse, free finisher portraits at Café TonTon with no booking, plus reformer stretching and red light with Midnight Runners in Prenzlauer Berg. PUMA engraves medals from 13:00. If your legs need it the day before, Stapelstein and BLACKROLL run an hour of rolling and stretching on Saturday.

Monday is Medal Monday. Free engraving at lululemon on Rosenthaler Straße from 11:00, HOKA celebrating finishers on the Ku’damm and in Mitte, then KRAFT Runners doing brunch at KORNER.

Everything else is on the map

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