An incredible 1.25 million bottles of water and Lucozade are stockpiled in a warehouse on the Kent coast. That’s over 200 tonnes of drinks forklift operators are stacking to the rafters. In the early hours of Race Day, TNT fleet of vehicles will converge on London in an operation requiring military-style precision, moving every single bottle out of the warehouse and on to the course some 50 miles away.

It’s a race for TNT too as they have a narrow window of just 90 minutes to get all 26 on-course feed stations set up, the drinks in situ and vehicles out of the way. It’s a well-drilled relay team that achieves this, with 25 people involved in the warehouse operations and more than 80 helping with the delivery operation on Race Day. Or maybe it’s more like a decathlon? For TNT, the marathon is a multi-discipline event. At another warehouse, TNT are already collating more than 738,000 individual items - from nutritional bars to foil blankets, energy restoring drinks to those much sought after finisher's medals. Over 37,000 finisher bags are being prepared.