RACE TRAFFIC:   Leg 1    Hampton Court  to  Staines

Apart from cycles, traffic cannot follow runners along the tow-path from Hampton Court. Instead it is follow A308 west towards Staines.

To get straight to end of leg. Follow A308 to Staines. Follow main road through and around town centre. Turn right at T-junction (Thames Lodge Hotel in front of you). You can park in 1) the River Carpark on your left or, 2) follow road for 400 metres. Turn right, at traffic lights, into Bridge Street and  immediately left into Bridge Carpark.

To support runners. Follow A308 for 1.2 miles to lights at waterworks. Take left (Lower Sunbury Road) through Sunbury. At junction of A244, go straight over roundabout onto B375 (runners emerge from the left 0.2 miles later). At the next roundabout cars can follow the runners left to Shepperton Old Village. In centre of village (at 6.5 miles) do not follow runners to river - there's no through road. Instead continue to T-junction and left along B375 to Chertsey Bridge. Just before bridge turn right onto narrow road along river (runner will come from left). Two miles later cars have to go left to Laleham. At T-junction, turn right through Laleham Village, then right at mini roundabout, along B376, to Staines. Entering Staines you pass under rail bridge  (runners will be on towpath on left), You can park in 1) the River Carpark on your left or, 2) follow road on around for 400 metres, turn right, at traffic lights into Bridge Street and then immediately left into Bridge Carpark