Running club Sikhs in the City has organised the relay race to mark the centenary of the First World War as message of 'co-operation and harmony'.
And founding member Fauja Singh, who was three in 1914 when the conflict started, has encouraged others to join in the race in Redbridge.
Mr Singh, who was the world’s oldest marathon runner before his retirement last year, said:
I was only three at the time and it seems that despite the hundred years since, man still continues fighting man when there is no need'.
Man should be fighting injustice, poverty and hatred, not each other.