Contemplative
21.1 km
5:45 /km
Seine both banks.
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Paris, France·Europe·April
Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris
City, mostly flat, monumental.
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- Official distance
- 42.195 km
- Elevation gain
- +130m
- Mindful tempo
- 5:15 /km — luminous
- Character
- City, mostly flat, monumental
Champs-Élysées start, Bois de Boulogne finish — a river-threaded route past every postcard of the city.
Because the streets themselves have carried footsteps for centuries — you are joining a very long relay, not starting a new one.
Let the Seine do the pacing; do not chase the bridges.
Course
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42.195 km loop
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Elevation profile
+130 m gainPeak 130 m · 42.195 km
Elevation profile: total gain 130 metres, peak 130 m above start, low 0 m.A rolling profile — mid-race climbs ask for shorter strides, not harder efforts.
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Race Day
Practical & atmospheric notes
Kind shoulder-season conditions — mild mornings, arm-sleeves off by kilometre eight for most runners.
A warm regional start — clubs in matching kit, coffee vans, a local mayor with a microphone. Human-scale and unhurried.
Steady, generous local support along the main boulevards and finish straight; genuine strangers-turned-friends handing out orange slices in the suburbs.
A quieter stretch usually opens up between km 17 and km 23 — an interior mile to return to yourself before the final push.
Sealed city tarmac — closed to traffic on race day
Rolling road profile — handcycles handle it with pacing help. Suitable for sturdy strollers on the flatter first and last thirds; expect a couple of longer gradients in the middle.
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Recovery
Luxembourg Gardens walk, café crème, no phone.
Along the line
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Soul-Tuned Variations
One race, three ways to run it.
Recovery echo
6 km
6:30 /km
Canal Saint-Martin.
Stronger
42.195 km
4:25 /km
Even pace, closed roads.
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