The Parisian running competitions in 2014

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It is always a great pleasure to run on the Parisian roadway freed of cars, to be able to run on the avenue of the Opera or at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, to go down the Champs Elysées running the first kilometer of the marathon...

As every year now, we propose the 2014 list of the Parisian competitions, all those which take place in Paris.

Some explanations:
. For each competition of the list, you will find icons on which you can click to obtain either links on sites relative to the race, or the photos, or the movies or route of the race. Photos and movies date 2013 or previous years (on certain photos, you can recognize our Paris Running Tour runners). Thanks to the photographers and the film-makers!

. Some of the routes result from our GPS watches (less precise in the less wide streets).
. 10 km=6.376 mi, half-marathon 21.1 km=13.195 mi, marathon 42.195 km=26.2 mi

Here are samples of the icons on which you can click to see photos, movies, routes, web sites...

Icon to go on the site of the race's organizer

Icon to go on the Top Chrono site to register on the race or see the results, etc.

Icon to see photos of the race

Icon to see a movie of the race

Icon to see a representation of the route of the race (drawn or GPS track)

Do not hesitate to click!

. Besides, "prt" means that the competition is a part of the Paris 10 km challenge, challenge in which we participate (the Paris Running Tour challenge which tooks the same name as our sightjogging company!).

We wish you a very happy New Year and many beautiful competitions!

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Sunday 19/1/14 - 9:30 AM - Les 10 km du 14è - 10 km   prt

The first competition of the year which find the runners impatient to rerun after the holidays. A flat circuit convenient to the performance... 1148 finishers in 2013.
("14è" means "quatorzième arrondissement" = Fourteenth arrondissement = 14th Paris administrative district)

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Sunday 26/1/14 - 9:30 AM - Les Foulées du 8è - 10 km   prt

A little hilly race in the beautiful district of the 8th arrondissement with a start "Church" Saint-Augustin, passage in front of the Parc Monceau, strides avenue of Friedland with the Arc de Triomphe in sights and an arrival to the feet of Joan of Arc! Nearly 1200 finishers in 2013.
("Les Foulées du 8è" means "the Strides of the 8th arrondissement")

Saturday 15/2/14 - 10:30 AM - La Course de la Saint Valentin - 10 km   prt

This year, the race will take place in the "parc de la Villette", though we can expect a route more flat than the previous years (5 buckles in the hilly "parc des Buttes Chaumont"). Very good atmosphere for this race organized by the Paris Front Runners. Diversity, tolerance and heat, in spite of the cold of February! 334 finishers in 2013.
("La Course de la Saint Valentin" means the race of the Valentine Day)

Sunday 2/3/14 - 10:00 AM - Semi-Marathon de Paris - 21,1 km

The "SEMI-MARATHON de Paris"! International race. Half of a marathon to visit the East of Paris: Wood of Vincennes, Avenue Daumesnil, "Quai des Célestins", "Hôtel de Ville", Bastille, Faubourg Saint-Antoine... About 25,000 finishers.

Saturday 22/3/2014 - 2:00 PM - Foulées du Tertre - 10 km   prt

A folk and "mountainous" race on the mound Montmartre. Route passing in front of the Sacred Heart and the "place du Tertre", and through the sloping streets of the "commune" of Montmartre. All this in the middle of the afternoon and tourists! 598 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 6/4/2014 - 8:45 AM - Le Marathon de Paris - 42,195 km

The MARATHON OF PARIS! The event of the year for many runners. A beautiful visit of the capital! Go down the "Champs Elysées" (Careful, not too fast, it is only the beginning), cross the "place de la Concorde", go along street of Rivoli and pass in front of the "Palais Royal" and the Louvre, greet the Genius of the Bastille, join the Castle and the Wood of Vincennes, return and join the West by way of the river Seine banks and admire the Conciergerie, then the Eiffel Tower, join Roland Garros' courts, discover the very green Wood of Boulogne and cross the finishing line on the avenue Foch with the Arc de Triomphe in front of you! Phew! What a beautiful stroll! 38 690 finishers in 2013. Bibs for 2014 = 46,000 ! Among the elite, Kenenisa Bekele, 5 000 m and 10 000 m world champion, who will run in Paris his first marathon.

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Sunday 27/4/2014 - 10:00 AM - 10km du Bois de Boulogne - 10 km   prt

After the Paris marathon, back to the "Bois de Boulogne" (wood of Boulogne) for a flat 10K in the middle of the greenery (able to do some performances only three weeks after the marathon?). 3047 finishers in 2013

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Sunday 11/5/2014 - 9:30 AM - 10:30 AM - Courir ensemble - 5 km & 10 km   prt

Everything is in the title: "Run together", valid and disabled. A very good atmosphere. Event organized by Handicap International. Among the numerous proposed races, a flat 10K, again in the Wood of Boulogne, magnificent in May! 1133 finishers for the 10K in 2013.

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Sunday 1/6/20147 - 9:00 AM - Les 10 km du 19è - 10 km   prt

A beautiful "arrondissement" race. Even if it is hilly because of the passage by the Buttes Chaumont, it is a very competitive race. It is a pity this year, it happens at the same day as the "Courir Ensemble" 10K. How to choose? 779 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 15/6/2014 - 10:00 AM - 10 km L'Équipe - 10 km

Race organized by ASO who also manages half marathon and marathon of Paris. Under the banner of the sports newspaper "L'Equipe". Route running in the beautiful places, the avenues and the boulevards of the east of Paris. 13 924 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 22/6/2014 - 9:45 AM - Les Foulées du 12è - 10 km   prt

In June and in July, it is, this time, in the other Wood of Paris that take place the competitions: the race of the Castle, the "foulées du 12ème" as well as the "Foulées France des Iles" take place in the very beautiful Wood of Vincennes. This race takes place in the Wood of Vincennes and ends in a place formerly famous, the stadium of the Cipale velodrome. It was of use to the Olympics of 1900 and 1924 as well as to the Tour de France from 1967 till 1974. This 10 km refreshes the stadium with beautiful performances. 829 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 29/6/2014 - 10:00 AM - La Course du Château de Vincennes - 10 km   prt

The "Course du Château" starts and returns to the magnificent Castle of Vincennes, with arrival in the Castle on a red carpet! Route flat and convenient to the performance. 3634 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 6/7/2014 - 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM - Foulées France des Iles - 5 km & 10 km   prt

It is summer! With these Strides, find the festive atmosphere of French Antilles (Punch on arrival!). In spite of the heat of July, Wood of Vincennes shaded paths as well as a flat route allow a good speed. 1270 finishers for the 10 km in 2013.

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Sunday 14/9/2014 - 9:45 AM - La Parisienne - 6,7 km

It became a very classical race, "The Parisian (Lady)", a race exclusively reserved for the women, a beautiful feast around the Eiffel Tower. 35 183 ladies in 2013.

Sunday 28/9/2014 - 9:00 AM - Les courses du Luxembourg - 10 km   prt

Quartier Latin, Saint-Germain district near the "Jardin du Luxembourg". A nice route around the Jardin du Luxembourg. 1005 finishers in 2013.

Sunday 28/9/2014 - 10:00 AM - Paris-Versailles - 16 km

One of the most famous races. Start at the Eiffel Tower and arrival in front of the Palace of Versailles with in the middle, the famous "Côte des gardes": going up hill for about 2 km... 21 565 finishers in 2013.

Sunday 5/10/2014 - 10:00 AM - Les 10 km Paris Centre - 10 km   prt

Magnificent race in particular for the places which it crosses. Start avenue of the Opera, with the beautiful Garnier Opera in front of the Start, crossing street of Rivoli, in front of the Bourse (former stock exchange building), Place Vendôme and the arrival, Palais Royal place in front of the Louvre. Flat route. 5673 finishers in 2013.

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Sunday 12/10/2014 - 10:00 AM - Les 20 km de Paris - 20 km

Another big international race. Start on the bridge of Iéna in front of the Eiffel Tower, to begin: a small ascent to the Trocadéro, after, running in the Wood of Boulogne and then the right bank of the Seine up to the "Pont Royal" (Royal bridge) and return left bank to the finish at the Eiffel Tower. 23 865 finishers in 2013

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Sunday 19/10/2014 - 9:30 AM - La corrida du 15è (Corrida=race) - 10 km   prt

Another nice "arrondissement" race. A very flat 10K. 1050 finishers in 2013.

Sunday 16/11/2014 - 9:00 AM - Les 10 km du 9è - 10 km   prt

A race with some up-hill parts (street of Clichy, street of the Martyrs), passage in front of "Notre-Dame de Lorette" Church, the "Trinité" Church and at the heart of little Parisian streets of the 9th arrondissement. 635 finishers in 2013.

Sunday 23/11/2014 - 10:15 AM - Les boucles du 17è - 10 km   prt

A race to explore the streets of the 17th arrondissement of Paris. A not really flat 10K but all the same competitive. 1268 finishers in 2013.

MARCH
Sunday 23/3/2014 - 10:00 AM - Les Foulées de l'Assurance - 10 km
Saturday 29 et Sunday 30/3/2014 - - Eco-trail de Paris (St-Quentin-en-Yvelines => Tour Eiffel) - 18 km, 30 km, 50 km, 80 km
MAY
Sunday 4/5/2014 - 10:30 AM - Les foulées de l'hôpital Saint-Louis - 4 & 8 km
Sunday 11/5/2014 - 9:15 AM - Les 10 km de l'Arnogend - 10 km
Sunday 18/5/2014 - 9:30 AM - La Pyréenne du 20è - 10 km
Sunday 18/5/2014 - 8:00 AM - Paris Saint-Germain La Course - 20 km
JUNE
Sunday 22/6/2014 - 9:00 AM - La Soli'run - 6 km & 10 km
SEPTEMBER
Sunday 21/9/2014 - 9:15 AM - Les chasseurs de temps - 7, 17 & 21,1 km
Sunday 28/9/2013 - 9:45 AM - La course du dodo - 6,5 km
Sunday 28/9/2013 - 9:15 AM - 9:30 AM - La course du souffle - 5 km & 10 km
OCTOBER
Sunday 5/10/2014 - 9:15 AM - Odyssea - 10 km
Sunday 19/10/2014 - 11:00 AM - Les foulées de la Solidarité - 10 km
Sunday 26/10/2014 - 10:00 AM - Semi-marathon de Vincennes et des bords de Marne - 21,1 km
NOVEMBER
Sunday 2/11/2014 - ? - L'Ekiden de Paris - 42,195 km
Tuesday 11/11/2014 - 10:00 AM - Les Bacchantes - 8 km
DECEMBER
Sunday 7/12/2014 - 10:30 AM - La Piedthone - 10 km
Sunday 14/12/2014 - 8:30 AM - Courir pour le plaisir - 10 km

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If you want to make a competition in Paris and if you reserve a tour with us, tell us and we can show you the route and help you to prepare the race (the Paris Marathon, for example). Need advice for these races? Ask us! Of course, if you do not want to participate in a competition and want to enjoy completely a touristic jogging, we are there.
We like the competition and running but we like Paris just as much!

Doing competitions, workouts, touristic jogging (with us ;) ), trail or even on treadmills, whatever, we wish you to take a lot of pleasure by running! Happy new year! Enjoy 2014!

2014!

A big Running Tour of 18 miles (29 km) with Alina, one thousand discoveries in Paris!

Alina - Running in the "Jardin des Plantes" (Garden of the Plants)

9:05 AM - Alina, from New York, in the midst of preparations for a marathon, wished to visit Paris but fully respecting her training plan. 
This day, a long run was planned: we ran 18 miles (29 kilometers)... Ideal to see Paris!

Paris is vast and rich in interesting places.
What do we see in Paris by running on a long distance?

Water: the Ourcq Canal, the Saint Martin Canal, the "Bassin de l'Arsenal", the river Seine...

The river Seine

squares: the "Place de la République", the "Place des Vosges", the "Place de la Bastille", the "Place de la Contrescarpe", the "Place de l'Alma", the "Place de la Concorde", ...

"Place de la Concorde"

museums: the National Museum of Natural History, the Army Museum (Invalides), the Rodin Museum, the Guimet Museum, the Galleria Palace, the Palace of Tokyo, the Museum of Modern Art, the "Petit" and "Grand Palais", the "Jeu de Paume", the "Orangerie", the Louvre, the Grévin Museum, the Orsay Museum...

bridges: the Bridge of Austerlitz, the Bridge of Carrousel, the Royal Bridge, the Bridge of "la Concorde", the Alexandre III Bridge, the Bir Hakeim Bridge, the Bridge of "l'Alma", the Bridge of Arts...

the "Pont des Arts" (in the background, the Museum of the Louvre)

famous boulevards and avenues, numerous statues, splendid monuments, secular churches, beautiful covered passages...

parks and gardens: the "Buttes Chaumont", the garden of Luxembourg, the "Champ de Mars", the gardens of the Trocadéro, the "cours de La Reine", the garden of the Tuileries, the garden of the Plants where we greeted some animals:

Alina and the Stegosaurus of the garden of the Plants

Alina and the Mammoth of the garden of the Plants

and of course the "Tour Eiffel"!

Paris is beautiful and has so many amazing aspects!

Merci Alina !

The route of the big tour:

Two sports tours in Paris with Rosalie

Rosalie - Medici Fountain - Luxembourg garden

9:04 AM - With Rosalie, who comes from the beautiful city of Quebec, we made two visits of Paris by running.

An important mist covered Paris the first day, making buildings and monuments hardly visible:

Rosalie - The dome of the Invalides can slightly be seen

Where are the towers of Notre-Dame, usually visible since the bank?
The Musée d'Orsay getting free of the mist (in the right of the photo)

And there, what is this monument which is in the background of the photo?

Yes!... The Eiffel Tower which we find a little farther, a little less veiled:

On our way, we admired a work of Dubuffet, installed for the occasion of the FIAC :

Rosalie - "Petit Palais" - Welcome Parade, of Jean Dubuffet - 2008

and a little bit further west, the beautiful Galliera palace, the Paris Museum of Fashion:

Rosalie - "Palais Galleria"

For our second run, the sky was a little more clear.
Our first strides led us near to the Pantheon, place "Sainte Geneviève":

Rosalie - "Place du Panthéon" - The Panthéon. On the left, the "Sainte-Geneviève" library and in the background, the Saint-Étienne-du-Mont church.

We went to greet the oldest tree of Paris, a Black Locust tree planted in 1601 by the botanist Jean Robin (the tree is native of North America) :

Rosalie - "Square René Viviani"

After the Museum of Fashion, we went to see  the first shop of the famous shoes creator, Christian Louboutin (notice that the shop occupies the premises of a former printing office):

Rosalie - In front of the Christian Louboutin's first shop, in the Véro Dodat gallery

Back on the Left bank, we ran on the old pavements of the "Cour du Commerce Saint André", next to one of the oldest Cafés in Europe (1682): the Café Procope, just under Benjamin Franklin's eyes who was one of the regular customers of the Café (we say that he would have written a part of the United States Constitution there):

Rosalie - "Cour du Commerce Saint André"

A kind newspaper seller was kind enough to take the last photo of our tour. Funny of to have the view of a newspaper seller inside his kiosk!

Rosalie, Paris Running Tour - Avenue of the Général Leclerc

Merci Rosalie !

The routes of the tours :

14 miles visiting Paris while running to prepare the New-York marathon, with Jess

Jess - "Pont des Arts" (Bridge of the Arts) and view on the Island of the City ("île de la Cité")

7h11 - Jess, marathon runner of New York (USA), in business trip in Paris, had two objectives by making a running tour: discover Paris and make a long run to prepare the New York marathon.

We thus made a running of 14 miles (23 km) in Paris, distance which allows a beautiful visit of the city and the discovery of its numerous aspects.

At first, a short pause to remember the objective, 26.2 miles (42.195 km) in New York:

Jess - Avenue de New-York

Then, from the avenue of New York, a small ascent (light preparation of the hilly New York marathon route) to join the Esplanade of the Trocadéro, the most beautiful view on the Eiffel Tower:

Jess - "Esplanade du Trocadéro"

We then leave the Eiffel Tower by the "Champ de Mars":

Jess - "Champ de Mars"

Formerly used for military maneuvers, the Champ de Mars is now an ideal training ground for the runners: firm and supple hard-packed surface, buckle of 2 km, garden always opened (without railings), enlightened paths... Perfect circuit for the early morning runners!

Much more east of Paris, it is on the sandy soil of the Lutetia arenas that we ran:

Jess - "Arènes de Lutèce"

Nowadays, we meet "pétanque" players or amateur soccer players there... About 2 000 years ago, there, we could see gladiators fighting, wild animals and also theater plays.
Paris, at the time, was Roman and was called Lutetia.

Of course, we did not miss numerous majors places of Paris, for example, the "Pont des Arts" (as we can see in the first photo of this article with its beautiful view on the Island of the City) or the Louvre Pyramid:

Jess - The Louvre pyramid

Since this sports stroll in Paris, Jess ran the marathon of New York with a beautiful performance. 
Paris Running Tour hopes to have contributed to this a little... ;)

Merci Jess !

The route of the tour :

Medieval art, Art nouveau, Modern Art, 10 miles (16 km) in Paris with Lysa

Lysa - Ile de la Cité (Island of the City)

7:03 AM - With Lysa, from Buffalo (New York), we made a 10 mile run (16 kilometers) to discover the numerous artistic facets of Paris. More than 2000 years of History... and artistic and architectural creations!

Did you notice the numerous Parisian metro entrances with these arabesques forms, as the one that we see on the photo above next to Lysa?
These entrances are typical artistic creations of the beginning of the 20th century, this art which we called the "Art Nouveau".
The creator, Hector Guimard, very representative artist of the "Art Nouveau" movement, realized 141 of these entrances of the Parisian subway from 1900 till 1912. Some entrance are even covered with a glass roof.
Today, there are only 86 left, 2 with a glass roof as the "Porte Dauphine" one (West of Paris on the Avenue Foch):

Hector Guimard's subway entrances were offered to the subways of other cities as Montreal, Mexico City, Chicago, etc. There is even one in the Washington National Gallery of Art!


Still on the Island of "La Cité", we also admired two Medieval Art examples (vast ensemble of the Middle Ages Arts, covering a period of 1000 years):

• The famous Cathedral Notre-Dame-de-Paris, representative of the Gothic Art:

Lysa and the Cathedral "Notre Dame de Paris"
(on the left, the temporary installations celebrating 850 years of Notre-Dame)

• The Clock of the Conciergerie (for more information, read this article) :

Lysa - Tour de l'Horloge (tower of the Clock)

Further west, we met two forms of more recent arts:

• A plant wall! One of the first green walls realized by Patrick Blanc, who invented the concept of plant walls. This one was created in 2004, on one of the Quai Branly Museum administration building walls:

Lysa - Vegetation wall (Patrick Blanc 2004)

• And of course, the famous Iron tower, the Eiffel Tower!

The Tower was built for the World Fair of 1889. 
From 1889 to 1931, it was the highest monument in the world.
During its construction, it was very criticized, but obtained a big success during the world fair of 1889, success which fell rather fast (in spite of a renewal of curiosity during the World Fair of 1900)
We even intended to destroy it... It is now the most emblematic symbol of Paris!

Lysa - Eiffel tower

It's a pleasure to run in Paris!

Merci Lysa !

The route of the tour: