Paris, April
Schneider Electric Marathon de Paris Pacing Plan
Starts on the Champs-Élysées beneath the Arc de Triomphe, runs past the Louvre and Bastille, through the Bois de Vincennes, along the Seine past Notre-Dame and the Eiffel Tower, and finishes through the Bois de Boulogne. Mostly flat with a handful of rolling sections in the two Bois (woodland parks) that bookend the course — the closing kilometers through the Bois de Boulogne are the quietest, crowd-wise, after the density of the central landmarks.
Distance
42.9 km
Elevation gain
+122m / -113m
Typically run in
April
Typical race-day weather
8°C, 10 km/h
Weather is a 10-year seasonal average for this course's location and month, not a forecast for a specific date — see FAQ.
Elevation profile
Sample strategy — 3:45:00 goal
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KM 0-4 — The field is packed at the start, so hold 5:14-5:23/km through the first three kilometers even though it feels conservative. Historical data for this date puts conditions around 8.4°C with a light 10.1 kph crosswind — just a 10-year average this far out, not a locked forecast, but cool enough that there's no need to hedge pace for heat. Km4 tips downhill (-0.8%) and your pace naturally drops to 4:58/km; let it happen but don't chase it further. You hit km4 at 20:51, right on schedule for 3:45.
KM 5-11 — Terrain turns rolling here: km9 climbs 1.2% and slows you to 5:33/km, then km11 drops -1.3% and you're at 4:50/km. That 43-second swing is grade, not fitness — run it by effort, not by watch panic. You cross km11 at 57:22, still on target despite the bouncing splits.
KM 12-19 — The steepest sustained climb before halfway lands at km17 (+1.6%, 5:41/km — your slowest kilometer yet), though a following tailwind takes a little sting out of it. Two downhill kilometers immediately after (-0.3%, -0.8%) snap you back to 5:06 and 4:58/km — don't burn extra energy fighting km17, let the descent do the recovering. You pass km19 at 1:39:21.
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