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Paris Marathon - 2005
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So, if you want to know about suitable venues, I suggest you leave it to her to arrange something, as she lives and works in central Paris.
You'll want the 8th, 16th or 17th arrondissements to be close to the start/finish. Otherwise La Defénse has some reasonable hotels and is only 5 minutes away on metro line 1.
Hhhmm, George Cinq may be a bit pricey (£20 for a club sandwich when I was last there a couple of years ago.)
I'll go along with Princes de Galles, Rach.
You were practically in Nanterre though Snoop. I meant the river side of La Défense just at the top of Avenue Charles de Gaulle. There's an Ibis and another big chain hotel right there. I'll have a look when I'm shopping tomorrow and report back.
We'd best leave the choice of eating out establishments to you then, with the benefit of your local knowledge.
May choose a weekend package as they're usually only about £175 'all in' for a three nighter in a 3* together with Eurostar.
Fly out 6.30am on the 9th, back 8.30pm on the 10th after the marathon.
Could have got a cheaper flight from Heathrow, but that would have almost meant driving half way to Paris to pick up the flight.
BMI Baby out of East Midlands looks as if it will be cheaper, around £60, but they have not opened their summer flights yet, and I couldn't be bothered to wait.
Just the simle task of persuading Mrs Bern
the only crowding problem is before it starts, when 35,000 people are crowded into the Champs E, and it takes up to 20 mins to get over the line. Once you're over it, you can immediately go at race pace as the boulevard is so wide.
I was in the 3 - 3:15 start and I took under a minute to cross the line and was up to race speed soon after.
Still not quite sure whether I'm doing this or Boston.
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Congratulations madame.
What's all this about "bibs" on the website. Are runners actually issued with something akin to a baby's bib or something that goes over the head? Or is it just a pin-on race number like everywhere else?
Turning to "times", I find it bemusing that anyone could cross a marathon finish line and be disappointed. To my mind, as a "virgin" 26.2 mile runner, anyone that completes a full marathon is a hero.
There's no comparison with New York - Paris is nearly flat.
There's a gentle rise before half way in the Bois de Vincennes, a couple of v short steep rises out of the road tunnels, but the only hill of note is a gentle rise up to the Bois de Boulogne at 32K which hurt at the time but is the kind of thing you wouldn't even notice on a normal training run.
There are no "bibs" (amusing though it would be to cook up a story about them). They're just race numbers.
(I disagree about being disappointed about times. It's healthy to ask yourself such questions - marathoning is a competitive sport where the aim is to do the course as quickly as possible, even first time).
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