Paris: The Iron Lady of Paris

Paris
The Iron Lady of Paris: Tour Eiffel
Distance: About 5 miles, 8km
Start: Trocadéro Métro Station
Finish: ´Ecole Militaire Métro Station

If there was just one landmark to represent Paris, the Eiffel Tower is of course it. You don’t have to pay for the elevator ride to the top of it though, in order to experience its grandeur. This a good 5 miler that can easily become a short or longer run, depending on how many times you want to marvel at the 1,000 ft tower and the Palais de Chaillot across the river.

- When you get off at Trocadéro Métro Station, you will be at the Palais de Chaillot, which now houses the Navel Musum and the Museum of Mankind. You will be able to see the Eiffel Tower across the river.
- Cross place José Marti, heading to the left and then downward. There is a park that winds its way down towards the Seine river and Pont d’léna.
- Cross the bridge and continue straight under the Eiffel Tower. On the other side you will hit a street right before the lawn of the big park.
- Take a left on the road and a right on the edge of the park on Allée Adrienne and follow along the edge of the park in a big rectangle.
- Mile 1 is about at Avenue Joseph Bouvard. Mile 2 is not until you make it almost back to the Eiffel Tower along Alle Thomy Thierry.
- One lap around the park is about 1.3 miles more, so add as many as you would like. Otherwise when you come back up Allée Adrienne the second time, this time when you hit the back of the Ecole Militaire on Av de la Motte-Picquet, make a left on Av. De Suffren and wrap around the front and then other side of the Ecole.
- Make a right on Avenue de Tourville and pass behind the back end of Les Invalides.
- Do a loop around it as well but run up to Rue St. Dominique before turning left again, all the way to Av. Bosquet. Make a left and end at Ecole Militaire Métro Station

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Posted by Running Ade

Paris: The Triumphal Arch

Paris
The Triumphal Arch
Distance: About 4.5 miles, 7km, round trip
Start and Finish: Tuileries Metro Station

Want a way to experience the grand shopping avenue of the Champs- Elysées without spending the money? Make it your jogging course while being able to enjoy the Tuileries Gardin and making a pass in front of the Grand Palais. There is an arch at each end of the run so that you always have a target to keep you going; the Arc de Carrousel overlooking the Tuileries and the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the hill, ordered by Napoleon a monument to the army.

- From the Tuileries station, run to the middle of the gardens and turn right towards place de la Concorde.
- After the square, on the right, cross into and go through the Champs-Élysée Garden. You’ll see the Palais de l’Élysée on the right.
- Turn left on Av. De Marigny and pass around the side of the Grand Palais.
- On Av. F D Roosevelt, turn right onto R François Premier. At the pretty square with a fountain, turn left and stop for the chapel Notre-Dame de la Consolation.
- Go back to Franois and turn left up to Montaigne (there are lots of fancy shops here). Make a right and run back towards the Champs-Elysées. There is a roundabout and you’ll be able to see the Arc de Triomphe from here, which is your next mark.
- Once you reach the other arch, do a loop around to take in the details and then you’re ready to make your way back. Arch to arch, the triumph is finishing with a full pocketbook.

Posted by GBR457

Paris: Intellects and Old Worlds

Paris
Intellects and Old Worlds
Distance: About 3.1 miles, about 5km
Start and Finish: Gare d’Austerlitz

As the Pantheon in Rome was dedicated to all the great gods, the Pantheon in Paris is dedicated to great men. Among those buried there are Voltaire, Rousseau, Victor Hugo, Jean Moulin, Marie Curie (the only woman to be so honored), Descartes, and Louis Braille. This run also takes you by the Natural History museum, if you want to see the old kings of the animal world, and by the Jardin des Plantes, if you want to see some treasures of the floral type. The Arab World Institute is also on the way, which beside its decorative exterior, is a good place to learn about the rich culture and history of the arab world and its great scholars. If learning was done through osmosis, this would be a very academic route!


- Starting at the Gare d’Austerlitz metro station, enter the main entrance to the Jardin des Plantes. Towards the back you’ll pass through the Natural History Museum (definitely worth a trip inside on a non-running excursion! Many extinct species are here).
- Leaving the park you’ll run right into the Musée de Mineralogie, the Grand Galerie de l’Evolution, and La Mosquée
- Head right, along the park until you make a left on Rue Lacépéde. Keep going straight in this direction and you’ll pass a cozy square with a well in the center.
- At Rue Clotilde make a right and you will bump into the Pantheon. Take a clockwise circle around it but stop once you reach the end of the opposite side you started on, and continue straight on Rue Clovis until Rue Monge. It’s a main street so you can’t miss it.
- Take a left until Blvd Saint-Germain (another main one) and turn right. This will take you back to the water, right in front of the Arab World Institute.
- From there follow the river back to the park, where you can explore a bit in the western side of it until you get back to the front entrance.
- Take a cool down by walking across the bridge and back before you finish.

Posted by BritnyRun9

Paris: Hemingway and Friends

Paris
Hemingway and Friends
Distance: About 3.6 miles, about 5.8 km
Start and Finish: Montparnasse Bienvenüe Métro Station


What naturally draws young people full of disillusionment, ennui, and apathy but the comfort of friends amongst good drinks. This running route allows you to follow in the drinking and hang-out steps of some the most famous minds from the Lost Generation. You'll start off by passing the ivy covered Musée du Montparnasse, where Russian painter Marie Vassilieff operated a cantina that Picasso frequented. Then you'll get to pass where a bar used to exist that Hemingway and F. Scott-Fitzgerald would spend time in together (it has since changed names). Then off past a cafe where most of "The Sun Also Rises" was written. Maybe you'll be inspired to do some philosophical thinking along the way.... or just find your new favorite bar.
To good art, good literature, good company, and good booze! Bottom's up!

- Starting at the Montparnasse Bienvenüe Métro Station, run south to Av. du Maine, and take a left down to Musée du Montparnasse. You'll pass the modern skyscraper too.
- Turn up Rue du Départ and turn right on Blvd Edgar Quinet to do a lap around the cemetery.
- When you get back, turn up Rue Delambre. At No.9 is where dancer Isadora Duncan lived, at No.10 there used to be the Dingo Bar (different bar now) where Hemingway drank with Scott-Fitzgerald. Continue passed Blvd Montparnasse and don't turn left until Rue Notre-Dame. Follow that on to Raspail going north.
- Turn on Huysmans and again right on Rue d'Assas, down past the park, past the artist Zadkine's museum, and the Closerie des Lilas- Hemingway's favorite place to write (left in the photo). Continue until the beautiful fountain done by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, with its women symbolizing the Four Corners of the World.
- Turn right up Blvd du Montparnasse all the way back to the metro stop. You'll pass Le Select at No. 99, which is where Hemingway wrote most of "The Sun Also Rises"

Posted by 2fastRichard

Paris: Jardin du Luxembourg

Paris
Jardin du Luxembourg
Distance: Runner's choice
Start and Finish: Runner's choice


The Luxembourg Gardens are great for all types of runners. Marie de Medicis had the park built to replicate her Florentine childhood home, after her husband Henri IV was killed. It is easy to get to whether you want to run from wherever you are staying or take a metro to one of several metro stops nearby and run from there. The 60-acre park is filled with fountains, sculpture, ponds, flowerbeds, tennis courts, a marionette theatre, playgrounds, and even bee keepers tending to honey bees. There are plenty of places to stop for a mid or post run snack so carry a couple of Euros with your keys. Sometimes you can see the Sorbonne students taking their lunch or working on projects out in the grass. The park is 2 miles around the perimeter but filled with paths to take up as much or as little time as you would like.

Posted by jrRunK

Paris: The Bourgeois Marsh

Paris- the 3rd and 4th arrondissements
The Bourgeois Marsh
Distance: 4.2 miles, about 6.8 km
Start and Finish: Saint-Sébastien-Froissart Métro Station

This run goes through a district called Le Marais (The Marsh) on the right side of the river bank, which was cleared of its marshlands back in the 12th century. Today the area has a bustling Jewish community, with Jewish events going on, Jewish bookstores and restaurants that serve kosher foods; giving you lots of options for how to spend your "cool down." There are several fine and decorative art museums in the area, including the Picasso Museum, to notice along the way. The run takes you on to the Ile de la Cite, still considered by many as the heart of the city, so that you can pass the Notre Dame for a closer look, without waiting in the long lines. The Ile de la Cite is linked with both banks by the oldest bridge of Paris, the Pont Neuf, which isn't en route but can easily be added as a detour. In general a good run for an artistic eye for checking out hidden details in the streets of Paris that usually go unnoticed.

- Starting at the Saint-Sébastien-Froissart Métro Station, run south along Blvd. Beaumarchais, towards the river.
- At the Bastille roundabout, take Rue Lyon (more or less still straight from the direction you came from). On that, take your first right, on Blvd de la Bastille until Quai de la Rapée and take another right but one until the next intersection where you will turn around and head back the way you came and the way back the Bastille roundabout. This time go left on Blvd. Henri IV.
- Take a right, near the water, at Quai Henri IV/ Quai des Célestins until the Pont Maries and cross the water there to Saint-Louis Island. Take a right on the island until the Pont Saint-Louis bridge that will get you onto the Ile de la Cite. Follow the right side of the island and cross back to the mainland on Pont d'Arcole.
- Stay straight until the Hotel de Ville and take a right and follow that main road until the left turn for the Place des Vosges.
- Follow the street around the the right, passed the Victor Hugo house and take a right on Rue du Pas de la Mule. That will take you back to Blvd. Beaumarchais, which you follow back to the starting point.

Posted by Carl_4sho

Paris: The Hill Workout

Paris
The Hill Workout
Distance: about 7.5 miles, about 12 km
Start and Finish: Jules Joffrin Métro Station

Montmarte is usually known for the artists and Sacre Couer, but locals see it more for the vibrant and beautiful neighborhood that it also represents. The bonus about enjoying this run is Buttes Chaumont, which is an even 2 km loop around the perimeter with excellent hill training; not too steep but a good challenge. There is a nice lake there to keep you distracted from your burning quads! From there, the loop passes via the Canal St. Martin to another park; Parc de la Villette. And you were wondering about fresh air in big cities...it's all about the parks.

- Starting at Jules Joffrin Métro Station, run south for two blocks to Rue Marcadet and make a left.
- Take that all the way to the water and cross over at Rue de Crimée. That street will take you straight to the first park: Parc des Buttes Chaumont. This is where there a good hills and feel free to stop there and concentrate on repeating that loop as much as you want.
- Otherwise after a lap or two, head back the way you came towards the rive but this time don't cross. Make a right and stay on Quai de la Marne until Parc de la Villette. Take a left there on Galerie de la Villette (or explore the park) and make another left at the Geode theater on Cambrial.
- Keep to the right and the road veers into Rue Curial, then Gaston Tessier, and once you cross a big street, Rue de l'Evangile. Stay on that until you reach a 6 way intersection and take a left down Rue Pajol. That will bring you back to Riquet, which is the same as Marcadet (the first big street you were on). Take that back to starting point.

Posted by ClimbCraz