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