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5:30:00 total cut-off
Historical race-date favourability, not a forecast
Verified GPS route
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RaceIndex has a GPS course file for Marathon de La Rochelle - Serge Vigot, so runners can inspect the route line on the map. Elevation charts and ascent figures appear only when that file includes usable elevation data.
The Marathon de La Rochelle - Serge Vigot is described as pancake flat. The course notes also call it fast and flat profile conducive to records.
The Marathon de La Rochelle - Serge Vigot route starts at Double staggered start on Quai Maubec and Quai Louis Durand; the two waves regroup at 610m and finishes at Esplanade Saint-Jean-d'Acre, between La Rochelle's two emblematic medieval harbour towers. Underfoot, expect a road course. It passes Vieux-Port (Old Port), Three harbour towers (Tour Saint-Nicolas, Tour de la Chaine, Tour de la Lanterne), Port des Minimes, Mireuil district and Port-Neuf district. Flattened figure-of-eight course made of two loops run twice, designed to concentrate spectators.
16 orchestras / music acts positioned along the course, roughly every 2 km. 9. Eight pace groups offered, from 2h45 (Flamme noire) through to 4h30 (Pink flame).