Les Foulées Châtillonnaises 2026

Five editions, and the name has never lied: at the "Foulées Châtillonnaises", you really do pound the pavement 👟.

Meet in Châtillon, in the heart of the  Hauts-de-Seine, right in Île-de-France 🌆, two metro stops from Paris but a world away from its hustle and bustle: here, you hear the RER—you don’t take it. The city holds its race in early October, right in the middle of the autumn season in the Paris region. At that time of year, the sky walks a tightrope between 8 and 15 degrees: you’ll start out freezing under a windbreaker 🥶, but you’ll finish in a singlet on the track ☀️. Bring both—Parisian autumn never gives you a warning.

The route is drawn entirely through the streets of Châtillon, closed to traffic for the occasion 🚧: you won’t meet any buses or cars, only sidewalks packed with people 🙌. The start goes off on Avenue Clément Perrière, and each road race then flows along a fast, rolling profile 🏃, without the slightest false flat to break your stride. The "5 km" completes one loop of the course; the "10 km" does it twice—same scenery, same crowd, just twice as many high-fives to hand out 👋. The real shift happens at the finish: you leave the asphalt and head straight onto the athletics track of the Guy Môquet stadium 🏟️, and you round your final bend on the red tartan with the stands around you. A finish line that feels like an official meet, even for your very first race 🎽. The "3 km" solidarity walk follows the same route at its own pace, with no timing and no pressure ⏱️: here, the only race is against laziness. And on the "1.5 km", the youngest lace up their sneakers for the first time on that same asphalt 🦶, without knowing they may be holding the first bib in a long series.

Here, every stride carries more weight than a time ❤️. OMEPS donates all the contributions, plus €1 per km run, to the Institut Curie for cancer research, in the wake of the Course des Victoires. No T-shirt, no goodies at the finish either 🚫: the organization embraces its partnership with Sport Planète and prefers to invest in the cause rather than in plastic ♻️. The result is an event that brings everyone together—Sunday joggers and FFA time-chasers on the same start line—without ever taking itself too seriously 😄.

Once the race is over🥇, the day doesn’t just stop. About an hour’s drive away, the Palace of Versailles and its gardens await you for a whole other kind of endurance—the kind that comes with long walks between the pools 🌳. Closer by, the Parc de Saint-Cloud offers a view of Paris that’s well worth a second recovery jog 🍃, and the Étangs de Corot round out the picture for lunch with heavy legs but a light mind 🦆. Your Sunday morning run quickly turns into a full-day discovery trip 🚗.

So, ready to stir up big feelings before you hit the tartan? 😉 The Guy Môquet stadium is waiting for you—and it won’t move an inch 🏁.