LyonSaintéLyon Aid Station Planner
Course checkpoints are pre-loaded. Explore the fixed example, then unlock your complete roadbook in the app.
Full LyonSaintéLyon course data: aid stations, cutoffs, course profile
Prepare your goal and checkpoints here. The public example is fixed; unlock your complete personalized roadbook and printable crew card in the app.
Starting estimate based on the cutoff, not on published finish times. Replace it with your own goal.
Your start date and time travel with your inputs to the app.
Checkpoints (11)
Cutoff Sat 12:15
Cutoff Sat 17:00
Cutoff Sat 19:30
Cutoff Sun 00:40
Cutoff Sun 04:00
Cutoff Sun 07:00
Cutoff Sun 09:30
Cutoff Sun 12:00
Cutoff Sun 13:30
Cutoff Sun 16:00
A fixed roadbook example
Example only: a 10 km section with 500 m of climbing, 300 m of descent and a 90-minute budget. This is not a prediction for your race.
- Dist (km)
- 10 km
- Section time
- 1:30
- Planned average pace
- 9:00 / km
Unlock the complete saved roadbook in the app: checkpoint times, pacing, fueling and a printable crew card. Public course facts remain available here.
Stops are not separately modeled. The app works out your splits with its own course model.
Add your race start date and time to save this plan.
LyonSaintéLyon course in numbers
- Climbing per kmClimbing per mile
- 31 m165 ft
- ITRA km-effort
- 210 (100M)
- Highest point
- 925 m3,035 ft
- Biggest climb
- +397 m over 11.6 km at 2.6% (through Soucieu-en-Jarrest)+1,302 ft over 7.2 mi at 2.6% (through Soucieu-en-Jarrest)
- Steepest climb
- +375 m over 4.3 km at 8.3%+1,230 ft over 2.7 mi at 8.3%
- Longest descent
- -402 m over 11.5 km at 2.6% (through Soucieu-en-Jarrest)-1,319 ft over 7.1 mi at 2.6% (through Soucieu-en-Jarrest)
- Track climbing above 3%
- 32%
- Winning time / cutoff
- 21h36 / 31h00 (1.4x the winner's time)
Section-by-section climbs, descents and grades are on the LyonSaintéLyon course page.
About LyonSaintéLyon
LyonSaintéLyon covers the SaintéLyon course twice: 80 km out from Lyon to Saint-Étienne during Saturday daylight, a meal and a rest in the dedicated area, then the full night race back with the 8,000-strong field, starting from the front line. 800 places, 160 km, 5,000 m of climbing.
Two races with one clock. The outbound leg is untimed but capped: Saint-Étienne closes at 22:30, thirteen and a half hours after the 09:00 start. The return leg then runs to the SaintéLyon barriers, and the finish at Lyon closes at 16:00 on Sunday - 31 hours in total. Only the return leg is ranked.
Plan the rest stop as a checkpoint, not a break. The Saint-Étienne stop is where the race is won and lost: too short and you start the night cold and underfed, too long and the 00:40 departure barrier decides for you. Most finishers spend between 45 minutes and two hours there.
Drop bags, and only here. The organizer carries two lightening bags per runner, one to Sainte-Catherine on the way out and one to Saint-Étienne. That is the only outside kit you get: crew assistance at aid stations is banned across the whole event.
The second crossing is the hard one. The Monts du Lyonnais crest at 925 m is climbed in daylight on the way out and in the dark, in November, on 80 km legs on the way back. Runners who treat the outbound leg as a race rather than a transfer rarely finish.
Checkpoint distances follow the organizer's 2026 barrier tables; elevation is measured on the official 2026 GPX, which matches the organizer's 5,000 m. Check saintelyon.com before race day.
How the splits are allocated
Your goal time is split across the LyonSaintéLyon legs by km-effort: distance + gain/100 + loss/200. Full methodology.
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