SaintéLyon Aid Station Planner
All six SaintéLyon checkpoints pre-loaded with the 2026 barrier times. Enter your goal finish time to get arrival times from Saint-Étienne to the Halle Tony Garnier.
Full SaintéLyon course data: aid stations, cutoffs, course profile
Enter a goal SaintéLyon finish time and get estimated arrival times at every checkpoint from Saint-Étienne to Lyon - 80 km, around 1,963 m of climbing, run overnight from a 23:30 start, with the 2026 barrier at each station.
Turns every arrival into a clock time and every cutoff into a margin.
Terrain changes how the goal time is shared between segments, not the total. One surface everywhere cancels out.
Checkpoints (7)
Cutoff Sun 04:00
Cutoff Sun 07:00
Cutoff Sun 09:30
Cutoff Sun 12:00
Cutoff Sun 13:30
Cutoff Sun 16:00
SaintéLyon
Goal 10:59 · Start Sat 23:30
- Crew may meet you at
The organiser publishes no crew access anywhere on this course.
- Drop bags
The organiser publishes no drop-bag service anywhere on this course.
| Checkpoint | Dist (km) | D+ (m) | Km-effort | Arrive by | Clock | Cutoff | Buffer | Leave by | Seg time | Seg pace/km |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | 0 | 0 | - | 0:00:00 | Sat 23:30 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Saint-Christo-en-Jarez | 19.2 | +615 | 27.1 | 2:40:43 | Sun 02:10 | Sun 04:00 | 1h49 | Sun 04:54Set by Sainte-Catherine | 2:40:43 | 8:22 |
| Sainte-Catherine | 34.0 | +397 | 21.1 | 4:45:50 | Sun 04:15 | Sun 07:00 | 2h44 | Sun 07:49Set by Le Camp - Saint-Genou | 2:05:07 | 8:27 |
| Le Camp - Saint-Genou | 45.0 | +365 | 16.9 | 6:25:53 | Sun 05:55 | Sun 09:30 | 3h34 | Sun 10:08Set by Soucieu-en-Jarrest | 1:40:03 | 9:06 |
| Soucieu-en-Jarrest | 58.8 | +248 | 18.8 | 8:17:13 | Sun 07:47 | Sun 12:00 | 4h13 | Sun 12:40Set by Chaponost | 1:51:20 | 8:04 |
| Chaponost | 65.4 | +92 | 8.3 | 9:06:15 | Sun 08:36 | Sun 13:30 | 4h54 | Sun 14:07Set by Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier (Finish) | 0:49:02 | 7:26 |
| Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier (Finish) | 80.0 | +246 | 19.0 | 10:59:00 | Sun 10:29 | Sun 16:00 | 5h31 | - | 1:52:45 | 7:43 |
Saint-Christo-en-Jarez
Sun 02:10Cutoff Sun 04:001h49
Leave by Sun 04:54Set by Sainte-Catherine
- Dist (km)
- 19.2
- D+ (m)
- +615
- Seg time
- 2:40:43
- Seg pace/km
- 8:22
Sainte-Catherine
Sun 04:15Cutoff Sun 07:002h44
Leave by Sun 07:49Set by Le Camp - Saint-Genou
- Dist (km)
- 34.0
- D+ (m)
- +397
- Seg time
- 2:05:07
- Seg pace/km
- 8:27
Le Camp - Saint-Genou
Sun 05:55Cutoff Sun 09:303h34
Leave by Sun 10:08Set by Soucieu-en-Jarrest
- Dist (km)
- 45.0
- D+ (m)
- +365
- Seg time
- 1:40:03
- Seg pace/km
- 9:06
Soucieu-en-Jarrest
Sun 07:47Cutoff Sun 12:004h13
Leave by Sun 12:40Set by Chaponost
- Dist (km)
- 58.8
- D+ (m)
- +248
- Seg time
- 1:51:20
- Seg pace/km
- 8:04
Chaponost
Sun 08:36Cutoff Sun 13:304h54
Leave by Sun 14:07Set by Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier (Finish)
- Dist (km)
- 65.4
- D+ (m)
- +92
- Seg time
- 0:49:02
- Seg pace/km
- 7:26
Lyon - Halle Tony Garnier (Finish)
Sun 10:29Cutoff Sun 16:005h31
- Dist (km)
- 80.0
- D+ (m)
- +246
- Seg time
- 1:52:45
- Seg pace/km
- 7:43
Highlighted rows use a pace heuristic (>12 min/km / >19 min/mi) - likely hiking by speed, not grade. The grade-based power-hike cue is ≥15% (see GAP and Incline tools). Times are distributed proportionally by km-effort.
Leave by is the latest you can start the next segment and still make every cutoff ahead of you at this pace - often set by a station further on, not this one. It does not yet subtract the time you spend stopped, so treat it as the optimistic edge.
Cutoff buffers are estimates from your goal time and published barriers. Courses and barriers change - verify against the official race guide.
Next step
SaintéLyon course in numbers
- Climbing per km
- 25 m
- ITRA km-effort
- 100 (50K)
- Highest point
- 885 m
- Biggest climb
- +184 m over 2.0 km at 9.3%
- Steepest climb
- +103 m over 0.9 km at 11.0%
- Longest descent
- -331 m over 9.2 km at 3.4% (through Soucieu-en-Jarrest)
- Track climbing above 3%
- 27%
- Winning time / cutoff
- 5h36 / 16h30 (2.9x the winner's time)
Section-by-section climbs, descents and grades are on the SaintéLyon course page.
About SaintéLyon
SaintéLyon is an 80 km night trail from Saint-Étienne to Lyon, run since 1952 and now the largest night race in Europe with close to 8,000 starters in six or seven waves. The first wave leaves at 23:30 on the Saturday; the finish at the Halle Tony Garnier closes at 16:00 on the Sunday.
Plan the whole race in the dark. Most of the field runs from 23:30 until well after sunrise at about 08:00, and the coldest hours arrive between Sainte-Catherine and Le Camp, on the exposed crest at around 800 m. A plan that leaves you standing still at an aid station at 04:00 in a wet shirt is a plan that ends at Soucieu.
The course is net downhill, which is the trap. 1,963 m of climbing against 2,290 m of descent, so quads take more punishment than lungs. The long runnable descent from Chaponost into Lyon is where over-aggressive early pacing shows up - the last 15 km are almost all road and cycle path, and they are slower than they look on tired legs.
No crew, one bag. Assistance at aid stations is banned outright and tolerated only for elites in a marked zone, and the single bag you leave at the start is returned at the finish. Every checkpoint here is a self-sufficient resupply: water, food and a barrier time.
2026 barriers: KM17 Saint-Christo-en-Jarez 04:00, KM32 Sainte-Catherine 07:00, KM48 Le Camp-Saint-Genou 09:30, KM60 Soucieu-en-Jarrest 12:00, KM67 Chaponost 13:30, KM82 Lyon 16:00. The km marks are the organizer's own 2026 figures; the distances in the table are the measured 2025 course, which is republished each autumn.
Checkpoint distances and elevation come from the organizer's timing platform for the 2025 edition - verify against the official race guide at saintelyon.com once the 2026 course is published.
How the splits are allocated
Your goal time is split across the SaintéLyon legs by km-effort: distance + gain/100 + loss/200. Full methodology.
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