Runners start · local time — Marathon 07:00 · Half 09:00 · 10K·5K 10:10
The La Paz Marathon is an urban run that connects several neighborhoods and the slopes on both sides of the valley in La Paz, Bolivia.
The organizer, Conitzer Running,
explains that the purpose of the course design is to connect La Paz's neighborhoods without significantly blocking car movement.
In a city built in a valley, there are few flat roads, and course chooses streets that are as quiet and flat as possible.
Unlike races that stick to big-city boulevards, it runs through the living spaces of residents.
Full marathon starts at the Leo Nothmann bakery on Avenida Landaeta.
It passes through Abdon Saavedra Boulevard, Sevras Square, and Libertad Bridge into the city center,
then continues to Purapura, Achachikala, Periférica, and Villa el Carmen.
It then heads south to Aranjuez via Chuquiagillo, Villa Copacabana, Bajo San Antonio, and Zabaleta Boulevard.
It travels between the high and low neighborhoods of the valley and crosses the Choqueyapu and Orkojahuira rivers.
Organizers present the route as an adventure similar to a trail across the city, emphasizing participants' autonomous movement.
Rather than a wide straight line that continues at a glance,
connections across roads and rivers that change from neighborhood to neighborhood create the flow of the race.
The event also includes half marathon, 10km, and 5km.
Half marathon starts from Costa du Rels school, 10km starts from Bicentenario Bridge towards Villa Copacabana, and 5km starts from Obrajes.
All events finish at Parque Bartolina Sisa in Aranjuez.
Roads that start from different neighborhoods come together in a park at the bottom of the valley.
