Course de la Saint-Valentin 2027

Course de la Saint-Valentin is a mid-February road race in Paris's 19th arrondissement, run each year on the Saturday closest to Valentine's Day. The event uses Parc des Buttes-Chaumont as its setting and offers 5 km and 10 km options, with the 10 km drawing the most interest. Front Runners de Paris organizes it, and the race leans into the Valentine's theme by calling itself Romeo and Juliet's favorite race. The running is inside a public park rather than on a big city-to-city route, but both listed distances include 128 m of positive elevation. The 5 km also has a duo format, which fits the Valentine's idea better than a standard solo road race. Recent fields are approachable: more than 400 runners joined the previous edition, more than 100 entered the 5 km duo, and another listing counted 548 registered participants. The starts are close together, with the 5 km at 10:00 and the 10 km at 10:05.