I’m doing some graduate study in paris from Jan-August '07, I have never been there and I’m looking for some info.
I’d look it up myself, but i’m in the process of learning french and I don’t know enough vocab to find the right webpages yet.
I’ll be living downtown in the ‘Marais’ area. I’m basically looking for running races and maybe even triathlons in the area. I won’t have a car or anything, so local = necessary. Is there a parisian version of active.com?
Any multisport/training advice would be great, PM me if you’d like (but I couldn’t find anything on the search function, maybe others could benefit from replies).
your region is the Ile de france and your department is 75. all the clubs are listed with tel# and everyone speaks english in Paris-don’t even try to speak french. you will need a med certifcate to get the license-actually you will need a med cert to do everything athletic here so bring a new one and get some copies.
yep…generally very simple. Find a club…turn up to a session one night…eventually join…enjoy numerous weekly sessions. They’ll organise the license. Correct…you’ll need a medical certificate…french doctors knock these out in about 3 minutes as they get hundreds of requests for them…loads of races…train travel works fine. Enjoy !