Route 5: Palaiseau – Bures-sur-Yvette trails
Route 5: Palaiseau – Bures-sur-Yvette trails
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Route 5: Palaiseau – Bures-sur-Yvette trails
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17.2km
280m
Running
More urban, this course allows you to run throughout the 17 kilometres. You first reach the Guyonnerie and Rames woods to the north. The start of the route is the same as route 1, the markings of which you see for the first 3.5 kilometres.
Then you go north towards Palaiseau and Eugène Chanlon Park, where you cross the beautiful Troche quarry. Along the way, you come across several urban staircases which you can use to practice elevation gain. The main steps you encounter are those of the Polytechnic school, there are 300 of them. The direction of the route makes you take them downhill. Do not hesitate to accelerate, the descent is a trail exercise that we often forget to work on.
The stairs lead you to the town of Lozère. You then take a path that runs along the lake of the town on the right and the Yvette on the left. You literally feel like you are running on the body of water. You then begin the climb to the Persan wood. You meander through the trees forming a loop to finally descend to the Lac du Mail. As at the beginning of the route, you find route 1 and follow the Yvette promenade to the trail station.
Last updated: June 7, 2024
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1.48 km
Guyonnerie and Rames Woods
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5.19 km
La Troche Quarry
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This is an old sandstone quarry, traces of which can be found on the edge of the Saclay plateau, where a whole plateau of industries is currently located.
All that remains of the quarry today is the working face, 5 meters high and approximately 200 meters long. Today it is only used by rock climbing enthusiasts.
In the lower part, approximately in the center, you can see a Romanesque window... but it actually only dates from 2004!
A little history
The exploitation of this quarry has been documented since 1720.
It was mentioned in Napoleon's land registers in 1809.
At the end of the 19th century, the quarry was owned by the Pigeon family, and employed 25 to 30 workers.
Work was interrupted at harvest time because the quarrymen, very often, were also agricultural workers.
"The production was intended for Paris, brought down twice a day to Lozère station from 1867 by carts pulled by 3 horses, loaded with 120 paving stones (around 2 tonnes), and transferred to wagons using an additional track for goods (1891).”
“Before the railway, it took two days round trip for a cart to reach Paris”
The quarry closed its doors in 1937, and today it is more than a souvenir that can be discovered inside Eugène Chanlon Park.
The stone extracted from this quarry is sandstone. These so-called Fontainebleau sandstone and sand banks were formed in the Quaternary era (Stampian period) around 30 million years ago.
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7.99 km
Lozère Lake
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10.5 km
Bois Persan
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15.8 km
Yvette Riverside Walk
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Running on this rolling path along the stream is a feast for the legs as well as the eyes.
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17.2 km
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Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
6.96 km
4.15 km
2.72 km
1.98 km
1.01 km
382 m
Surfaces
7.86 km
4.31 km
3.70 km
1.01 km
310 m
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