Runners’ Bag

You have a date on Sunday the 1st of December with one of the world’s ten best marathons — the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon.

Inspired by the 2019 campaign ‘Valencia Speaks’, the shirt for this year’s race features a reflective component on the front that reacts to light changes. You can pick up your shirt at the Runners’ Fair (Expo Deporte Valencia) on Friday the 29th or Saturday the 30th of November between 9 A.M. and 8 P.M. (without a break).

Your entry also includes:

Bib + Chip
Official T-shirt
Finisher’s medal
Medical Insurance
Refund due to injury
Paella Party
Tourist discounts
Full Runner’s bag
10 Refreshment stands
Showers
Lockers
Parking

Furthermore, your Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon entry gives you access to the Paella Party, free locker service, post-race showers, and many other services that we will announce on this web page in due course.

Tips on refreshments

Tips on nutrition and liquid intake

The 40th Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon will be held on the 6st of December. We want to make sure that you safely complete the trial.

To run in the Marathon and complete the 42-kilometre circuit, you must not only have followed the whole training plan and a healthy diet, you also need rest. In addition you should also take your nutrition and liquid intake needs into account during the race itself.

During the race, runners will find no fewer than nine points along the route serving liquid and food refreshments. They are sited at 5-kilometre intervals (plus an extra one at Kilometre 37.5), plus at two special points providing gels (at approx. kilometres 19 and 29.At all of the Valencia Marathon refreshment points, you can get sealed bottles of water (33 cl.) and beakers/bottles of Powerade – an isotonic drink(15 cl.).There will be a special liquid and solid refreshment point at the Finishing Line.

Nutritional Information for the race

Below, we provide nutritional information by unit so that a runner knows exactly how much carbohydrates he or she is consuming during the race. This information is much more important than you think.You will need to drink the right quantities during the race and right from the first refreshment point, as well as take in mineral salts and carbohydrates. It is vital that you do not miss out any of the refreshment points.You should reckon on an intake of between 30 and 60 grams of carbohydrates each hour.

Drink between 25 and 30 cl. of water at every refreshment point (if possible, little by little rather than all at once).
Remember that the Powerade at each refreshment point contains carbohydrates (approximately 8 grams for each ’slug’ in a beaker – roughly 15 cl.). This is in addition to any gel you take.
From the refreshment point at Kilometre 25 to the Finish, there will be fruit at each of this succeeding points — bananas, dried apricots, and apricots.
- Bananas: One banana contains about 33 grams of carbohydrates. By the same token, a third of a banana contains 11 grams of carbohydrates.
- Dried Apricots: 1 dried apricot (9 grams) contains 5 grams of carbohydrates
At kilometres 19 and 29, Enervit brand gels will be handed out. Each sachet (25 grams) contains 17.8 grams of carbohydrates.
In addition, there will be water, isotonic drinks, and fruit at the Finish to help runners recover.

Other recommendationsMineral salts are important to prevent dehydration. Enervit and Powerade gels contain these essential minerals but we also recommend you take an extra capsule of mineral salts for each hour of the race with at least 20 cl. of water (never just the capsule on its own).Caffeine boosts performance but taking more of it does not help. The equivalent of a coffee before starting the race and no more than two during the race will help you to be more active and perform better (those who do not tolerate caffeine well should be careful because it may cause diarrhoea).

Fernando Ortiz, National Athletics Trainer.

Fernando Ortiz, entrenador nacional de atletismo.

Organisation chart

València City Council

Management Committee Members
Trial strategy in the municipal sphere
Municipal facilities
Volunteers' Office
Permit management
Co-ordination of municipal services
Local Police
Institutional Relations
Activities promoting amateur sport

S.D. Correcaminos (running club)

Management Committee Members
Runners' Care Service
Sponsorship Management
Race organisation, logistics, and infrastructure
The Runners' Fair
Management of Volunteers
Planning, contracting and management of elite athletes
Budgetary management
Parallel activities
Support Programme
Medical Services
Security Plans
Health & Safety at Work
Relations with other marathons and sports institutions
Entries

Fundación Trinidad Alfonso

Management Committee Members
Trial Sponsors
Event promotion and support
General strategy for the event
Marketing & Communication Plans
National & International Sales Plans
Budgetary Sustainability
Public co-ordination, involvement, and awareness campaigns
Tourism packages & services
Image of events

Course

Training Plans

All runners entered for the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich can receive our training plans, of which there are five versions depending on the target race time. The plans have been drawn up by José Garay, trainer with CA Cárnicas Serrano (athletics club).

Do you want to get your training plan?

To receive the training guide/plan by email, runners entered for the Valencia Marathon must first ask to be sent a plan. When you request the plan, we will check your registration details for the Valencia Marathon 2024: registration number; email address; DNI/NIE/passport number.

From then on, your training plan will be sent to you weekly by email. Each part of the plan covers the following seven days of your training. Videos and useful tips will be provided along with the plans to help you get the most out of your training.

The plans cater to those runners who are aiming to finish the Marathon in under one of the following times: 3 hours, 3 hours 15; 3 hours 30; 3 hours 45; 4 hours 00; 4 hours 15; 4 hours 30 and 5 hours (finish de race). The plans cover a 16-week period before the Marathon and the first instalment of the plan will be sent on 13 August.

So from 12 August, a training plan instalment will land in your email inbox each week. You can also follow the plan in the private section of the website we have set up for this purpose.

Children’s activities

With the arrival of the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon, the gardens of The City of Arts and Sciences come to life with a host of children’s activities. These take place onthe morning of Saturday the 5th of December, lasting from 9:00 A.M. to Noon (12:00) in Paseo de la Alameda.

The sporting spirit that imbues the race is a golden opportunity to foster children’s activities. Here, youngsters play the leading part. Fundación MAPFRE and Juegos Deportivos Municipales (the Municipal Sports Board) organise these events, which foster healthy lifestyles and are of an educational nature.

In 2020, the following activities will be laid on:

Mini-Olympics run by the Municipal Sports Foundation.
MAPFRE Healthy Diet Workshop and Road Safety Circuit
Marathon at School — Infant Gala .
Activities run by EMT València (Public Transport Authority)
’Bouncy Castle’ (in the shape of a bus measuring 9x4m.)
Activity Marquee:
- Musical Theatre ‘La historia de Superbús y Superbusina’ (The Superbus Story)
- Puppet Theatre: ‘Draco, el dragón curioso’ (The Curious Dragon)
- Story-telling “El autobús rojo de la EMT’ (EMT’s Red Bus)
- Inflatables for small children.

The Marathon at School

The Marathon at School is an education initiative in which the city’s Infant and Junior schools take part in the weeks building up to the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich. In 2024 participated 60 schools and more than 18,000 schoolchildren are taking part.

Schoolchildren took part in literary and drawing contests, races, team games, workshops, a mini-marathon, arts and crafts, making their own sports drinks, and using new technologies, among many other things.

Furthermore, the schools taking part were also eligible for super prizes covering the following:

Literary and drawing contests (by age group)
The school with the biggest support group in the Marathon held on the 7th of December
The most original support stand for runners in the Marathon held on the 7th of December
Best application of a project in a school (with video)

The youngest members of the family can also play and learn from home by using the maratonalcole.com web site.

The Marathon at School is an education initiative in which the city’s Infant and Junior schools take part in the weeks building up to the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon. In the 2018 edition, 31 schools and over 10,100 children participated in the project.

For the third year in a row, schoolchildren took part in literary and drawing contests, races, team games, workshops, a mini-marathon, arts and crafts, making their own sports drinks, and using new technologies, among many other things.

Furthermore, the schools taking part were also eligible for super prizes covering the following:

Literary and drawing contests (by age group)
The school with the biggest support group in the Marathon held on the 2nd of December
The most original support stand for runners in the Marathon held on the 2nd of December
Best application of a project in a school (with video)

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The youngest members of the family can also play and learn from home by using the maratonalcole.com web site.

Discover more about this exciting project in the video presentation on The Marathon at School:

Breakfast Run

The Bimbo Valencia Breakfast Run is held in parallel with the activities on the day before the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich. Hundreds of athletes from all over the world use the run as a final training session before taking part in the Marathon itself on Sunday.

The training consists of a gentle 30-45 minute run in the Turia Garden, covering a large part of the Jardí del Túria 5K Circuit and finishing on the finish walkway at the lake of l’Hemisfèric.

In addition, after the training you will be able to recover energy with Coca-Cola, Enervit and ColaCao and enjoy a lunch with Bimbo and Serrano.

The Breakfast Run is held in parallel with other activities on the day before the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso. Hundreds of athletes from all over the world use the run as a final training session before taking part in the Marathon itself on Sunday. The training session will be held on Saturday 3rd December at 9 a.m. and involves a gentle 30-45 minute jog. Some 2,000 runners will take part in the event, which will be held in Jardín del Turia park. The run will follow much of the Jardín del Turia 5-kilometre circuit. You can register for the Breakfast Run either online or in person.

The running bibs bought through the online form can be picked up on Saturday 3rd December in the Start Line area.
Running bibs can be bought in person before the event on Saturday 3rd December in the Start Line area.

This non-competitive event serves as the last event before the Valencia Marathon and also showcases a wide variety of Valencian cuisine. Liquid refreshment will be provided at the end of the run (water, ‘Orxata’ (a drink made from sweetened Tiger Nuts), and fruit juice). There will also be solid refreshment (’fartons’ (sweet sponge-cake), fruit, and savoury biscuits).

Shops Run the Marathon

Valencia’s City-Centre Retailers Association has long worked with the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon to ensure that as many runners and non-runners enjoy the race.

Once again this year, there will be a Shop-window Competition for associated retailers. The theme will be running the Marathon.

Points will be awarded for originality, design, use of space, and the innovativeness of shop-window displays. There will be five prizes, each of €500, for:

Originality and Design
Incorporation of wares in the shop-window
Public votes (number of times the photo is shared on Facebook)^*

^*Determined by the number of ‘shares’ on Facebook of shop-window photos taken by the general public. There will be a prize-draw of 20 vouchers of €100 each (tax included) for photo-sharers to spend as they like in the shops taking part in the competition.

Shops and associates join in ‘The Marathon Party’ with a host of discounts and special offers.

From the 2nd to the 30th of November, a hundred associated shops will join in ‘The Marathon Party’ with a host of discounts and special offers for Marathon runners and their companions.

See all the special offers/discounts shown in the Valencia ‘Running City’ App. The App can be downloaded from the ‘Marathon Party’ section of the web site.

Valencia’s City-Centre Retailers Association has long worked with the Valencia-Trinidad Alfonso EDP Marathon to ensure that as many runners and non-runners enjoy the race.

Once again this year, there will be a Shop-window Competition for associated retailers. The theme will be running the Marathon.

Points will be awarded for originality, design, use of space, and the innovativeness of shop-window displays. There will be five prizes, each of €500, for:

Originality and Design
Incorporation of wares in the shop-window
Public votes (number of times the photo is shared on Facebook)*

*Determined by the number of ‘shares’ on Facebook of shop-window photos taken by the general public. There will be a prize-draw of 20 vouchers of €100 each (tax included) for photo-sharers to spend as they like in the shops taking part in the competition.

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Shops and associates join in ‘The Marathon Party’ with a host of discounts and special offers.

From the 2nd to the 30th of November, a hundred associated shops will join in ‘The Marathon Party’ with a host of discounts and special offers for Marathon runners and their companions.

See all the special offers/discounts shown in the Valencia ‘Running City’ App. The App can be downloaded from the ‘Marathon Party’ section of the web site.

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Charity

The Pequeño Deseo Foundation has been chosen by the Organising Committee as the charity of the 45th edition of the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich.

Since 2000, the Pequeño Deseo Foundation has been improving the state of mind of children with serious illnesses by fulfilling their greatest wish in order to help them face their treatment with more strength.

It has been scientifically proven that the fulfilment of a wish generates many positive emotions and, in turn, has a great effect on the well-being of the children and on the way they cope with the illness.

In addition to the runners in their registration process, all those people, registered or not in the Valencia Marathon, who wish to collaborate with this year’s charity and cause can do so by clicking on the following button:

The charity donations given by runners when registering for the Valencia Marathon, as well as the contribution from the Z Zurich Foundation through its charity campaign ‘1 euro per finisher’, will be donated to the charity chosen by the Marathon Committee each year, to which other actions will be added.

Past charitable donations in Valencia Marathon

Below is a list of charity donations in recent years:

YEAR	EDITION	RECIPIENT CHARITY	AMOUNT DONATED
2011	31st	UNICEF	€3,741
2012	32nd	CASA CARIDAD VALENCIA	€10,775
2013	33rd	AVAPACE	€14,549
2014	34st	SANT JOAN DE DÉU- SERVEIS SOCIALS-	€15,572
2015	35th	FUNDACIÓN ACTIVA ESPINA BÍFIDA COMUNITAT VALENCIANA	€19,947
2016	36th	FUNDACIÓN DE AYUDA A NIÑOS Y ADOLESCENTES EN RIESGO (ANAR)	€21,929
2017	37th	ASOCIACIÓN ALANNA	€22,783
2018	38th	FUNDACIÓN PEQUEÑO DESEO	€26,534
2019	39th	JUEGATERAPIA	€29,544
2020	40th	SAVE THE CHILDREN	€43,996
2021	41st	DOCTORS OF THE WORLD	€18,126
2022	42nd	GASOL FOUNDATION	€44,298
2023	43rd	CASA RONALD MCDONALD VALENCIA	€60,088
2024	44th	FUNDACIÓN UNOENTRECIENMIL	€ 79.871

On the other hand, it is worth noting that there are many ways in which support is being offered to charities. These are just some of the different activities through which the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso is partnering with its charity organisation:

Mini Valencia Marathon MSC

This parallel activity has been enjoyed by the youngest children since 2014 and promotes athletics from the earliest ages. The Mini Marathon is a further example of the social involvement of the Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso. In addition to being an activity aimed at the youngest members of families, registration for the race involves a donation of €3 to the official charity.

Charity donation

The Valencia Marathon Trinidad Alfonso Zurich offers all its runners the option of donating an extra amount of money that will go entirely to that year’s charity.

And if you are not going to run, you can still participate by making a charity donation through this direct link.