← All eventsValencia Marathon (Trinidad Alfonso)
One of the flattest, fastest marathons on earth and a world-record-calibre PB destination, run on wide city boulevards in cool early-December weather. Next-date approximate (first Sunday of December pattern).
One of the flattest, fastest marathons on earth. Just 50m of climbing across 42.195km of wide, closed city boulevards, run in cool early-December air. This is where marathon PBs and records happen.
The course threads Valencia's central streets on long, straight stretches built for locking into a rhythm, then finishes across a floating footbridge over the water at the City of Arts and Sciences.
There is nowhere to hide on a course this flat. No hills to blame a fade on, no downhills to recover. Your time is a clean readout of pacing and fuelling. Go out on adrenaline and the flat back half finds you.
Who finishes, and how
Patterns like these, drawn straight from 2025 race data, are baked into how Beina coaches you for this event.
Is Valencia Marathon (Trinidad Alfonso) for you?
- Runners chasing a personal best. Flat, closed and cool, the course gives back exactly the fitness you bring to it.
- Disciplined even-pacers. With no terrain to force variation, the runner who locks into one goal pace by 5km and holds it wins the day.
- Anyone who fuels on schedule. The flat course feels easy for a deceptively long time, so the runner still taking gels past 30km stays strong when others fade.
- Runners who stay relaxed in wind. The open boulevards can carry a coastal breeze with no hill to shelter behind, so calm effort beats fighting it.
Training plan for Valencia Marathon (Trinidad Alfonso)
A training plan for Valencia Marathon (Trinidad Alfonso) isn't a generic base build. Beina reads the event's exact demands, looks at your specific profile and the time you actually have, and maps a highly adapted plan to the start line.
- 42.195km with barely 50m of climbing: the same muscles fire the same way the whole distance, so muscular fatigue and glycogen are the limiters, not hills.
- No terrain to hide a fade. Your result is a direct readout of pacing and fuelling discipline.
- The wall at 30 to 35km still comes, and it arrives on legs that have made the exact same movement for 30km.
- Open, exposed boulevards can carry a coastal breeze, with no hill to break a headwind.
- The marathon-pace long run: 28 to 35km with 15 to 20km locked at goal pace on a flat route, fuelled exactly as on race day.
- Long tempo of 40 to 60 minutes continuous at marathon pace to build flat-course durability.
- Threshold intervals such as 3 to 4 x 3km to build the engine that makes goal pace feel easy.
- A midweek medium-long run of 14 to 18km, plus a steady-pace drill holding effort into a headwind.
- Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
- Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
- Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
- One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
