Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes Nice-Cannes

I ran the 2014 edition, overall it's a beautiful race, as mentioned by others, 95% next to the blue Mediterranean sea. The winds and the rain made it more challenging. The only thing to improve is having more direction signs after the finish line for food location and to leave for the train station.

This course is possibly the most beautiful marathon in the world ! It is 95% of the time next to the beach. The 2013 edition had 70km/h gusts, so some of the sand was blowing into our eyes after km 30, nevertheless it just made the experience more epic for me. We ran along turquoise blue waters, and in mostly upper middle class neighborhoods, so I couldn't help keeping an eye out for the fancy properties. The course is simply fantastic. Organization was overall quite good, but not perfect. My biggest gripe was at the end of the race, I was waiting in line for 10 minutes just to proceed to get a bottle of water, then another 10 minutes for bananas and oranges, then another 5 minutes for the medal (meanwhile all I wanted to do was just collapse and lie down on the floor after running my heart out, but I felt like a sheep in a pack). There are some spectators but not as much as I would have liked. The medal is a bit uninspiring. Overall, it was a great experience, would recommend it for a weekend getaway.

I ran 2013 edition. This marathon is very nice - route is really cool, but it's not as flat as official vertical drop shows. In 2013 we experienced extreme wind conditions - it's mostly beach route so you should take it into consideration. I don't like behind the scenes organization. Website is very dirty, expo is poor, but the biggest problem is that they don't publish official results in any clear form like PDF. You can't check your net time anywhere to compare with other runners. It's really annoying.But to pay honor: on-route support is excellent and marathon overall is really worth to run!