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Auffahrtslauf St. Gallen

The organiser has not published a date. St. Gallen
St. Gallen
© OpenStreetMap St. Gallen. Photograph by Schaffhausen, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

The course

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Downhill from km 4 to km 15, then a climb of 86 m home.

Start, finish

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  2. Photo: Jakub Hałun, CC BY 4.0

km 2.1mile 1.3

Gübsensee

The organiser's course page sends the half marathon east past the Gübsensee after the first kilometre, up the 260 m climb of its hill sprint.

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 21. The trace runs between 567 and 689 metres, a range of 122 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there. The dashed stretches are bridge decks: Gübsenweg, km 3.5 to 3.7; Vonwilstrasse, km 11.2 to 11.3; Spiseggbrücke, km 15.2 to 15.3; Rechensteg, km 16.1 to 16.2; Rechenwaldstrasse, km 17.1 to 17.2; Geissbergstrasse, km 19.3 to 19.5; (unnamed span), km 20.8 to 20.9. A bare-earth model reads the ground or the water beneath a bridge, not the deck the runner is on, so those runs are interpolated between the ground either side rather than measured, and they under-report the real climb across a span.
0 5 10 15 20 km
0 5 10 13.1 mi

Dashed: bridge

  • downhill to 15
  • climb home

Your 2 gels, at the orange marksFor a 1:55 finish, one every 40 minutes

  1. km 7.3mile 4.6
  2. km 14.7mile 9.1

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The course in short 3 lines
  • Stadium, old town, Sittertobel, stadiumStadium start, old town, Sittertobel, back to the stadium.
  • A 260 m hill sprint to the GübsenseeA timed 260 m climb, and 319 m up in the half.
  • High point at 5.7 km, low point at 14.5 kmBetween 567 m and 689 m; high at 5.7 km, low at 14.5 km.
Course notes 3 short reads on the course
Whole courseGeometryStadium, old town, Sittertobel, stadiumStadium start, old town, Sittertobel, back to the stadium.

The organiser’s course page starts the half marathon at the Stadion St.Gallen, the largest football stadium in eastern Switzerland, in the west of the city. After a kilometre the route turns east past the Gübsensee and on over the goods yard into the centre. It passes the Roter Platz, runs through Multergasse and Spisergasse, crosses the Klosterplatz and goes down over the Kreuzbleiche into the Sittertobel. The Siebenbrückenweg and the open-air grounds lead back to the stadium, where the finish is.

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Whole courseGradientA 260 m hill sprint to the GübsenseeA timed 260 m climb, and 319 m up in the half.

On the 2026 half marathon the organiser scored a mountain-sprint classification, the New Balance Hill Challenge, over the 260 m climb up to the Gübsensee, with a CHF 200 voucher for the fastest woman and man on each distance. Its course page gives the whole half marathon as 319 m up and 321 m down.

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Whole courseGradientHigh point at 5.7 km, low point at 14.5 kmBetween 567 m and 689 m; high at 5.7 km, low at 14.5 km.

The road starts at 656 m and finishes at 653 m above sea level and spans 122 m from its lowest point to its highest. The high point, 689 m, comes at 5.7 km, and the low point, 567 m, at 14.5 km. The climb totals 172 m; the organiser’s own figure is 319 m.

Measured

Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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2 gels for St. Gallen, plus 1 spare

Finish

One every 40 minutes, the orange marks on the profile, by the clock:

  1. km 7.3mile 4.6
  2. km 14.7mile 9.1

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

Easy to forget on race morning: pack them with your bib the night before.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
A tube of electrolyte tablets
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
21.1 km13.1 mi
climb
172.2 m565 ft

The Auffahrtslauf St. Gallen is a hilly course of 21.1 km with 172.2 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 567 m and its highest 689 m above sea level.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 4.78% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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