About

A splinter group of runners with no talent, and proud of it.

Since 2013, Jolie Foulée has had one clear mission: to drag running down. Self-proclaimed untalented runners, and we say it with clear eyes and plenty of self-mockery. That doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate performance; it means we’ve accepted our status as low-level athletes.

We have a soft spot for old-school running: village races, their authenticity, their down-to-earth, sometimes kitsch charm.

Jolie Foulée is first and foremost a bunch of mates who found each other through a love of running, whatever their natural gifts or level, just to spend time together at training, on race weekends or on any excuse to get together, do a bit of sport and a lot of partying. It’s a way-too-colourful, festive world, where humour and self-mockery are mostly a way of telling it like it is. After races, we love winding each other up, sharing our experiences with you on our socials or in articles right here, and sometimes throwing a huge party, like our now-legendary Paris Marathon after-parties.

On the site, you’ll find these sections:

> PC course: race reports and no-nonsense report cards

> News: running news, our way

> Tests: tests

> Interviews: people we like trying to give smart answers to our dumb questions

> Spé JF: our in-house formats

Behind all this, the contributors are those of us who can write three sentences without a spelling mistake. They write because they want to, not because an editor-in-chief makes them.

For partnerships, content creation, taking part in or organising events, our double life takes over. By day, some of us swap the floaty shorts for an inbox full of emails signed off “Sportingly”, under the name Pas Mal !. Contact: perf@pasmalsolutions.com.

Follow us on Instagram @joliefoulee, and subscribe to our newsletter right here.

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