Corrida Pédestre d'Auch

If with your sneakers 👟 on your feet you want to end the year in style 🎆, then you should run the Corrida pédestre d’Auch! No desire to enchant you with this sentence 🪄, but if you want a challenge before the Saint-Sylvestre this urban race is made for you 🤠. The city d’Artagnan will welcome you as it should and make you a real musketeer 🤺, well no, a real runner 🏃‍♀️ who will handle the routes better than the sword! 🗡️

For this Corrida Pédestre which is celebrating its 37e édition, you can come to have fun or to perform 🥳. This race is a popular festival where you can come dressed in your best outfit 👯, it’s time to be bold, it’s the last month of the year! The encouragement will keep rhythm throughout your journey in an festive, warm and convivial 🎊. The temperatures will be rather cool 🥶, but no doubt the people of Auscitain will warm your heart 🫶. This 8.4 km course is fairly easy and rolling, but watch out for right-angle turns 📐 that can sometimes hurt your legs 🦵. Finishing the year in style has never been more meaningful, the course gives you the opportunity to discover this beautiful and rich Gascon culture 😍. You’ll start the race near the Ortholan garden 💐, a true theater of greenery. Then you’ll tread the iconic banks of the Gers that will lead you to the must-see Tour d’Armagnac and Cathédrale Sainte-Marie ⛪. As a bonus, like a gift under the tree 🎄 after the hour, there are also children’s races 🧒. Auch offers three formats: 800, 1 400 and 2 000 meters, to delight kids and grown-ups.

After the race, what better than tasting the superb Gascon cuisine. Local products will please your taste buds 👄, you can sample the delicious foie gras 🦆, a salted ham or enhance one of your dishes with the famous piment doux de Gascogne 🌶️. And, to crown it all and aid digestion, treat yourself to a glass of Côte de Gascogne produced in the vineyards of the department 🍷. The Gers will give you comfort after your effort 🥰. Once your taste buds are satisfied, let your eyes take over and calmly admire (because during the race you passed by at lightning speed ⚡) the iconic monuments of the city 🤩. The Cathédrale Sainte-Marie will impress you with its 102 meters of length and especially with its magnificent stained glass in a thousand colors 🎨, a work by Arnaud de Moles. In short, you’ll exercise, you’ll feast, and you’ll have your fill of sights. A perfect recipe to end the year 2025, right? 🎬

Be like Alexandre Dumas, come write a part of your story in the Gers! ✍️