It starts in 8 days! The famous running competition, the Veni vici, will see all its runners set off November 9 at 8 a.m. Since the duchy of Uzès.
Au programme of this highly anticipated fourth edition, six coursesranging from 13 to 82km.
Come 2024, what are the routes?
With or without elevation gain, all running levels will be represented. Once again, participants will explore several towns in Uzège Pont du Gard, different emblematic sites.
Great new feature: the route will close in Nîmes.
- Rando 13 km: Departure from 8:15 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. – left bank Pont du Gard. Arrival at Pont du Gard – Remoulins. Elevation difference of 320 meters.
- Run 14 km : Departure 2:30 p.m. – left bank Pont du Gard. Arrival at Pont du Gard – Remoulins. Elevation difference of 320 meters D+.
- Run 27 km : Departure 10 a.m. – Uzès (30). Arrival at Pont du Gard – Remoulins. Elevation difference of 700 meters D+.
- Nordic walking 27km: Departure 12 p.m. – Uzès (30). Arrival at Pont du Gard – Remoulins. Elevation difference of 700 meters D+.
- Run 47 km : Departure: 11 a.m. – Pont du Gard – right bank, Remoulins (30). Arrival in Nîmes (30). Elevation gain of 1250 D+.
- Run 82 km : Departure: 8:00 a.m. – in Uzès (30). Arrival in Nîmes (30). Elevation gain of 2200 D+.
Note that shuttles will be offered from Nîmes to get to the start in Uzès.
The 82km, the flagship event!
This 82 km is the queen distance of the Veni vici. “The most beautiful and varied. Which is being improved by 10 km in order to offer great new features. We will be entitled to a complete ascent of the Roman aqueduct (in the direction of the water) which supplied Nîmes more than 2000 years ago, starting from the Fontaine d'Eure in Uzès. If runners were among us in 2023, prepare to lose all your bearings, it will never go up and down in the same places“, announces the organization.
The start will be given at 8 a.m.00at the foot of the superb Medieval Duchy of Uzès. The runners will immediately be immersed in the atmosphere of the Roman aqueduct in the Eure valley where it had its source, before an unprecedented climb into the surrounding hills, then the race will head towards the villages of Saint Maximin andArgilliers.
After a few convolutions in the hills, the runners will pass through the Vers stone quarries where the stones used in the construction of the Pont du Gard were extracted. Then it will be a festival of Romanness after the typical village of Vers-Pont du Gard, with a series of remains of the arches of the aqueduct, up to the Pont du Gard which you will tread 2000 years after the Roman soldiers. Thrill guaranteed, with a refreshment.
This will be followed by St-Bonnet-du-Gard, the site of astonishing underground tunnels of Sernhac, the castles of Lédenon or even Cabrières… Finally, the Mas d’Escattes,The finish towards Nemausus will be “playful and a bit of a nuisance”. Then the Tour Magne, before sliding down the slope of the green Jardins de la Fontaine, passing at the foot of the Maison Carrée, until the final sprint in the thousand-year-old Arena of Roman Nîmes, the final passage of this great route.
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Infos : lavenivici.com/parcours/
