Published on October 6, 2024 at 5:36 p.m. / Modified on October 6, 2024 at 8:27 p.m.
On the train to Murten, a forty-year-old woman tells her friend that she is in good shape, “even if Michel cooked the game last night and, well, there was a splash or two of red.” The other laughs and admits that the aches and pains from last week’s half-marathon haven’t stopped bothering him, “but it will be fine after the warm-up – surely”. In the next compartment, two football players – the trainings are no mistake – humbly announce their objective of “beating the Kenyans”, perhaps even “by running backwards”, and they laugh: “We are already going to try to finish without getting too hard…”
Morat-Fribourg, the oldest foot race in the country, experienced its 90th edition this weekend and it produces these kinds of immutable scenes year after year. There are also the Guggenmusik crackling as the competitors pass at the foot of the Sonnaz, the dreaded climb located shortly before the 12th of the 17,170 kilometers of the course. The elites overtaking the amateurs like Formula 1 cars on a highway. The tables set up by local residents to enjoy the show while enjoying the show. The winner brandishing a linden branch as he crosses the finish line. Popular success has not always remained at the same level.
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