“Parisians, Toulouse, Lyonnais, Bretons, a few foreigners…” Le Loup Blanc, a national-scale trail in full preparation

“Known as the white wolf” could be the motto of the biggest sporting event in Creuse. The 18th edition of this trail is held on December 7 and 8 in the Guéret mountains. Nearly 2,000 participants from all over France will warm up their legs and calves over a dozen races. The organizers are preparing the event.

The Loup Blanc trail is in a few days on December 7 and 8 and the volunteers are busy. In one afternoon, they prepared bibs and racing equipment for all those registered, a real marathon!

In each envelope, we have a bib and then we have chips for the timing system. We put small labels to know when they should take their shuttle or bus. We have just over 2,000.

Julien Babeix

president of the Sports Athlétiques Marchois club, organizer of the trail

2,000 registered and the organizers are refusing people. A Creuse trail now known as the White Wolf, suffice to say that it lives up to its name.

“We have about 450 Creusois, 450 Haut-Viennois, a few Corréziens who got lost. And then we have a lot of people who come from all over the place, not bad Paris region and then a few Toulouse residents, a few Lyonnais, a few Bretons , some foreigners, enthuses trail co-organizer Julien Babeix. So, we are happy with the national dimension of our trail and that is really pleasant for a small association like ours.”

What makes trail runners run is the beauty of the routes, renewed every year by the organizers. The Guéret mountains are a playground that allows for inexhaustible combinations of circuits, dotted with emblematic sites.

“We have the Civières stones, the Parc aux Loups and its surroundings, the Chiroux woods, the Chabrières forest. We have lots of places where we can take them, with totally different places each time. It can be small passages of wood which can be very nice, a climb which is a little bit teasing. What we especially want is for people to have as much pleasure in doing the routes as we do, we have pleasure in imagining them, in them. prepare them and propose. If we managed that, we had a good race.”

Surprising local runners and attracting visitors, that’s the challenge of the 12 races open to all ages, from 1 km to nearly 90 km. See you on December 7 for the big departure in Saint-Vaury.