Bike & Run of La Truffière 2026

"When we set off at the crack of dawn, when we set off on the roads, by bicycle..." 🎶

Lace up your sneakers 👟, adjust your derailleur and get ready to spin! 🚴 Welcome to the Bike & Run of La Truffière in Marcilly-sur-Tille, in the heart of magnificent Bourgogne-Franche-Comté. In Côte-d’Or, no endless monotonous asphalt 👀—the race drops you straight into a natural setting. If your partner starts to overheat and really gets their hackles up, hand them the bike without arguing! Today, Finishers is offering you a new challenge to take on with your buddy, your teammate or your family 👥. You’ll discover the Tille valley in your own way. On the geography and history side, it’s a region packed with discoveries. The area around Is-sur-Tille and Marcilly is full of gems ✨. Crossed by the Tille 🏞️, this corner of the country still hides real truffles 🍄‍🟫 underground... and sometimes even on the bike 🚲, when your partner forgets to make the handover! Between the dense forests 🌳 of Burgundy and the farm tracks 🚜, the terrain offers a tasty blend of local savoir-vivre and fresh air 💨.

So what does the route 🛣️ look like once your hands are on the handlebars? Get ready for a real treat on profiles that are 100% nature 🌱. Three courses await you and your teammate 👭. The little ones kick things off on the Youth Race (2016–2021), a fun and fully secured 2.5 km route. The little monsters learn about handovers with no pressure to earn their very first medal 🥇. Step it up a notch with the Youth Race (2012–2015) of 6 km: distances get longer and the terrain asserts itself 👏. For the older ones, the XS format offers a playful, high-tempo 12 km course. It’s the perfect moment to get initiated into Bike & Run and switch from handlebars to sneakers without losing the thread 🧵. It’s probably the only race where changing your mind along the way is strongly recommended 🤪. On this course, forget long, endless straight lines—make way for winding paths that snake through the woods 🪵. But don’t take the challenge lightly and watch out for your thighs 🦵: a few leg-breaker sections will spice things up before you hit more flowing stretches. If you feel short of breath, it’s not the tire 🛞 that’s punctured—it's just your lungs begging for mercy 🫁. To keep you buzzing during the race, you’ll string together some very technical trails that will force you to pick a perfect line so you don’t jam the bars or bite the dust. And to finish in style, you throw in everything you’ve got left to cross the finish line under the cheers of the crowd 🥳. No need to have a nose like a truffle-hunting dog 🐶 to sniff out a good deal: the refreshments at the finish can be smelled from miles away.

After coughing up a lung and crossing the line with your teammate 🥵, there’s no way you’re leaving without enjoying the local culture. At the Bike & Run of La Truffière, you don’t calculate your time per kilometer to cross the line 🏁, but to arrive on time for apéro! Nothing beats a good gougère, a piece of Cîteaux cheese 🧀 or a dab of local mustard to clear your nostrils 😤 and celebrate the effort as a duo.

In short? Whether you left your brain 🧠 on the pedals or ran like you had a wolf on your heels 🐺, this event proves one thing: with two people, you always go farther—but above all, you laugh twice as much! 🤣

You’ve got just one thing left to do: force find someone crazy enough to go after the stopwatch ⏱️  by your side.