Urban Trails

In the Urban Trail (also known as city trail), the race takes place in the city setting. A unique opportunity to discover cities from a new angle, with a different perspective. Running is a magnificent way to discover the Earth. Practicing urban trail is rediscovering the city, its landscapes, its scenery... Stairs, parks, streets, monuments, and other city markers are all yours! 🏘

If Lyon is the capital of Lights, it is also the capital of Urban Trail 🚩. Since 2007, it offers its rich setting to the Lyon Urban Trail, the first event organized in Europe. Like trail running, urban trail offers routes mixing flat segments with ascents, descents, more or less technical passages… 🤩 Asphalt is of course part of it, but you'll also have the opportunity to traverse dirt paths, cobblestones of old towns, or even sometimes sand 🌊 (for urban trails by the seaside)… Balance, agility, and power are required, as well as strong legs! The urban trail will allow you to make the city your own by crossing sometimes secret places 🤫. Summer and winter; day and night, you can also see it in new colors... 🎨

Urban trails are not necessarily standardized in terms of distances, choose the one that motivates you 🕺. Few routes indeed exceed 30 kilometers. Despite the youth of the Urban Trail, offerings are plentiful, and the calendar of urban trails in France is growing year by year 📆. You will be able to test your headlamp at the Fougères Urban Trail (Brittany) or at the Lyon Urban Trail (LUT for insiders). Among the classics, let us mention the Saumurban Trail, the Rennes Urban Trail, the Lille Urban Trail or even that of Cannes. In Bastia, you can discover rehabilitated neighborhoods with the Spassighjata. You will also find the Cergy Pontoise Urban Trail. Football enthusiasts ⚽️, and we know there are many here, will be able to tread the mythical ground of the Velodrome by participating in the event Orange Velodrome Trail. That is also Urban Trail: atypical settings 🤗.

Completing your practice of trail running with urban trail is ultimately about opening up to the whole of France and its countless charms! Its countless secrets, one might be tempted to say after having traversed the traboules of Lyon… 📰