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Showers will be available in the City Wash trailer in the parking lot opposite registration.
This trailer also has changing rooms.
Please wear clean shoes only.

We offer storage facilities inside the Wolf Hotel, next to the race secretariat.
No clothing will be accepted. Only (sports) bags will be accepted.

Map

The start follows the 'rolling start' principle. Your time only starts once you cross the starting line. A free start is also possible up to 15 minutes after the rolling start.

Toilets are available along the hotel near the start and next to the building of the syndicats mixte.

The toilets in the Hotel Wolf cannot be used. The Markstein site is under video surveillance, and the use of toilets not provided by the organization may result in sanctions.

Site map

Please throw your waste in the designated bins (or keep it with you).

Several bins will be available at the aid stations as well as at the Markstein site (start and finish).

All the distances of the Grand Ballon Trail are marked with reflective arrows on an orange background and black arrows on an orange background

The junctions are clearly marked.
However, we recommend that you download the GPX file.

Did you order a t-shirt and/or a medal?
You can collect them before or after your trail by presenting your bib at the designated stand.

Did you order a folding cup?
You can pick it up at the race office.

As from 1 April 2024, the Fédération Française d'Athlétisme has introduced its Parcours Prévention Santé (PPS), a system that replaces the traditional medical certificate of eligibility for all adults.

This represents a major simplification of the enrolment process: Participants will be able to complete a Parcours de Prévention Santé (PPS) online, instead of the traditional medical examination to provide a medical certificate stating that there are no counterindications to participate.

You don't need to go to the doctor anymore ! Then you upload this PPS into your SQM Time account and that's it

In practice, this means that runners, when registering for the race of their choice, must log on to the dedicated web platform pps.athle.fr during the three months prior to their race and follow the various steps designed to make people aware of the risks, precautions and recommendations associated with running, through educational content (text and video).

Watch some online prevention videos (5 min), download a PDF , Deliver it to the organiser and you're done.

Participants with a French licence, who already had to take the health prevention course when obtaining their licence, will be exempted from these PPS procedures for each competition, as it was already the case in the past with the system of medical certificates.

Concretely this means that you can choose between

• • uploading your valid French athletics licence on sqmtime.com

• • uploading your valid PPS certificate as from 3 months before the event via sqmtime.com as the PPS is only valid for 3 months

To Do

Go to the website https://pps.athle.fr – fill in all the details and watch the videos. Then you can download the PPS.
Then you still need to upload it in your SQM account.

1. Log in to your account https://www.sqmtime.com/index.php?route=account/login
2. At the top right of the menu, click on ‘upload medical certificate/licence'
3. On the left, upload your PPS where you would normally upload the medical certificate

See an example of what such a certificate looks like below.