Friday

18.00 – 20.00: Race office open, pick-up bib numbers at Hotel Wolf.

Saturday

05.15 – 07.00: Race office open, pick-up bib numbers at Hotel Wolf.
06.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 70km
07.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 49km
09.00 - 10.00: Race office open, pick-up bib numbers at Hotel Wolf.
10.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 37km
13.00 - 14.00: Race office open, pick-up bib numbers at Hotel Wolf.
14.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 19km
19.30: End

Sunday

09.00 - 12.00: Race office open, pick-up bib numbers at Hotel Wolf.
10.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 33km
11.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 16km
12.00: Start Trail du Grand Ballon 24km
16.30: End of the event.

Award ceremony (per distance) is provided 15min after arrival of the 3rd athlete.

This schedule is not final and is subject to change. The final schedule will be confirmed in the briefing one week prior to the event

Each participant receives ALL the GPX files one week before the event.
Courses are indicated with signs of the organization.
Please respect the start time of your distance as the opening hours of our refreshment points are based on the start times.

Water, isotonic drinks, coca-cola, Etixx energy bars, sandwiches, sweet and savoury snacks and other goodies will be available at the refreshment points.

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.

More information under the tab "distances"

You can find a selection of photos on our Facebook page a few days after the event. These photos can also be viewed by people who don't have a Facebook account.

During the Trail du Grand Ballon, the Sportograf team will be on hand to take the best photos of you in action. You can find your personal photos via the link below or by clicking on the icon next to your name in the results list.

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.