Corrida de Fère 2026

Corrida de Fère is a 12 km road race in Fère-Champenoise, a town in the Marne department of Grand Est in north-eastern France. It is run around late November and is nicknamed the "Course aux patates," or Potato Race, a local label that gives the event more personality than a standard town run. The route stays in town, so runners get a city-course 12 km rather than a countryside trail or long-distance challenge. Several hundred runners usually line up, and the race is old enough in Marne running circles to be approaching its fortieth edition. The tone around it is friendly but not soft: one local line sums it up as, "You finish rinsed, but not mashed."