Le Josselin Crugel 2026

The Le Josselin Crugel is a small early-summer race in Morbihan, Brittany, linking Cruguel with Josselin rather than looping around one town. The classic race is a 12 km road-and-nature course, while newer listings also show a 10 km run and walking options of 6 km and 12 km. Its most distinctive finish is beside the Oust canal at the foot of Josselin’s medieval castle. The route is mostly downhill but not flat, with about 150 metres of climbing and a 1 km uphill section around the seventh kilometre. It uses mainly roads, adds a stabilized path around a pond, and passes places such as Trévadoret, Le Sedon, Le Champs Blanc, and Guégon. The race began in June 1986 as a 17 km run from Pont Mareuc in Josselin to the stadium in Cruguel, organized largely by members and football players from AS Cruguel. Organizers later reversed the direction after the original Josselin-to-Cruguel route proved too much of an uphill pull. The event once hosted the Brittany 15 km championship, including an early separate women’s start, and it still keeps a local-race feel with runner T-shirts, participant gifts for walkers and rollers, prize money, trophies, shuttles from Josselin, and a prize draw.