With the original running races and staggered, running has rejuvenated. We do not just run to stay in shape and we do not drag any more feet to get into it. More and more of us are responding to the call of running. And that, brands and sponsors have understood. Fun races are multiplying in France and their organization is drawing more and more people.

Color Run, Electric Run, Mud Day ... full carton for fun runs

The races on foot also stop to renew themselves. The goal is not only to travel a few miles running, but especially to do it in joy and good mood . Based on this observation, several quirky and original running races have appeared, first among our European neighbors, then with us in France.

And at every fun race, its goal. The goal of the Run or Dye and the Color Run is to cross the finishing line covered with colored powder. More athletic this time, the Mud Day running race is more of a survival race than a run: participants have to cross an obstacle course full of obstacles. The Electric Run , for its part, runs at night, wearing bright and fluorescent accessories. The Caribbean Race puts the Caribbean in the spotlight: it is practiced in a festive spirit, under the percussion of orchestras present for the occasion.

The French and running: a story that rolls

After its first organization in France in 2013 and its 13,000 participants, The Mud Day invests 9 French cities in 2015 and counts nearly 80,000 participants. Very good figures also on the side of the Color Run which gathers 20 000 participants in Paris in 2015.

No wonder this kind of fun races are full of participants when we know the craze of the French for running and running . According to the "barometer of running" 2013-2014, a study conducted by KantarMedia and UniTeam for La Caisse d'Epargne:
- 7.8 million French people aged 15 and over practice running at least once a month in 2014. Against 5.9 million in 2013.
- The number of runners has increased by 1.4 million in one year . 4.4 million men and 3.4 million women are running in 2014 (compared to 3.9 million men and 2 million women in 2013).
- In 2013, 1 in 4 cyclists participated in at least one race in competition and 1 out of 6 has already organized a running race .