This morning as we were getting ready for church we heard fireworks going off. Well that is unusual for a Sunday morning! Oh yeah, it's the ninth annual Vannes Marathon which goes along the beautiful gulf and through the old historical part of the city. We estimated there were about 1500 runners running this marathon. You could do it solo or as a two person team.
These runners are running through one of the city gates called the "Prison Gate" which was originally a gate to the city prison. The runner with the purple wind socket on his back is the pace setter for this group of runners running a four hour pace.
Cindy S., if only your visit was a month earlier I could have been taking pictures of you running this marathon! What was amazing to Dave and I was the fact there were no barriers to stop people from walking on the course. If you click on the picture you can see the three ladies walking through the narrow opening as the runners come around the corner.
Here runners are running on this rough cobble stone narrow road between the shops and restaurants.
The race course was marked with orange arrows on the road. Meghan said she followed the arrows home from swimming on Friday and noticed that the race would be coming down the street where we live. So just as Dave and I were arriving home, I was able to get a picture of the very last runner. As I cheered him on, a big smile came over his face. The cyclist had a sign on the bike "fin de course".
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