Trail des Vallées du Chevalier (TVDC)

About the race

The Trail des Vallées du Chevalier starts at the Wartet football ground and heads out to the rock faces and ravines of Marche-les-Dames. There are three distances, set off in reverse order: the 33 kilometres with a thousand metres of climbing at nine, the 21 with 660 at ten and the 10 with 350 at eleven. What gives this trail its reputation are the rope sections — in several places you haul yourself up on a rope, which is why the organisers strongly advise gloves. In between lie rocky ravines and a passage by the quarry. The 21 alternates steep climbs with rolling stretches that let the legs recover; the 10 is deliberately set up as an entry-level format.