Foulées_du_Gois
Foulées du Gois
Annual road running race held on the Passage du Gois tidal causeway in France
The Foulées du Gois (French pronunciation: [fule dy ɡwa]) is an international road running race held annually on the Passage du Gois, a tidal causeway between Beauvoir-sur-Mer and the Île de Noirmoutier, France. The professional race, held over the submerged causeway, is from one end of the causeway to the other, a distance of 4.15 kilometres (2.58 mi).[1] A series of alternate races are undertaken earlier in the day, when the tide is not over the causeway, for youth and non-professional divisions; the adult non-elite divisions are 8.3 kilometres (5.2 mi) in length, a round trip of the Passage du Gois.[2] The event is the second-most publicised in the département of Vendée (85), after the Vendée Globe round-the-world yacht race.[3]