Runs & Hikes

This part of the website is populated and maintained by me, Erik. As a lifelong runner, I started plotting runs in the region immediately upon arrival. Below I have compiled my favourites so far, as a service for any fellow enthusiast that might visit our house.

Fair warning first - this part of the region is butting up against the outskirts of the mighty Massif Central, meaning that there will be a fair bit of undulating elevation in most every direction you turn. Truly flat running is therefor hard to come by, and what little there is is still at least one non-trivial climb away from the village. So unless you are an experienced runner, there will be no easy runs here in the traditional sense.

With that disclaimer in place, there is still some great running to be had. And as long as you don’t mind power walking a bit at times, many of the shorter suggestions are certainly doable for runners of all abilities. Just be smart and avoid the worst mid-day heat if you are here in the warm season.

The suggestions are color coded according to the European rating system for alpine ski slopes, which is not meant to suggest that they are correspondingly steep (it is hilly here, but not that hilly). This is simply for the ease of using an established and for many familiar system. For those not familiar, courses will fall into one of four categories:

Easy

Intermediate

Difficult

Very difficult