caen millennium challenge :
1,000 YEARS, 1,000 KM OF BIBS TO WIN
With 100 days to go before the biggest running event in the Grand Ouest, whose 38ᵉ edition will take place from June 12 to 15, 2025, the organization and the Millénaire de Caen are teaming up for a community sports challenge, offering 1,000 km of bibs to be won on the various D-Day Landings Marathon events.
An initiative where sport and culture merge
Is your favourite D-Day Landings Marathon 2025 event sold out? Good news! The organization has kept the last bibs of certain events warm for a few months for a community running challenge as part of the Millénaire de Caen.
For three weeks, running enthusiasts are invited to run at least 1,000 meters in a place close to their heart in the greater Caen area, and to share their activity on Strava, the application used to record, analyze and share sporting performances. The aim? Contribute to highlighting the diversity and richness of the region's heritage, while having the chance to win a bib for one of the D-Day Landings Marathon events, whose DNA is based on promoting the region's historical treasures.
This approach illustrates the shared determination of the D-Day Landings Marathon and the GIP Millénaire de Caen 2025 to promote the Caen area as a land of sport and culture. Between city and nature, history and modernity, this initiative allows participants to rediscover their territory from another angle, while celebrating 1,000 years of history in motion.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
1. Join the D-Day Landings Marathon Club on Strava.
2. Click on "I want to take part" in the Strava event "Draw I Challenge Millénaire de Caen".
3. Run at least 1,000 meters in the greater Caen area between March 7 and 28, 2025.
4. Publish your outing in the D-Day Landings Marathon club, specifying the event for which you are taking part in the challenge:
- 10km - Crédit Agricole Normandie ;
- Pegasus Half Marathon;
- the D-Day Landings Marathon.
5. 1,000 km of bibs will be awarded to participants in a random draw on Monday March 31, 2025.
Ready to take up the challenge? It's the perfect opportunity to celebrate Caen's millennium while sharing your passion for running.
CHALLENGE RULES
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
The draw is open exclusively to riders not registered for one of the three events concerned by the challenge at the time of the launch of the operation, i.e. from March 7.
Draw eligibility criteria
- Activities must be recorded via Strava.
- Click on "I want to take part" in the Strava event "Draw I Challenge Millénaire de Caen".
- Outings must be published on the Club D-Day Landings Marathon between March 7 and 28, 2025. To share your outing, open your activity in the application, select "Post Strava", and publish your outing in the club, specifying the event for which you are taking part in the challenge among the 10km - Crédit Agricole Normandie, the Pegasus Half Marathon or the D-Day Landings Marathon. Your account must be in public so that your activity is visible to the organization and taken into account.
- Your outing must take place in one of the towns in the Caen la Mer conurbation. Caen la Mer : Authie, Bénouville Biéville-Beuville, Blainville-sur-Orne, Bourguébus, Bretteville-sur-Odon, Caen, Cairon, Cambes-en-Plaine, Carpiquet, Castine-en-Plaine, Colleville-Montgomery, Colombelles, Cormelles-le-Royal, Cuverville, Démouville, Épron, Éterville, Fleury-sur-Orne, Giberville, Grentheville, Hermanville-sur-Mer, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, Ifs, Le Castelet, Le Fresne-Camilly, Lion-sur-Mer, Louvigny, Mathieu, Mondeville, Mouen, Ouistreham, Périers-sur-le-Dan, Rosel, Rots, Saint-André-sur-Orne, Saint-Aubin-d'Arquenay, Saint-Contest, Saint-Germain-la-Blanche-Herbe, Saint-Manvieu-Norrey, Sannerville, Soliers, Thaon, Thue et Mue, Tourville-sur-Odon, Troarn, Verson, Villons-les-Buissons.
- Only one entry per person is permitted.
RAFFLE AND ALLOCATION OF BIBS
- Only participants who have complied with the above conditions of participation are eligible.
- Winners will be drawn at random from among eligible participants and contacted by private message on Strava on March 31, 2025.
- Winners will be contacted individually in the order of the draw. Once the 1,000 km of bibs have been allocated according to the event chosen by each person, no further bib will be available as part of the challenge.
CONDITIONS OF USE OF WINNED bibs
The bibs won as part of the operation are strictly nominative and prohibited from transfer or resale, whether on the D-Day Landings Marathon bibs exchange or any other illegal resale platform.
