📍 Oman in Jordan

👤 Trail legend, Salameh Al Aqra is an iconic athlete, especially known for his many victories in prestigious races in the Desert.

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Desert Trophy, Marathon of the Sands.

❝❞ The desert teaches man that patience and resolve are the only paths to victory

📍 Lyon (69)

👤 Trail and three-sport coach

🏃‍♂️ 220 Raidlight Desert Trophy

❝❞Remember that everything is possible for those who dream, dare, work, and above all never give up!

📍 Toulouse (31) – Originally from Colombia

👤 Research engineer, mother, passionate trail runner. 8th woman in the Grand Raid of La Réunion 2024. Loves her vegetable garden as much as very (very) steep climbs.

🏃‍♀️ ❤️ Technical ultras & long distances

🎯 The HOKA Val d’Aran (July 2026) and the Black Mountain Trail in Saint Amans Soult - 64km.

❝❞ Explore

📍 Heyrieux (38)

👤 30 years of trail and
ultra trail, always the desire for self-surpassing and sharing

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Diagonal of the Madmen, Chartreuse Trail Festival

🎯 RDT 200 km in Morocco, 24-hour Challenge on the Ventoux Trail, The 3 Days of Chartreuse, Urban Path 5 – 425 km self-supported

❝❞ Whoever thinks about their happiness
finds it 😉

📍 Orléans (45)

👤 General manager of a training center, interpreter in French Sign Language, marathon runner since 2018. 2h43 in 2024 in Paris. Enthusiast of long walks and trail running: GR 20 in 5 days, Kilimanjaro, Cappadocia, Uzbekistan.

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Stage marathons and trail runs

❝❞ Every day is a good day when you run

📍Cagnes-sur-Mer (06)

👤 Handler seller; runner, cyclist, swimmer, as well as a food lover

🏃‍♂️ Diagonal of the Madmen

❝❞May the adventure continue

📍 Chamonix (74)

👤 Trail runner for 12 years, Justine has been fully back on the paths since 2022 with an approach of enjoyment, nature, and sharing.

❄️ Trail, breath-holding, cold water – she likes to push her limits.

📍 Lyon / Saint-Uze (26)

👤 Innkeeper, lover of outdoor adventures

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ OCC

🎯 Return to longer formats: maratrail, OCC

❝❞ Since you don’t have the talent, go for it boldly

📍Blois (41)

👤Professional sports instructor. Addicted to sport since childhood, including gymnastics, dance, running, trail running, cycling, crossfit, and weightlifting.

🏃🏼‍♀️❤️ Saintélyon ✨

❝❞ The road is long but the walk is worth it.

📍 Lyon

👤 Ultra trail runner with red lipstick 💄

🏃‍♂️ LyonSaintéLyon

🎯 UTMB

❝❞ Your only limit is yourself

📍 Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse (38)

👤 Athlete of Life

🏃‍♂️ Chartreuse-Terminorum

🎯 Win the TOR of the Glaciers

❝❞ It always seems impossible until it is done!

📍 Lurcy (01)

👤 Passionate trail runner and lover of good living who enjoys running in good company and sharing a good refreshment after the effort

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Desert Trophy

🎯 2025 a new stage race

❝❞ Alone we go faster, together we go further

📍 Vignoc (35)

👤 Physical education teacher in middle school, passionate about sports since childhood, practicing various outdoor activities: freediving, golf, cycling, paddleboarding, hiking, and of course running (cross-country, trail, road)

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Cross-country and Saintélyon

❝❞ Rise with resolve, lie down with contentment

📍 Annecy

👤 Young father, passionate about the outdoors

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Maxi Race Annecy

🎯 42km of Mont Blanc

❝❞ Don’t wait, live life to the fullest!

📍 Between Paris and the Two Savoy
Region

👤 Young man, 26 years old,
Sales representative in the Rhône-Alpes area, passionate about outdoor sports. I am beginning to build experience in ultra-trail running: in 2025, I took part in 15 trail races, including 2 ultras: the UTB (115 km, 7,000 m ascent) and the Ultra Marin Raid (100 km).

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ UTMB Chamonix

🎯 Goal for 2026: to take my
revenge on the CCC and the Ultra Marin

❝Running for a long time is
learning to have a conversation with oneself❞

📍 Lans-en-Vercors (38)

👤 Asperger Autistic Trail Runner, member of the French adapted sports team, Vice-champion of France

🏃‍♂️❤️ OCC 2025 with the Adaptive Team, the UTMB - and to see races with Teddy

🎯 2026 Program: Winter Trail · Trail Festival, a Great Horned Owl perhaps

📍 Dol-de-Bretagne (35)

👤 Professional firefighter and outdoor sports enthusiast (trail running, mountain biking, road cycling, climbing…)

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Mont-Blanc Marathon

❝❞ Demanding standards lead to excellence

📍 Bastia

👤 Chartered accountant, globe-trotter, vegetarian, passionate about the mountains, the sea, sport, and animals!

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ The madmen’s diagonal

❝❞ Gather the moments, not the things

📍 Montville (76)

👤 Trail runner and loyal to Raidlight for 15 years

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Desert Trophy

❝❞ Do not fear moving slowly, only fear stopping.

📍 Troyes / Sainte Savine

👤 Trail runner late to the sport, firmly focused on Ultra trail

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Diagonal of the mad / 220MX3

❝❞ Pain is temporary, quitting is final

📍 Marseille

👤 Engineer in renewable energies - passionate about outdoor sports

🏃‍♂️ the Skyrace of l’Echappée Belle

❝❞ Smile at life and life will smile back at you

📍 Arfons (81)

👤 Former sailor, he took up trail running in 2014, quickly focusing on long distances.

🏃‍♂️ VVX Volvic, GRP 160, Grand Raid des Cathares, Hivernale des Templiers,

📍 Zagora (Morocco)

👤 Moroccan ultra-runner specializing in desert races, often at the forefront of the Marathon des Sables alongside his brother Rachid, a legendary figure in Saharan ultra-trail.

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Ultra desert and long distances

• 1st at the Marathon des Sables 2023
• 2nd at the Marathon des Sables Legendary 2024 and 2025
• 1st at the Raidlight Desert Trophy 2026

📍 Toulon (83)

👤 Lawyer and all-round grumbling sportsman!

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Raidlight Winter trail & Grand Raid
of Camargue

❝❞ Where there is a will, there is a path to run!

📍 La Bédoule (13)

👤 Reporter, Trainer, YouTuber, OCR athlete

🏃‍♂️ MK6, SpartanRace,

❝❞ Enjoy your life to the fullest; you won’t get a second one!

📍 Alpes-Maritimes (06)

👤 Outdoor content creator and adventurer. "Lara Aventure" shares a committed and genuine approach to adventure, self-reliant and long-distance.

🎯 2026: plans for long journeys (GR10, Nepal), new self-supported crossings

❝ Slowness, effort, and the feeling of the path above all ❞

📍 Greece 🇬🇷

🙎🏼‍♀️Athlete, sports influencer

🏃🏼‍♀️‍➡️Tor des Géants, scenic, UTLaC and Great Himal Race.

❝❞ The world is small, but you can make it larger by living more experiences, travelling and making your heart beat strongly, for all hearts beat, but the difference lies in the strength of their beating!

📍 Hauterives (26)

👤 Energy renovation technician,
The end of an obese man (146 kgs) through the rebirth of a trail runner 7 years ago....

🏃‍♂️ The endurance trail of the Templars

❝❞ The only limits are those we set ourselves

📍 Rouen (76)

👤 Passionate about heritage, art, and history, I have explored many sports, from tennis and figure skating in my youth, to triathlon, cycling, trail running, fitness, and weight training.

🏃‍♀️ ❤️ The SainteLyon, a magical night

❝❞ Train Hard, Look Nice

📍 Plestin les Grèves (22)

👤 Fruit and vegetable worker, local press correspondent. Deeply attached to my Breton region, the hills, trail running, cycling, and hiking. Practicing trail running since 2007

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ 100km across the Arrée Hills in Brittany

❝❞ freedom and taking the time to enjoy the landscapes

📍 Moselle, Grand East

👤 Nurse in the National Education

🏃‍♀️ ❤️ The Monteynard maratrail

🎯 The dreadful Vosges trail 70km

❝❞ What does not kill me… had better run fast!

📍 La Chapelle-en-Serval (60)

👤 Engineer by training, organiser of sporting events, passionate about long-distance races and adventures

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ The 24H of the Wolf, of course 🐺

❝❞ We adapt, we improvise, we master

📍 Aureilhan (40)

👤 Firefighter, long-distance runner between 80 and 120 km.

🏃‍♂️ Great Pyrenees Trek

❝❞ Our only limit is the one we set ourselves

📍Besançon

👤 Graduate student in the second year of a Master’s in Sports Management. Practices trail running with the Grand Besançon Trail Academy in the hopeful team

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Ultra Marin 175km, my first ultra at 21 years old 😍

❝❞ Young trail runner in search of ultras, passionate about the mountains

📍 Brussels (Belgium)

👤 A police officer by trade undergoing a career change, Joachim left everything behind to fully live his passion for trail running. He takes on extreme challenges and shares every step with his community. His motto? Prepare the mind as much as the legs.

🏃‍♂️❤️ SwissPeaks 360, No Finish Line Brussels (350 km), 24h of Bruniquel, HexaTrek in 82 days

📍 Crest, at the foot of the Vercors (26)

👤 38 years old, young father. Programmer in the aircraft industry and runner both in the mountains and on roads. Part of the elite trail team but now focused on new racing experiences.

🏃‍♂️❤️ The 6000D

📍 Island of La Réunion

👤 Public health officer, sports trainer, and athlete.

🏃‍♂️❤️ Diagonal of the Madmen (4th participation)

🎯 Flora Ultra Trail

❝❞ Nature is always stronger than man; it is by accepting it that one finds true strength.

📍 Grenoble (38)

👤 Student at INP Ense3 and has competed in ski mountaineering since the age of 14, and more recently in trail running as well.

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Sierre-Zinal

❝❞ Only disciplined people are free!

📍 Méziré (90)

👤 Automotive and energy design engineer, RAIDLIGHT Ambassador since 2012, Ultra-Trailer since 2020, Mountain & Trail, Road-Runner.

🏃‍♂️❤️ Grand-Raid, Échappée Belle, Terminorum

❝❞ The important thing is not the summit, but the path.

📍 Chamonix in summer, Les 2 Alpes in winter – and often roaming between the two seasons.

👤 Mother, mountain guide and trail coach. Self-improvement and respect for the mountain are my driving forces.

🏃‍♀️❤️ Great memories in relays at the Saintélyon, never far from the podium. I have been discovering ultras for a year, and I love it.

📍 Chamonix in summer, Les 2 Alpes in winter – and in between, always a bit wandering.

👤 Mountain guide, trail coach… and father! I love sharing the mountain with passion and humility.

🏃‍♂️❤️ Diagonal of the Madmen 2015: my very first ultra, on an island I was discovering and erupting. Unforgettable.

📍 Sélestat in Alsace

👤 Receptionist and trail and Nature enthusiast

🏃‍♂️❤️ Grand Est Trail by UTMB 

🎯 MDS 2026

❝❞ Quote: we understand nature by resisting it

Thomas & Mario
📍 Grenoble, Vercors

👤 Ultra-endurance pair, alpine hunters, united by running and adventure

🏃‍♂️ ❤️ Trail, ultra, self-sufficiency, alpine and desert terrains

🎯 2026: Jordan Sables Marathon, alpine projects as a duo

❝❞ Running together, farther than alone.

📍 Spechbach (Alsace)

👤 Manager of a sports shop in Switzerland and father of twins, former footballer turned trail running enthusiast and self-improvement seeker.

🏃❤️ UTMB Alsace 50 km, Petit Ballon Marathon, Mont-Blanc Marathon.

🎯 Goal: UTMB Alsace 100 km, OCC, Nice 50 km and, eventually, the Diagonal of the Madmen.

📸 Instagram: @petitefouleegrandssommets

📍 Dijon

👤 Engineer and athlete at heart, his mantras are surpassing oneself, discovery, self-reliance, freedom.

🏃❤️ Canigou Trail (2010), his finest achievement the Eiger E51 (2014), his dream day the TDS 2015

🎯2026: RDT Trans Sahara 200k, Ventoux Trail (French championship),
Raidlight Trail Festival...

❝❞ the less you go forward the faster, the more you go forward the slower 😁

📍 Le Bourg-d'Oisans (38)

👤 Rescue ranger, lover of nature and effort

🏃‍♀️ ❤️ The Diagonal of the Madmen

❝❞ No pain, no gain

📍 Pontcharra (38)

👤 Former veterinarian turned schoolteacher, mother, and passionate runner in all its forms.

🏃‍♀️ ❤️ Trail, road & various distances

🎯 2026: Raidlight Desert Trophy, WinterTrail Chartreuse (16 km), Moonlight Marathon (Annecy), 6D Crêtes (21 km), Serre Chevalier Trail (40 km), duo trail at Glières, Chartreuse Backyard

❝ ❞ Trail running is an individual sport, but the group often makes the difference

📍Sari d’Orcino (Corsica)

👤 Corsican trail runner, 30 years old, business owner, proud father and mountain enthusiast.

🏃‍♂️❤️ 7th Restonica Trail 70 km by UTMB (2023) • 3rd Trail de la Gravona 42 km (2024)

📸 Instagram: @gwenmael.r

📍 Balaruc-Les-Bains (34)

👤 Engineer, computer specialist, running on foot for 25 years, fan of stage races in the desert with heat, sand, and self-sufficiency.

🏃‍♂️❤️ Marathon Des Sables Legendary

🎯 A short trip in a desert then some Alpine or Pyrenean trail runs before setting out for the first time on the Diag

❝❞Running seriously harms health problems

📍 St-Pierre-de-Chartreuse.

👤 Long-distance runner.

🏃‍♂️❤️ The Grand Raid of Réunion Island.

🎯 24h of Isère, La Terminorum, the Tor of the Giants.

❝❞ Life is too short not to run in the rain. Chartrousin proverb 🙃

📍 Pyrénées

👤 Magali lives and runs in the mountains where she grew up. An insurance salesperson, she sees trail running as a way to foster meetings and sharing.

🏃‍♂️❤️ Early 2024: podium on her very first race! Since then, she has been taking on distances between 20 and 50 km, with the Templiers and the Diagonale des Fous in her sights.

❝ ❞I want to highlight the local, the sport, and the preservation of our playgrounds.

📍Saint Etienne 💚

👤 Outdoor writer/ Trail runner and YT content creator

🏃‍♂️❤️ the Saintelyon

❝❞On the Road Again‼️

📍 Saint Julien (83)

👤 Policeman in the south of France and proud father of two daughters. I have always been a runner, a trail runner for about fifteen years.

🏃‍♂️❤️ The SaintéLyon

❝❞ To win is not to finish in first place. It is not to beat others. To win is to conquer oneself. To overcome our body, our limits, and our fears. To win is to surpass oneself and turn dreams into reality.

📍 Grenoble (38)

👤 Belgian physiotherapist and sports teacher settled at the foot of the Chartreuse, passionate about trail running and mountains.

🏃‍♀️❤️ TMB 2024, Crossing of the Chartreuse and Trail Verbier Saint-Bernard 2025.

📍 Izmir, Turkey

👤 Trail runner passionate about the mountains, travel, and photography.

🏃‍♀️❤️ 4th place and 1st in her category at the Babadağ Ultra 26K.

🎯 Improving on long distances and discovering new paths between Turkey and Europe.