It takes place around Brittany over three days and three nights from Naoned (Nantes) to Karaez (Carhaix).
Its aim is to raise funds each year to finance a project promoting the Breton language.
One fund-raising method in this event is payment by each runner of 100 euros for the privilege of bearing the baton over a kilometre.
The funds raised in the 2008 edition of the race will benefit the Diwan Schools, through which the French Ministry of Education curriculum is taught using the Breton language.
[citation needed] French governments have traditionally refused to give official status to any of the many languages spoken in France such as Alsatian, Basque, Breton, Catalan, Corsican, Dutch (West Flemish) and Occitan, to mention only the better known continental ones.