Bar-le-Duc. The Health Walk returns Sunday with three routes to promote physical activity.

Walking is easy, you can do it at your own pace, it costs nothing, and it's good for your health. This is what the Meuse Primary Health Insurance Fund (CPAM) wants to remind people by organizing its 38th Health Walk on Sunday, September 14, starting at 9 a.m. in the Haut-Juré forest in Bar-le-Duc.

This event, organized every two years, is part of the prevention actions implemented by the CPAM: raising awareness of the beneficial effects of physical activity at any age, disseminating health messages, and establishing a close relationship with policyholders.

This march is supported by around ten partners in the health and solidarity sectors. As part of this initiative, a collection of plastic bottle caps for the Handi'chiens association is being organized.

The start and finish will be from the shooting range (access via the Bar-le-Duc/Saint-Dizier D635 axis or the Bar-le-Duc/Montplonne D152 axis). Adapted signage will allow easy access and parking will be provided for walkers.

This walk, where everyone goes at their own pace, is free, without registration, and open to all. Three marked routes will be open from 9 a.m.: 5 km (last departure at 3 p.m.), 10 km (last departure at 2 p.m.), and 15 km (last departure at 1 p.m.). Refreshment points will be located throughout the circuits.

A competition will allow one participant to win a bicycle offered by the Meuse Primary Health Insurance Fund. The winner will be chosen by random draw in September from among the entries containing all the correct answers to the quiz submitted at the start.

Children up to the age of 12 will be given a pencil case at the start, along with various tasks they will be given along the way. A smoothie bike will be waiting for walkers at the finish line.

Social security was founded at the end of the Second World War, in October 1945. To mark its 80th anniversary, a joint stand, staffed by agents of the Meuse Primary Health Insurance Fund and the Meuse Family Allowance Fund, will be set up at the health village. A stand-based activity will allow participants to try to win prizes through a fun and educational quiz.