Otter African Trail Run - The Challenge

Name: Otter African Trail Run - The Challenge
Start: 2024-10-02T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-10-03T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Storms River Mouth Rest Camp

Schedule

Wed Oct 02 2024 at 09:00 am to Thu Oct 03 2024 at 05:30 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Storms River Mouth Rest Camp | Plettenberg Bay, WC

The Otter African Trail Run is Africa’s premium marathon distance trail running event. Dubbed the Grail of Trail, the event traverses South Africa’s world-renowned five-day Otter hiking trail which is otherwise off-limits to trail running. The undulating coastal trail provides an unparalleled test of technical trail running drawing a competitive field from across the globe.
The Event is staged in two departures with two different cut-off times; the Otter Challenge with an 11-hour cut-off, and the Otter Race with a more demanding 9-hour cut-off. The Race and The Challenge are each staged over two days, with a 4km prologue on the first day and 42km race on the second day. The course alternates direction each year, between the Classic and Retto Edition, with 2024 being a Retto run.
The Otter African Trail Run is far more than a trail run, and is acclaimed as a celebration of wilderness conservation becoming a benchmark for sustainable eventing.