NEARLY 2 500 entrants have committed to lacing up for the Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge virtual race on Sunday, 13 June.
The Comrades Marathon Association (CMA) issued provincial entry statistics and KZN currently places second in the lion’s share of entries. Most of the contenders hail from Gauteng.
The #ComradesCentenaryHopeChallenge follows the hosting of the CMA’s inaugural virtual event #RaceTheComradesLegends last year which had 43 778 entrants from 102 countries participating in one of the world’s biggest and most successful virtual races.
Sunday, 13 June runners, running club members and their families will once again be able to join in the celebratory spirit of The Ultimate Human Race by participating in the Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge from any time between 00:01am and 23:59pm on the actual challenge date, within their local time zone globally.
The Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge will comprise five distances – 5km, 10km, 21.1km, 45km and 90km which will all be run virtually. This means athletes get to run their own race, along their selected route anywhere in the world.
The campaign slogan for the Comrades Centenary Hope Challenge is ‘Ithemba – Hope Is’, which aims to contextualise each runner’s hopes, what the feeling means to them and to further inspire other athletes to dig deep and discover their own hopes and dreams for a better future and the new normal in a world ravaged by Covid-19.
