Following on from the highly successful, first ever running of the five-day Otter Hiking Trail in September last year Knysna based event organisers, Magnetic South, have confirmed the 2010 dates.
The event will start on 24 September when those wishing to participate in the Otter Run only will have their opportunity to add their names to a very select few official finishers.
The multi-stage six-day Southern Storm Trail Duathlon will also start with its first stage on the Otter and these athletes will be running and riding themselves ragged with their date with the Otter starting on 26 September.
The inaugural Otter African Trail Run presented by Hi-Tec, introduced an experience onto the South African sports calendar that was guaranteed to raise intense interest and debate from both the huge hiking and now burgeoning trail running communities.

The Otter Hiking Trail has long been classified as a tough challenge and for all the countless hikers who have undertaken this five-day epic, they will agree that to run the entire trail in one day is absolute lunacy.
The big question doing the rounds was if the five-day Otter Trail could be conquered in under five hours.
Garden Route based adventure racing athlete John Collins was the man who had masterminded the concept of the country’s leading hiking trail becoming the holy grail of trail running. In the various scouting runs, sanctioned by the GRNP, that the Magnetic South team had done to plan for the event, John Collins had posted a 5 hrs 12 min personal best time.
Last year SA duathlon champ Ian Don Wauchope crawled over the finish line on all fours in a record breaking time of 4 hours 59 mins and 7 seconds becoming the only person to have ever broken the five-hour barrier.
Now everyone is asking if this time can be beaten?
Entries are very limited. View the event websites at www.magneticsouth.net or www.southernstorm.co.za.