{"id":1358,"date":"2014-02-28T11:31:06","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T11:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/new\/uk\/news\/endurance-event-for-self-help-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T16:22:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T16:22:58","slug":"endurance-event-for-self-help-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selfhelpafrica.org\/uk\/endurance-event-for-self-help-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Endurance event for Self Help Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"
80 of the world’s toughest endurance athletes will gather in Ireland this weekend for ‘The Race’, the inaugural 24-hour sports challenge taking place in Donegal as a benefit for Self Help Africa.<\/p>\n
Competitors from across mainland Europe, the UK, United States, Canada and Australia are amongst the challengers who will gather in Donegal this Saturday, for a 260km run, kayak and cycle challenge along a specially designed route through the picturesque North-West.<\/p>\n
Glenveagh National Park is headquarters for the first ever challenge, which is aiming to provide the ultimate single-day test for endurance athletes in Ireland. Competitors will come from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines, and include elite runners and cyclist, various marathon and triathon champions, and participants in Ironmen and other similar events.<\/p>\n
To finish ‘The Race’ competitors will have completed 15 km of kayaking, 175 km cycling, 5km of mountain running\/scrambling and 65km of road and trail running.<\/p>\n
The field for The Race is limited to 80 competitors, and is being organised by Self Help Africa supporters Maghnus Collins Smyth and David Burns of last year’s Sand2Snow Adventures – an event that succeeded in raising close to \u20ac40,000 to support our work.<\/p>\n
Participants who are taking part in this weekend’s first ever edition of ‘The Race’ are each required to pay a registration fee of \u20ac600, with all profits going to Self Help Africa.<\/p>\n
To find out more about the event visit: The Race<\/a> website here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 80 of the world’s toughest endurance athletes will gather in Ireland this weekend for ‘The Race’, the inaugural 24-hour sports challenge taking place in Donegal as a benefit for Self Help Africa.<\/p>\n Competitors from across mainland Europe, the UK, United States, Canada and Australia are amongst the challengers who will gather in Donegal this Saturday, for a 260km run, kayak and cycle challenge along a specially designed route through the picturesque North-West.<\/p>\n Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[637],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n