The Oxpecker Trail Run is South Africa’s top 2-day trail running event that takes place in the central Drakensberg, halfway between Johannesburg and Durban. They aim to be the most innovative trail running race in the world, let alone in South Africa. Join for a weekend of unbelievable trails, delicious food, pure fun, and for the OXPECKER experience!
Day 1 is 21km and Day 2 is 16km. The Run starts at 8 am on Saturday with batch intervals of 10 minutes apart. Sunday also starts at 8 am with 5-minute batch intervals. The organiser may change this at any time.
The event’s inaugural run was hosted in 2015 with 490 runners. Being SO chuffed with the response from the runners in our first year, we only wanted our event to get better and for more runners to experience it. In 2016, we hosted our 2nd event, which welcomed 950 runners, where we capped it and started a waiting list. We felt that this was the right number of runners that the venue, trails, and catering could comfortably cater for. This size field also allows for a lot more detailed email correspondence and personal communication in order to give each runner a stress-free weekend.
We feel strongly about always coming up with innovative ideas, finding the most exciting routes, having quality food, an amazing race village, and mainly creating an atmosphere that no other trail run has achieved.
To get in line for the next event, click here.