Comrades Marathon entries reopen due to popular demand
The Comrades Marathon organisers hope they will secure about 20 000 runners space for this year's marathon.
This as the organisers will re-open entries for three days this week due to popular demand from runners in the country and around the world.
This year’s down run takes place on June 11, starting in Pietermaritzburg.
Race director Rowyn James says they've been receiving requests since the initial entries closed in December.
"It's difficult to be exact on how many we're expecting. There's been quite a demand on requests for entries and that is mainly through our info emails inbox, basically roughly about eight pages and there's fifty enquiries per page so there are 400 that we know of but there's certainly other avenues where people have been requesting entries through the various social media platforms or phoning in the office. There is definitely a heightened excitement in demand for the entries and obviously the excitement is for the fact that we are reopening the entries."
