Planning for the Otipua Challenge has got off to a running start.
The challenge, which will be run by Streamline Events, will take place in January next year.
Organiser Paul Forbes said the event would take place over 24 hours and entrants would loop around the wetlands and back to Redruth Park, where a base camp would be set up.
If they were competing as part of a team they would then ‘‘tag, and grab bib’’ and then the loop would begin again.
Forbes said it was the perfect endurance event for beginners.
Unlike traditional A to B events — where entrants had to finish the entire race or risk being left on a mountainside somewhere — there was a lot of safety in knowing they had a back-up plan.
‘‘Once the race starts, they go around at their own pace, starting and stopping when and where they want to.’’
He said anyone could compete in it, and with it being organised for the start of next year it gave people time to train; and it was a great way to kick the year off.
The challenge would begin at 6pm on a Saturday and finish 24 hours later.
Forbes said tents could be set up in the base camp along the loop so entrants could swap easily before continuing on.
The clearing was big enough to fit hundreds of participants.
Each team had to have two to four entrants.
Workplaces could send people as team building, he said, but warned it could be ‘‘team breaking’’ too.
‘‘They may not want to talk to each other again for a while.’’
Forbes said he started running at 39, and competed his first half-marathon on 40th birthday.
He realised he would not be the fastest, so he had worked on his endurance instead, and while he typically ran 10km in one hour, in an endurance event it could take seven to eight minutes to run a kilometre.
