Online entries: www.racetothesun.co.za. You may enter either as a solo rider or in teams of two or four. Relay team entrants are also accepted.
Distance: 162 kilometres. Total ascent: 940 metres. The course takes you from Hartebeespoort to Sun City. You mainly follow gravel roads along some of South Africa's unexplored places.
Gravel road bikes are allowed as well as modifies mountain bikes. A GPS device compulsory. Basic markings will be in place, with route marshals along the way at any danger areas.