{"id":234182,"date":"2026-05-23T16:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-entries-to-open-for-the-2026-nedbank-desert-dash\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T16:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T14:48:50","slug":"namibia-entries-to-open-for-the-2026-nedbank-desert-dash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-entries-to-open-for-the-2026-nedbank-desert-dash\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Entries to Open for the 2026 Nedbank Desert Dash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\"><em>Entries for one of Namibia&#8217;s most iconic endurance sporting events, the 2026 Nedbank Desert Dash, officially open in June, inviting cyclists from Namibia and around the world to take on the legendary 401 km mountain bike challenge across the Namib Desert.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">Solo rider entries open on 1 June, followed by 2-person team entries on 8 June, and 4-person team entries on 15 June. With demand historically high across all categories, riders are encouraged to secure their place early for the race, which has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605220745.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Entries for one of Namibia&#8217;s most iconic endurance sporting events, the 2026 Nedbank Desert Dash, officially open in June, inviting cyclists from Namibia and around the world to take on the legendary 401 km mountain bike challenge across the Namib Desert. Solo rider entries open on 1 June, followed by 2-person team entries on 8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":234183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11093,10117,14605,4706,724,11091,257,5983,254],"class_list":["post-234182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dash","tag-desert","tag-entries","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nedbank","tag-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}