The multisport race the Wanganui Events Trust hoped would become the North Island's answer to the Speights Coast to Coast is going on hiatus for 12 months as they search for new ways to attract numbers.
The second year of the Mountain to Sea (M2C) race was scheduled for March 27-29, racing over three days by foot, bike and kayak from Turoa Base Area in Ohakune through to Wanganui's Cooks Gardens.
However, the trust announced this week they were postponing the race due to low entry numbers, therefore being unable to provide a competitive event for the sponsors and for those who had signed up.
"This is a large scale event that takes hundreds of volunteers committing their time and without the entry numbers to support the effort going in, we feel it is unreasonable to expect the same from our team in the field," said director Mark Stoneman.
Needing 100 entries across the individual and team grades to be viable, Stoneman said they had only 20 when the plug was pulled. "The combination of things, a lot of people were focused on other events."