Mitchell's Plain Titans Annual Road Race 2026 is a 10 km race on 21 November 2026, starting at 06:30 at Caravelle Road, Rocklands, Cape Town. The course climbs about 57 m in total.
From Caravelle Road past the Rocklands Community Hall, where the UDF began, through Rocklands to the sea at Mnandi Beach, then along the False Bay shore on Lukannon Drive to a turn by the beach, and home up Weltevreden Road to Rocklands Sports Field.
21.1 km at 06:00 and 10 km at 06:30, on Caravelle Road in front of Glendale High School, Rocklands. The 5 km fun run starts at 07:30
Rocklands Sports Field, Mitchell's Plain
It climbs about 57 m in total. The highest point is 31 m above sea level, at km 0.2.
Refreshment tables at regular intervals, under ASA and WPA rules. The route description names the 10 km's table at 6 km, just before its turnaround; the club has not published where the others are
Registration and number collection at Glendale High School, Rocklands: Friday 20 November, 17:00 to 19:00, and race morning, 05:00 to 06:00
21.1 km: 3 h 30 (finish by 09:30). 10 km: 2 h (finish by 08:30)
Online on Racepass until 14 November. 21.1 km R185 licensed, R280 unlicensed. 10 km R120 and R180, juniors R70 and R110. 5 km R80. Over-70s free, except R95 for an unlicensed 21.1 km
The race director's 2026 route description, street by street. The line on the map follows runners' race-day GPS tracks along those streets (the 2025 half marathon and the 2023 10 km)
Minimum age 16 for the 21.1 km and 14 for the 10 km. No headphones or earphones. Medals for the first 1,000 finishers in the 21.1 km and in the 10 km, and the first 250 in the 5 km. Wheelchair athletes: contact the organisers in advance. Prize giving at 09:00
City of Cape Town, Western Province Athletics, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages and the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon. Organised by Mitchells Plain Titans AC
06:30 · km 0
Mitchells Plain Titans AC, based at Glendale High School, organises the race, with the City of Cape Town, Western Province Athletics, Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages and the Totalsports Two Oceans Marathon behind it. The 21.1 km starts at 06:00 and the 10 km at 06:30, here on Caravelle Road, and the 5 km fun run follows at 07:30. The sun is up at 05:30. In 2025, 716 runners finished the 10 km: Sibusiso Madikezela won in 32:26, and Obertina Kanyongo won the women's race in 42:18 at the age of 58. In 2024, 1,257 finished; Luthabo Mpongwana won in 31:11, aged 18.
km 0.4 · Park Avenue
The United Democratic Front was launched in the Rocklands Community Hall on 20 August 1983, the date the government chose to bring in its new Tricameral constitution. Thousands came; Allan Boesak gave the keynote address. The UDF grew to about 1,000 affiliated organisations. The hall, its library, the clinic and Memorial Square have been a national heritage site since 2020, and the UDF memorial stands in front.
km 0.7 to 1.7 · Spine Road
Mitchell's Plain was planned under apartheid as a "model township" for coloured families, many of them forced out of their homes under the Group Areas Act. Building began in Westridge in 1975 and the first residents moved in in 1976, so 2026 is its 50th year. It was planned for a quarter of a million people; the 2011 census counted more than 300,000. Rocklands, built in the late 1970s, was one of the early suburbs. The name is older than the township, and nobody is sure who Mitchell was.
km 1.7 to 2.7 · Merrydale Avenue
Right into Merrydale Avenue and straight down it to Eisleben Road, past Caravelle Road, Viscount, Alouette Road, Halifax Street and Impala. Many streets in this part of Rocklands carry the names of aircraft: Caravelle, Viscount, Lancaster, Dakota, Spitfire, Tiger Moth and more. We could not find out who chose them, or why.
km 3.1 to 4.6 · Mnandi Beach
At the bottom of Eisleben Road a footbridge takes the course over Baden Powell Drive, and down to the sea at Mnandi Beach, the City's day resort at the bottom of Weltevreden Road, with a big freshwater pool and water slides, lawns and a tidal pool. It became a Blue Flag beach in 2003. The course loops through the parking and along the sand, then climbs about 13 m back out on Weltevreden Road to Lukannon Drive. Mnandi means nice in isiXhosa, and sweet or pleasant in isiZulu.
km 4.6 to 6.7 · Lukannon Drive
Lukannon Drive is the coast road from Mnandi to the Strandfontein Pavilion, seaward of Baden Powell Drive, through dune land the City maps as part of the False Bay Nature Reserve. It is close to flat, at 5 to 10 m above the sea. Late-November mornings here average about 17 km/h of breeze, mostly from the south, off the sea. The half marathon carries on to the Strandfontein Pavilion.
km 6.7 · Lukannon Drive
The 10 km turns at km 6.7 on Lukannon Drive, just after the water table the organisers call the 6 km table. It is a few hundred metres from the water, between Mnandi and Strandfontein, and you come back the same way to Weltevreden Road. The half marathon carries on west for almost 4 km more, to the Strandfontein Pavilion.
km 7 to 8.8 · Lukannon Drive
The same coast road back towards Mnandi, with the morning sun ahead of you and to your right, 6 to 10 m above the sea.
km 8.8 to 9.7 · Weltevreden Road
Left onto Weltevreden Road, which climbs about 7 m, from 12 m to 19 m above the sea between km 8.75 and 9, under Baden Powell Drive. It takes you on to Rocklands Sports Field, and a left turn brings you onto the field.
km 10 · Rocklands Sports Field
Every distance finishes on Rocklands Sports Field, where the prize giving starts at 09:00. Medals go to the first 1,000 finishers in the 21.1 km and in the 10 km, and the first 250 in the 5 km.
Route: the race director's 2026 route description, street by street, drawn along runners' race-day GPS tracks on Ride with GPS (the 2025 half marathon and the 2023 10 km) and matched to OpenStreetMap. Water tables: at regular intervals; the route description names the 10 km's table at 6 km. Date, times, cut-offs, fees, rules and sponsors: the 2026 flyer. History: Ommundsen Pessoa, Welcome to Mitchell's Plain (2023), the Plainsman, SA History Online and the City of Cape Town. Results: the WPA results books