Mitchell's Plain Titans Annual Road Race 2026 is a 21.1 km race on 21 November 2026, starting at 06:00 at Caravelle Road, Rocklands, Cape Town. The course climbs about 107 m in total.
From Caravelle Road past the Rocklands Community Hall, where the UDF began, through Rocklands to the sea at Mnandi Beach, then west along the False Bay shore on Lukannon Drive and the Strandfontein beachfront to the Pavilion, and home by much the same roads 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 107 m in total. The highest point is 31 m above sea level, at km 19.9.
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
06:00 · 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, 534 runners finished the half; Edward Jack won in 1:09:27 and Leani Potgieter in 1:26:40. There was no half marathon in 2024.
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 4.5 · 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 4.5 to 7.7 · 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 10 km turns back at km 6.6.
km 7.7 to 9.5 · Lukannon Drive
Strandfontein is Afrikaans for beach spring. It was laid out in 1962, and by the late 1970s it was growing fast with the rest of Mitchell's Plain. Blue Waters, a resort on Lukannon Drive between Mnandi and Strandfontein, is on your left at km 8.
km 9.5 to 10.2 · Strandfontein beachfront
Where the marshals send you, the course leaves Lukannon Drive at the Nine Miles Surf Club and runs west along the Strandfontein beachfront. A 2026 surfing exhibition in Muizenberg describes Nine Miles as the only beach where surfers of colour could surf under apartheid. Halfway comes at km 10.55, just after the turn at the Pavilion, beside the water on the lowest stretch of the course, 1 to 2 m above the sea.
km 10.2 to 11.4 · Strandfontein Pavilion
The Strandfontein Pavilion was built in the 1980s around what the City calls the largest tidal pool in the southern hemisphere. A R300 million rebuild began in March 2026 and is due to finish around 2028, so expect a building site. The course turns at km 10.4, at the eastern end of the Pavilion grounds by the pool and NSRI Station 16, and heads back along the beachfront to where you joined it.
km 11.4 to 12.6 · Lukannon Drive
Back at Nine Miles, the course turns left onto Lukannon Drive for a second, shorter out-and-back, turning at km 11.9, then heads home along the coast road towards Weltevreden Road.
km 12.6 to 15.1 · Lukannon Drive
The same coast road back, past Strandfontein and Blue Waters, with the morning sun ahead of you and to your right. The course stays between 6 and 11 m above the sea until Mnandi.
km 15.1 to 17.2 · Lukannon Drive
Ahead, beyond Mnandi, the coast rises to the limestone cliffs of the Wolfgat Nature Reserve: dune vegetation and cliffs that Mnandi Beach looks out on. You pass the 10 km's turn at km 15.2, about 6 km from the finish.
km 17.2 to 18.4 · Weltevreden and Eisleben Road
Right onto Weltevreden Road, back towards the Mnandi resort, then a path climbs to the footbridge over Baden Powell Drive and on up Eisleben Road: about 12 m, from 14 m to 26 m above the sea, between km 17.7 and 18.2. It is the biggest climb of the day.
km 19.1 to 20.6 · Caravelle Road
From the New Apostolic Church, Merrydale Avenue brings you back up to Caravelle Road. Left there, and past the circle at Eisleben Road the course reaches its highest point, 31 m, at km 19.9. Then past Glendale High School, the club's home, where the Titans train on Tuesdays, and on along Caravelle Road to the field.
km 21.1 · 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