Race planning
Plan Ultra-trail Cape Town
Use the listed edition as your starting point. Each tool keeps imported race facts separate from the targets and assumptions you choose.
Edition notes: On October 8, 2026, IOL reported that the shorter races had sold out but places remained in the 100-miler and the UT100; the organizer’s site does not show live entry status. Entrants who had not yet submitted a qualifying result had to email it by midday on October 28, the same deadline for substitutions and changes of distance. Sources differ on the course: the race page gives 163 km with 7,187 m D+ in its stats and 7,516 m in its text, and the organizer’s timing schedule, reprinted November 3 with the same figures as October 14, gives 162.11 km and 7,242 m. The race rules say progress will appear on a live tracking system through the website on race day, but no 2026 link was posted by November 5. UTCT is not a UTMB event, so UTMB Live has no page for it. Sportraxs ran the 2021–2025 results and had no 2026 event listed on November 5.
- Listed edition
- Nov 20, 2026 – Nov 22, 2026
- Format
- Fixed-Distance
- Distance
- 100 mi (163 km)
- Local start time
- 5:00 PM Friday
- Duration / cutoff
- 45 hours (2:00 PM Sunday), with cutoffs at Kloof Nek, Llandudno, Hout Bay, Kalk Bay, Simon’s Town, Noordhoek, Alphen and Newlands Picnic Site
- Crew and pacers
- Crews may help only within 100 m of aid stations marked for crew; on the 100-miler these include Signal Hill, Kloof Nek, Llandudno, Hout Bay, Kalk Bay, Simon’s Town, Scarborough, Kommetjie, Noordhoek, Alphen and Newlands Picnic Site. Help outside those zones costs 30 minutes. Pacers are allowed only in the Pacing Zone from Llandudno to Alphen: up to three pacers, one at a time, joining at seven pick-up points. The race page calls it 105.7 km, but the October timing schedule puts those endpoints 101.78 km apart.
- Drop bags
- One event drop bag, issued at registration and checked in at the main marquee on race morning. It goes to Simon’s Town (km 90) and comes back to the finish. Bags not collected during race week are donated to charity.
Recorded facts reviewed Oct 20, 2026. Check the organizer’s latest rules. Calendar downloads use all-day dates and do not set a starting alarm.
Pace & duration
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Gear checklist
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Crew & drop bags
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