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SPAR Women's Challenge Tshwane

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Union Buildings
© OpenStreetMap Union Buildings. Photograph by Ruby D-Brown, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons . Course line © OpenStreetMap contributors

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A climb of 46 m to km 7, then downhill home.

Start, finish

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SuperSport Park

The organiser names Centurion SuperSport Park as the start venue of the 5 km and 10 km races.

Height drawn many times taller than life. Heights: GEDTM30.

Course elevation profile, 8× vertical exaggeration Elevation along the course from km 0 to km 10. The trace runs between 1416 and 1462 metres, a range of 46 metres, drawn at 8 times vertical exaggeration so the shape is legible. Smoothed over 1 km before this profile was derived. An unsmoothed urban surface carries the buildings and would assert a climb that is not there. The dashed stretches are bridge decks: John Vorster Drive, km 1.9 to 1.9; Olievenhoutbosch Road, km 3.6 to 3.7; Jean Avenue, km 4.5 to 4.6. A bare-earth model reads the ground or the water beneath a bridge, not the deck the runner is on, so those runs are interpolated between the ground either side rather than measured, and they under-report the real climb across a span.
0 2 4 6 8 10 km
0 2 4 6 mi

Dashed: bridge

  • climb to 7
  • downhill home
The course in short 2 lines
  • A Highveld 10 km at 1,420 m, 66 m of climbingStart 1,416 m, high point 1,462 m at 7.3 km, finish 1,418 m.
  • From 600 runners in 1996 to a Grand Prix Series stop600 runners in 1996; a 5 km and a 10 km; part of the SPAR Grand Prix Series.
Course notes 2 short reads on the course
Whole courseGradientA Highveld 10 km at 1,420 m, 66 m of climbingStart 1,416 m, high point 1,462 m at 7.3 km, finish 1,418 m.

The road climbs from 1,416 m to about 1,444 m by 2.4 km, dips to 1,427 m at 3.1 km, then climbs again to the high point of 1,462 m at 7.3 km. The last 2.7 km come down about 44 m to the finish. The 10 km race starts at Centurion SuperSport Park.

Measured

Whole courseCrowdFrom 600 runners in 1996 to a Grand Prix Series stop600 runners in 1996; a 5 km and a 10 km; part of the SPAR Grand Prix Series.

The Tshwane race offers a 5 km fun run and a 10 km run, both started at 14:00 on 1 August 2026 at Centurion SuperSport Park. Ten kilometre entrants without a running licence pay a temporary licence fee. The 2026 theme was #CelebrateHer, and the organiser’s sponsor gave away a car at the draw of each of five provincial races.

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Race fuel

Energy gel
An energy gel sachet
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No gel needed at this pace

Finish

Under about 75 minutes most runners need no gel: water at the aid stations does it.

For your long training runs:

Our pick: SiS BETA Fuel gel, box of 6, strawberry and lime. 40 g of carbohydrate a gel, about twice a usual gel, from two kinds of sugar your body takes up side by side.

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In Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Salted Caramel, 24-pack, the best seller there.

Outside the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the UK and Ireland, Spain and Portugal, Italy, the rest of the EU and Canada the button opens GU Energy Gel, Chocolate Outrage, 24-pack on Amazon.com, the best seller there.

Anti-chafe
Compeed Anti-blister stick
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Compeed anti-blister stick, 8 ml

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An invisible layer before the start keeps seams, straps and shoes from rubbing skin raw.

Put it on before you leave for the start: heels and toes, inner thighs, under a bra or heart-rate strap.

Try it on a long run first, like everything you use on race day.

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Number belt
A race number belt
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Compressport Race Belt

Holds your bib without safety pins through your top, with loops for up to 8 gels.

Clip the bib on the night before, so it goes on with your shorts in the morning.

Keep the number on the front, where officials and photographers can see it.

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Electrolytes
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SiS Hydro electrolyte tablets, tube of 20

One tablet in a bottle puts back some of the salt you sweat out.

One tablet in 500 ml of water in the hour before the start.

Only if you have used them in training: nothing new on race day.

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Blister plasters
Compeed Blister plasters, medium, 6
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Compeed blister plasters, medium, 6

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One in a pocket cushions a blister if one starts.

Put it on clean, dry skin and leave it until it comes off by itself.

Give a couple to whoever comes to cheer, so they are there at the km you need them.

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distance
10.0 km6.2 mi
climb
65.5 m215 ft

The SPAR Women's Challenge Tshwane is a course of 10 km with 65.5 m of climbing. Its lowest point is 1,416 m and its highest 1,462 m above sea level.

Trip

Getting a place

Entry through the organiser

Entry details on the organiser’s site →

The organiser, a third party. We take no entries and have no part in the race.

Sources and licence

Last checked.

Course line matched onto OpenStreetMap road geometry: (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database License 1.0 (ODbL). Elevation sampled from GEDTM30, Global Ensemble Digital Terrain Model at 30 m (v1.2): Elevation: GEDTM30 (Ho & Hengl, OpenGeoHub), CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

Elevation gain computed by us from that line, smoothed over 1 kmsmoothed over 0.6 mi.

The line follows the road down its middle, so it measures 1.72% longer than the certified distance, which is measured on the shortest legal line through every bend.

Date and entry information from the organiser.

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