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THE ROUTES
AT The edge of the world.
THE COBRA MARATHON BEGINS.
The COBRA FUll
42kM | +2000m - Green point to Constantia Uitsig
From the roar of the ocean to the spine of the mountains, the 42K begins where land meets water. The Atlantic winds whip your resolve as you ascend Pat’s Track, a quick and steady climb daring you to falter. Lion’s Head rises to your right guiding you toward the start of the Pipe Track at Kloof Corner.
The Pipe Track flows deceptively easy, a moment to catch your legs, but the mountain is patient. Kasteelspoort waits. This climb is your first real challenge, every step a negotiation with gravity and rock. You pass the reservoirs, each one a silent, cool witness to your endurance before you drop into Constantia Nek.
Vlakkenberg looms beyond, steep and unforgiving. Each switchback whispers, each turn tests your grip on sanity but once you conquer it, the Vineyard Labyrinth opens.
Seven farms and centuries of history. You weave through Klein Constantia, Groot Constantia, Buitenverwachting, gliding past the rows of vines that once wrote the story of this land.
The finish line awaits at Constantia Uitsig. Dust, sweat, fynbos in your teeth. All distances meet here. Every runner becomes part of the same reckoning.
The COBRA STRIKE
33KM | 1800m - Noordhoek to constantia uitsig
On the other side of the mountain, your hair begins to rise. Is it the cool Atlantic breeze or the pull towards the mountain. Upward through the raw slopes of Spitzkop, Dragon’s Passage bares its teeth, the mountain reminding you who rules here. Cobra Alley strikes narrow and sharp, ancient fynbos clawing at your ankles, trail twisting like a living thing. You climb. You breathe. You push.
Silvermine opens before you. Cliffs and sky stretching to the horizon. Elephant’s Eye comes next, a thread of rocky switch back through the wilderness, before the trail rolls toward Vlakkenberg. Gravity seizes you for a moment, pulling you down into the Constantia wine valleys. Past Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia, Buitenverwachting… vineyards replacing rock, history meeting effort.
The finishing strike is the same: Constantia Uitsig. All runners converge, all paths collide, all stories meet.
Something stirs where the fynbos runs wild, where ridgelines catch the wind and the earth falls away beneath your feet
The COBRA Half
21Km | +1000m - Constantia Nek to CONStantia Uitsig
21K. Serious. Steep. Rewarding. Your journey through the Labyrinth begins here. You start at Constantia Nek, where the mountain exhales and the vineyards beckon. The trail teases you with its first climb, a dance with Vlakkenberg - rolling, winding, steep enough to sting, but just enough to make you feel alive. Each switchback is a whisper: “Are you ready?”
Then comes the Labyrinth. Seven farms, centuries of history, trails that twist and turn like a living thing. Groot Constantia, Klein Constantia, Buitenverwachting, Glen, Beau - each estate a chapter, each vineyard row a line of poetry written in soil and sweat. The fynbos flares at your sides, the sun paints shadows across the trail, and your legs answer the call with rhythm and grit.
Just when it feels endless, the finish opens ahead. Constantia Uitsig, the heart of the Cobra, where all distances collide, where every runner shares the same story and every effort is celebrated.
The VINEYARD LABYRINTH
distance To be confirmed: sub-15km
Details coming soon. This is the farm loop, the Cape Cobra’s shortest strike. It winds through the labyrinth, carving its path across the vineyards and fynbos, offering a taste of the challenge before the longer distances.
It’s your chance to get involved, to feel the bite, to say you were part of the reckoning.
Strike 2. Cape Cobra.
