Playa Blanca Music Run Night 2026

Event information

About the race

The Playa Blanca Music Run Night is run after dark on Saturday 28 November 2026, starting and finishing at the Plaza del Carmen in Playa Blanca. It is the last of the five venues in the Canary Islands Music Run Night Series, the night-race series put on by Summits Sports Events.

The entry platform frames it like this: «CARRERA NOCTURNA A PIE INCLUIDA EN LAS SERIES REGIONALES CANARIAS MUSIC RUN NIGHT 2026 BY JOMA CON 5 SEDES EN EL ARCHIPIÉLAGO», a night road race inside the Canary Islands regional Music Run Night Series 2026 by JOMA, with five venues across the archipelago, and it promises «ESTACIONES MUSICALES AMENIZADAS CON GRANDES DJ Y CON MULTITUD DE EFECTOS DISCO», music stations run by big DJs with a pile of disco effects. The five venues are named in the calendar of the Series rules: Puerto del Carmen and Haría on Lanzarote, Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife, Santa Cruz de La Palma and this one in Playa Blanca. They are not five stops on one island: three are here, one is on Tenerife and one on La Palma.

Three distances, staggered starts

• The mile, 1.6 km: starts at 21:00.
• 5 km: starts at 21:25.
• 10 km: starts at 21:30.

There is also a free Diverse category for people with certified disability, with 20 places inside the overall cap. The race is capped at 500 runners.

Volunteers sign up through the same form, and pay nothing

The platform that takes the money does not list three entry types, it lists five, checked on 6 October 2026. Under the three distances sit «DIVERSE» and «VOLUNTARIOS», both marked «Gratuita», free, and with the same closing time as the paid ones. Anyone who would rather help at the race than run it signs up through that same form and pays nothing. Neither the rules nor the organiser’s event page mention it, checked on 6 October 2026: it is only on the platform.

Prices: the organiser’s website and the platform disagree (checked on 15 October 2026)

Where the money is taken, on RockTheSport, the prices are 15 euros for the mile, 17 for 5 km and 19 for 10 km, plus platform fees. It is also what the official 2026 rules say: «Milla 15 euros; 5 km 17 euros; 10 km 19 euros».

The organiser’s own event page lists three different figures: 12 euros for the mile, 14 for 5 km and 16 for 10 km. Three euros less on every distance. Two of the three sources agree, and one of them is where you pay, and the organiser’s website keeps the lower figure, checked on 15 October 2026. Worth looking at the amount before you confirm.

Entries close at a very odd time

The rules only give the day: «El periodo de inscripción finalizará el 25 de noviembre de 2026, salvo que antes se complete el cupo máximo de 500 plazas», the entry period ends on 25 November 2026 unless the cap of 500 places fills first.

The platform pins down the time, and it is not midnight. RockTheSport publishes the window like this: «Del 07/09/2026 a las 15:00 al 25/11/2026 a las 23:06». 23:06 on the 25th, with its six minutes. It is such an odd time that it looks like a configuration slip, and that is exactly why it is worth saying: leave your entry to the last stretch of that evening and you can find the form shut almost an hour earlier than you expected. The cap can close it sooner anyway.

The rules send you to sign up where nobody takes payment

This is not us saying it: the organiser publishes it in two of its own documents at once. The official 2026 rules settle it in one sentence, «La inscripción se realizará exclusivamente en www.summitssportsevents.com», entries will be taken exclusively on that website, and the official poster repeats it along the bottom, «INSCRIPCIONES EN WWW.SUMMITSPORTSEVENTS.COM».

Yet the place you pay is RockTheSport. That is where the five entry types are, the window with its exact time, and the rules themselves hanging there as an attachment, and that is where the organiser’s own page sends you the moment you click to enter.

And in the middle of it there is a typo that makes it worse: the domain in the rules has one extra s and resolves on no server at all, checked on 6 October 2026. The one on the poster, with one s fewer, does exist and is the organiser’s website, but it does not take payment either: it just links to the platform. Type the address in the rules literally and you will find nothing.

A warning about the course

There is no published description of the 2026 route beyond the start and finish. And the route files hanging off the organiser’s page are not from this race: they are named «Haría Music Run» and their coordinates fall in Haría, at the other end of the island. They are recycled from another race in the series. No cut-off times are published either.

Bibs, on the Friday and in Puerto Calero

Friday 27 November, at the Sports Club Puerto Calero, from 10:00 to 13:00 and 17:00 to 20:00, with ID. In 2025 there was also a collection on the Saturday itself at the Plaza del Carmen; for 2026 that second window is not announced.

What is included

A finisher’s medal «conforme a la disponibilidad prevista», in line with the availability planned, and a commemorative shirt and gifts «sujetos a disponibilidad y al orden de inscripción», subject to availability and the order in which people entered. There are medical services, aid stations and a bag drop once one is set up. The first three men and the first three women in each competitive category are awarded. The adjective is the organiser’s own and it is not filler: «Se premiará a los tres primeros clasificados masculinos y a las tres primeras clasificadas femeninas de cada modalidad competitiva», the first three men and first three women in each competitive category get a prize. Which of the five entry types count as competitive is not published, checked on 6 October 2026.

The series standings: there is prize money, and you need one race per island

There are two sets of rules and they do not say the same thing, both read on 6 October 2026. The ones for this race stop short: «Para figurar en la clasificación final de las Series será necesario participar en al menos tres pruebas. Si se participa en cuatro, computarán los tres mejores resultados», you have to run at least three races to appear in the final standings, and if you run four the best three results count.

The Series rules, a separate PDF, add the condition the other one is missing: «La clasificación definitiva de la Music Run Night Series resultará de completar un mínimo de tres pruebas y al menos una por cada isla», the final standings require a minimum of three races and at least one on each island. Three races, yes, but spread out: one on Lanzarote, one on Tenerife and one on La Palma. Run the three Lanzarote races and stop there and you are not in the standings.

And prize money does exist, even though this race’s own rules never mention it, checked on 6 October 2026. The Series rules set it, for the first three men and the first three women overall: over 10 km, 300, 200 and 100 euros; over 5 km, 200, 100 and 50 euros. Finish on that podium without having run one race per island and you keep the trophy and the position, but not the money.

This race is also the decider. It is the Series’ third tie-break criterion when two runners are level: «Mejor resultado en la última prueba del año que será Playa Blanca Music Run Night», best result in the last race of the year, which will be the Playa Blanca Music Run Night.

This page published the opposite, that there was neither money nor a tie-breaking role, because we had only read the race’s own rules, and it was corrected on 6 October 2026 with the Series rules in hand.

The official 2026 poster

It exists, the organiser publishes it on its own event page and RockTheSport repeats it, cropped, as the header. It is the one illustrating this page. At a glance it carries the «MUSIC RUN NIGHT SERIES 26» stamp, the JOMA logo next to the Summits Sports Events one, the date and the time, «28 NOVIEMBRE | 21:00 HRS», and the row of backers along the bottom, with the Yaiza council, Deportes Yaiza and the Cabildo de Lanzarote among them. What it does not carry is the course.

The 2025 edition has no classification we can point to (checked on 3 October 2026)

Until this update this page gave the 2025 winners with their times. They have been removed, because there is no classification we can open and show: the results page the platform itself links from the event is empty, and the organiser does not publish results on its own site, checked on 3 October 2026.

These are people’s names and race times, so either we can point to the source or we do not publish them. If the organiser puts the 2025 classification online, we will link it and bring them back.

What does hold from that edition is the date: it was run on 29 November 2025.