The Mdina 2 Spinola route has been used and unchanged since at least 1979. The distance is 10.6 miles or 17.1 km. As this is a traditional race, the route shall be marked in miles. The route starts from outside Mdina and finishes in Spinola. There is a drop of 195 metres from start to finish.

The race records are:

52:26 by Charlton Debono in 2019
59:59 by Carol Galea (Walsh) in 2000

Most finishers, 1,329 in 2018 and least finishers, 10 in 1981

The first 2 females to participate were Carol Galea and Carmen Deguara in 1990.

71 Athletes have dipped below 1 hour at least once.

Jonathan Balzan holds the record of having dipped under 1 hour 15 times, he is followed by Mark Herrera with 11 times.

In 2017 there were 812 finishers with a record 14 athletes running below 1 hour. In 2018 there were 1,329 finishers also with 14 athletes running below 1 hour. In 2019 there were 1,325 and again there were 14 athletes running below 1 hour.

Most male finishers: 891 in 2018

Most female finishers: 462 in 2019

Records that fell in 2019

Course record by Charlton Debono, from 53:47 done by Kevin Zammit in 1997 to 52:26 after 22 years

Male O55 record by Peter Azzopardi, from 1:05:34 done in 1993 by Lawrence Essery to 1:03:49 after 26 years

Male O65 record by Frank R. Muscat, from 1:19:04 done in 2018 by Joseph Farrugia to 1:13:48

Male O70 record by Nicholas Vassallo, from 1:34:22 done in 2018 by Alfred Debono to 1:28:58

Female O50 record by Angele Sammut, from 1:18:00 done in 2013 by Cecilia Fenech to 1:17:29

More records can be found at the end of the full results.