Central Coast — Triathlon Training Camp, Da Nang, February 2027
A sea at 23.5°C, and the Hai Van climb without the furnace.
About This Camp
February is the cool end of the Da Nang year, and that is the entire argument for this week: dry, around 24°C on the road, a sea at 23.5°C, and daylight you can train through from dawn to dusk. It is the week for the athlete coming out of a northern winter who wants volume and warm water, not three days spent learning to cope with 34°C. There is a 50m pool on site for structured swim sets, and the camp closes 72 days before the IRONMAN 70.3 in Da Nang, on the same coast the race is run on.
Camp Focus
The first real training block of the year, run in the cool, dry window. Long coastal rides in air you can hold a session in all day, ocean swimming at 23.5°C, a 50m pool for the sets that need one, and the Hai Van road climbed as a climb rather than survived as a heat exposure.
The week
A typical week, session by session
Day type: ocean or pool swim at sunrise · main coastal ride mid-morning · afternoon run, brick or recovery · evening debrief on the day's data.
Fri · 19 Feb
- AfternoonArrival
- EveningEvening debrief
Sat · 20 Feb
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Sun · 21 Feb
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningClimbing block
- AfternoonRecovery
Mon · 22 Feb
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningBike intervals
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Tue · 23 Feb
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningRecovery
- AfternoonFree
Wed · 24 Feb
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningLong ride
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Thu · 25 Feb
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningBrick
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Fri · 26 Feb
- SunriseEasy run
- AfternoonDeparture
What these sessions are
- Arrival
- Land, build the bike, meet the group. Nothing is trained on the first day.
- Evening debrief
- The group sits down with the coaches: the day's data, pacing, fuelling, and what changes tomorrow.
- Open water
- Sea or sheltered-water swimming as a group, with cover on the water.
- Endurance ride
- Steady aerobic riding, at a pace you could hold all day. Most of a camp week is this.
- Easy run
- Running kept genuinely easy, off the bike or on its own.
- Pool swim
- Technique and a structured set, in a pool, where the set can actually be held.
- Climbing block
- Sustained uphill work, on the best climbing road the base has.
- Recovery
- Mobility, an easy swim, or nothing. The session that makes the next hard one possible.
- Bike intervals
- Structured efforts above endurance pace, with the recoveries written in.
- Free
- Nothing scheduled. The afternoon is yours.
- Long ride
- The long day on the bike. Route recced before you arrive, support vehicle following.
- Brick
- Bike then run, back to back. The part of a race you cannot rehearse one discipline at a time.
- Departure
- Bikes packed, transfers out. The camp closes on the Friday it opened on.
Indicative structure, not a contract. Sessions move for the weather, the sea and the group that turns up. There are deliberately no durations, distances or intensities here: those get written for the athletes actually on the camp, once the coaches have seen them train.
The destination
About Da Nang / Hoi An
Best season
February: dry, around 24°C, sea at 23.5°C
Terrain
Coastal / Heat / Heritage
Da Nang in February is the cool face of the coast. Dry air, a swimmable sea, the Hai Van pass clear of summer haze, and the same complete triathlon terrain the July camp uses: rolling coastal roads, a long climb, ocean open water. An international airport, and UNESCO Hoi An a few kilometres down the beach.
Why train here
February is the one window on this coast where all three disciplines can be trained at full value on the same day. The coastal roads are rideable from dawn to dusk, the Hai Van road is a climbing session rather than a heat exposure, and the sea is calm and warm enough for real open-water volume. It is also the coast the IRONMAN 70.3 is raced on, ten weeks later.
Getting there
Airport, transfer, arrival
Fly into
Da Nang International (DAD)
Takes international flights.
Airport to base
40-45 min
by road · 27-30 km
Arrival
Friday evening. First session Saturday morning.
Your bike
Bring your own; rental available as an extra.
Fly into Da Nang International (DAD), the most travel-friendly base in the country for an athlete arriving with a bike box. Arrival Friday evening, first session Saturday morning, camp closes the following Friday. Bring your own bike; rental available as an extra.
Flying with your bike: fees, packing, the domestic leg →Accommodation
Coastal stay near Hoi An. Shared room with two or three single beds, full board, pool for recovery. Single room available on request ($375).
Included at every camp
The Recovery Corner
Cold-water immersion, compression boots, massage guns and a stretching area, set up on site and open to every athlete on the camp. Not an upsell, and not a spa slot booked by the hour.
- Ice bath
- Compression boots
- Massage guns
- Stretching area
What's included
- Accommodation (7 nights, Friday to Friday)
- Full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner daily)
- Shared room, two or three single beds
- Two coaches on site, 8 to 12 athletes
- Coaching: swim / bike / run, every session
- Support vehicle on every ride
- Pool / open-water / site access
- Race nutrition on key sessions
- House of Triathlon welcome pack
- Training data follow-up
- Vegetarian option on request
Not included
- Flights (you book your own)
- Bike (bring your own, rental available as an extra)
- Single-room supplement ($375)
- Travel insurance
Price
From $1,295
per athlete · 7 nights · full board · shared room
- Early birdCurrent rate$1,295
- Standard$1,495
- Late bird$1,695
The early-bird rate is what you are quoted by pre-registering today, and it is held for you when registration opens. Standard applies once that window closes; late bird in the final weeks before the camp.
- Single room: +$375
- Non-athlete companion: $795
- Road bike rental available. Contact us for details.
- Flights are not included.
Pre-register for this camp
Nothing is booked and nothing is charged today. Pre-registering is what gets you in first, at the price the camp opens at.
- Priority access: we contact you before registration opens to everyone else.
- Opening rate guaranteed: you keep the early-bird price, whatever tier is running when you book.
- 19 – 26 February 2027
- 1 week · 7 nights · Friday to Friday
- All Levels · 8-12 athletes
- Da Nang / Hoi An
