Race Course — Triathlon Training Camp, Da Nang, April 2027
Your last big block, on the IRONMAN coast, a month before the race.
About This Camp
April is the best month of the Central Coast year for morning training: dry, around 31°C at the hottest of the day, a sea at 26°C, and fewer than one morning in ten with rain. The camp ends on 9 April, thirty days before IRONMAN Vietnam and the IRONMAN 70.3 Da Nang on Sunday 9 May 2027: late enough to be your last big block, early enough to absorb it before the taper. Come if you are racing in May and want to know the sea, the roads and the heat before race week, or simply for the best week of the year on this coast. There is a 50m pool on site for structured swim sets, and for the rare morning when an offshore swell closes the sea.
Camp Focus
The last full training block before IRONMAN Vietnam and the IRONMAN 70.3 Da Nang on 9 May 2027, on the same coast the races are run on. Ocean swimming at 26°C, long coastal rides, the Hai Van climb, and race-pace work rehearsed in the air you will race in.
The week
A typical week, session by session
Day type: ocean or pool swim at sunrise · main coastal ride mid-morning, with race-pace blocks mid-week · afternoon run, brick or recovery · evening debrief on pacing and race-day fuelling.
Fri · 2 Apr
- AfternoonArrival
- EveningEvening debrief
Sat · 3 Apr
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Sun · 4 Apr
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningClimbing block
- AfternoonRecovery
Mon · 5 Apr
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningBike intervals
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Tue · 6 Apr
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningRecovery
- AfternoonFree
Wed · 7 Apr
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningLong ride
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Thu · 8 Apr
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningBrick
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Fri · 9 Apr
- 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
April: dry, around 31°C, sea at 26°C
Terrain
Coastal / Climb / Heritage
Da Nang in April is the race-month face of the coast. Dry mornings, a swimmable sea, the Hai Van pass and the rolling coastal roads, an international airport, and UNESCO Hoi An a few kilometres down the beach. Four weeks later, the same coast hosts IRONMAN Vietnam.
Why train here
April is the window on this coast where all three disciplines can still be trained at full value on the same day, before the May heat arrives. It is also where IRONMAN Vietnam and the IRONMAN 70.3 Da Nang are raced, thirty days after the camp ends: the open water, the roads and the air are the race's own.
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.
- 2 – 9 April 2027
- 1 week · 7 nights · Friday to Friday
- All Levels · 8-12 athletes
- Da Nang / Hoi An