Bay & Pass — Triathlon Training Camp, Nha Trang, May 2027
The most dependable week of the year, and a 30km climb by Thursday.
About This Camp
May is the most reliable week on this calendar. The sea inside the island-sheltered bay is calm, the sky is dry, and the conditions hold from one day to the next with a consistency no other destination here can match, which is what makes this the week to build a season on rather than gamble one on. The coast road south towards Cam Ranh is wide and long for aerobic volume; turn inland instead and the road towards Da Lat climbs for more than 30km, the longest sustained climb of the year. It lands just before the June cluster of races.
Camp Focus
A block you can plan a season around. Protected open water for real swim volume and a climb long enough to change what your legs know, in the window where the weather is least likely to take a session away from you.
The week
A typical week, session by session
Day type: bay swim at sunrise · coastal aerobic ride or, mid-week, the long climb inland · afternoon run or recovery · evening pacing and fuelling debrief.
Fri · 14 May
- AfternoonArrival
- EveningEvening debrief
Sat · 15 May
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Sun · 16 May
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningBike intervals
- AfternoonRecovery
Mon · 17 May
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningLong ride
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Tue · 18 May
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningRecovery
- AfternoonFree
Wed · 19 May
- SunrisePool swim
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonRun intervals
- EveningEvening debrief
Thu · 20 May
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningClimbing block
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Fri · 21 May
- 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.
- Bike intervals
- Structured efforts above endurance pace, with the recoveries written in.
- Recovery
- Mobility, an easy swim, or nothing. The session that makes the next hard one possible.
- Long ride
- The long day on the bike. Route recced before you arrive, support vehicle following.
- Free
- Nothing scheduled. The afternoon is yours.
- Run intervals
- Structured running: repetitions and controlled recoveries.
- Climbing block
- Sustained uphill work, on the best climbing road the base has.
- 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 Nha Trang / Cam Ranh
Best season
May: calm bay, dry, the steadiest window of the year
Terrain
Bay / Coastal + climb
Nha Trang in May is the calm version of the bay. Islands shelter the water, the coast road south towards Cam Ranh runs wide and long, and the Khanh Le pass climbs inland towards Da Lat from the same base. Cam Ranh (CXR) takes international flights, so the road from the plane to the first session is short.
Why train here
The bay gives protected water for open-water sets that hold up even when the open coast does not, and in May it holds up almost every morning. That reliability is the point: it is the one week of the year where a plan written in advance is the plan you actually train. Flat coastal volume and a 30km climb from a single base, before the racing season closes in.
Getting there
Airport, transfer, arrival
Fly into
Cam Ranh (CXR)
Takes international flights.
Airport to base
40-50 min
by road · 35 km
Arrival
Friday evening. First session Saturday morning.
Your bike
Bring your own; rental available as an extra.
Fly into Cam Ranh (CXR), which takes international flights directly and sits close to the coast road. Arrival Friday evening, first session Saturday morning. Bring your own bike; rental available.
Flying with your bike: fees, packing, the domestic leg →Accommodation
Stay on the bay. 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.
- 14 – 21 May 2027
- 1 week · 7 nights · Friday to Friday
- Intermediate · 8-12 athletes
- Nha Trang / Cam Ranh
