Heat Endurance — Triathlon Training Camp, Nha Trang, August 2027
Seven weeks out from Kona, long days in the heat.
About This Camp
Heat and distance, held together. August on the south-central coast is hot and the days are long, and the bay is what makes that trainable: sheltered water within reach of the accommodation every morning, whatever the open sea is doing. Coastal volume through the day, the inland climb on offer to anyone who wants it, and evenings spent on what actually failed in the heat. The camp closes seven weeks out from Kona. Not the same week as May, on the same bay: May is a climb week with swimming, August is an endurance week with heat.
Camp Focus
Endurance volume held together in summer conditions: heat, but on flatter, longer roads and with a sheltered bay for daily swim work. The endurance version of heat training rather than the intensity version.
The week
A typical week, session by session
Day type: bay swim at sunrise · long coastal ride · afternoon run or second swim, heat-managed · evening debrief on pacing and fuelling under heat.
Fri · 13 Aug
- AfternoonArrival
- EveningEvening debrief
Sat · 14 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonEasy run
- EveningEvening debrief
Sun · 15 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningLong ride
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Mon · 16 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningEndurance ride
- AfternoonRun intervals
- EveningEvening debrief
Tue · 17 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningRecovery
- AfternoonFree
Wed · 18 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningLong ride
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Thu · 19 Aug
- SunriseOpen water
- MorningClimbing block
- AfternoonRecovery
- EveningEvening debrief
Fri · 20 Aug
- 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.
- Long ride
- The long day on the bike. Route recced before you arrive, support vehicle following.
- Recovery
- Mobility, an easy swim, or nothing. The session that makes the next hard one possible.
- Run intervals
- Structured running: repetitions and controlled recoveries.
- Free
- Nothing scheduled. The afternoon is yours.
- 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
August: hot, long days, the bay still sheltered
Terrain
Bay / Coastal + climb
Nha Trang in August is the hot version of the same bay. The islands still shelter the water, the coast road south towards Cam Ranh is still wide and long, and the Khanh Le pass is still there for whoever wants it. What August adds is heat and daylight, which is what turns this base into an endurance week rather than a climbing one.
Why train here
Long, flat, rideable coastal roads and sheltered water in reach of the accommodation are what let a heat week be an endurance week rather than a series of survived sessions. The swim is available every morning regardless of the open sea, so daily volume in the water is realistic here in a way it is not on an exposed coast in August.
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). 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.
- 13 – 20 August 2027
- 1 week · 7 nights · Friday to Friday
- Advanced · 8-12 athletes
- Nha Trang / Cam Ranh
