Outlaw Half Nottingham 2027
Britain's best-loved middle-distance race. A straight-line rowing lake swim, a flat fast bike through Nottinghamshire lanes, and a flat run around the lake with support everywhere.
40 weeks to race day: base season
Plenty of runway. This far out, the win is a boring, consistent base rhythm: aerobic volume, strength, technique. The structured block starts closer in; what you do now decides how high it can climb.
Building for this one? 70.3 training plan covers the sessions, the weekly shape and how the block is paced. The R.A.C.E. Framework explains why it is built that way.
Build my complete road.
Commit to the date and the work gets a shape: your countdown starts, the emails arrive in step with your build, and the app anchors a recovery-led block so the final week lands exactly on race day.
One confirmation email, then the road begins. Registering for the race itself stays with the organiser.
“If you are stepping up to middle distance, step up here. Calm swim, flat bike, and organisers who have thought of everything.”
The race
The course
No course maps for this race. Outlaw publishes no downloadable route for any leg of this race, so there is nothing to draw a course map from. Everything below comes from the official course page, checked on the date at the foot of this section.
An out and back in the Regatta Lake at the National Water Sports Centre, exiting via a pontoon close to transition. Time trial start, sent off the pontoons at intervals with your slot set by the swim time you submitted, so seed it honestly. Wetsuits are mandatory.
Relatively flat out into the rolling Nottinghamshire countryside, returning to the Water Sports Centre past Holme Pierrepont Hall. The organiser does not state a lap count.
Three flat laps taking in the River Trent, the White Water Rapids and the Regatta Lake, past the grandstand twice before the orange carpet.
Not yet confirmed for this edition: bike lap count, water temperature, transition detail, intermediate cut-off points. We publish these only once they are on the official course page, so check there before you pace off anything here.
Course details verified against the official Outlaw Half Nottingham course page on 14 August 2026. Courses change; the official page is always the last word.
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Read before you race
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Photograph of Holme Pierrepont, Nottingham: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Not official race photography.
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