Outlaw Nottingham 2027
The UK's fastest and friendliest full-distance race. 3.8km of straight-line lake swimming, 180km of flat Nottinghamshire road, and a marathon of flat laps with your name shouted every lap.
49 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? Ironman 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.
“The thinking athlete's iron distance. Flat enough to pace perfectly, honest enough to expose you if you don't.”
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 close to transition. This is one of the last genuine mass starts in British long course racing, and wetsuits are mandatory rather than optional.
A relatively flat route out into the Nottinghamshire countryside, returning past Holme Pierrepont Hall. The organiser does not state a lap count.
Three large laps on the towpath beside the River Trent, turning at Lady Bay Bridge, the White Water Rapids and the Regatta Lake, then one final lap of the lake onto the orange carpet at the finish.
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 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: Photograph by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent. (www.clemrutter.net)., CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Not official race photography.
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