IRONMAN 70.3 Krakow is a split-transition 70.3 — so you don't pack one bag, you pack three colour-coded ones that travel for you, and your bike goes in the night before. Here's exactly what goes in each, when check-in closes, and how race morning runs from the Zakrzówek quarry to the Main Market Square.
On a split course you never return to where you started, so your kit is split across colour-coded bags that get moved for you while you race.
The swim and bike start at the Zakrzówek quarry reservoir. The bike comes back to a different transition by Plac na Groblach, and the run finishes on the Main Market Square in the old town — you never return to where you started. That's why your kit is split across bags that get moved for you while you race.
IRONMAN's colour-to-bag scheme is the same across European 70.3s, so this part is settled. Pack each bag for the discipline it powers and label nothing else.
Krakow runs a mandatory day-before bike check-in at Zakrzówek with the bike racked overnight — there's no race-morning bike check-in to fall back on. The blue bag goes in with the bike; the red bag is dropped at T2 the same afternoon.
The 2026 official guide is in. The times below are now confirmed for this edition — a few moved from last year.
The choreography is confirmed from the 2026 guide: T1 opens at 06:00 and the depository bag drop with it, T1 closes at 07:30, then the rolling swim start at 08:00 with the depository closing at 08:30. The order is what matters.
The blue bag is your bike / T1 bag — stickered helmet, bike shoes, sunglasses, race number and ride nutrition. It's racked with your bike at the Zakrzówek quarry the day before, and your swim kit goes back into it after the swim.
Yes. Bike check-in is mandatory and day-before, with the bike racked overnight at Zakrzówek. There is no race-morning bike check-in, so don't plan to bring it on the day.
Only your black morning-clothes bag is handled on the day, at the depository tent. Blue and red are dropped on Saturday — the blue bag at Zakrzówek by 21:30 and the red bag at Plac na Groblach by 20:30 — and you can't get back into them, so everything for the bike and run has to be right before check-in closes.
Bike and blue-bag check-in closes Saturday at 21:30 at Zakrzówek, with the red bag dropped at T2 (Plac na Groblach) by 20:30. This is confirmed from the 2026 athlete guide, not last year's provisional time — the red and blue bags must be left on Saturday and can't be dropped on race day.
Krakow is a split (point-to-point) transition: swim and bike start at the Zakrzówek quarry, the run starts from a second transition at Plac na Groblach, and you finish on the Main Market Square. The colour-coded bags carry your kit between those points so you don't have to.
The black bag holds the dry clothes you arrive in. You hand it in at the race-morning gear-check (depository) tent and it's moved to the finish, so warm kit is waiting when you cross the line in the old town. Keep valuables out of it.
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