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On a split course you never return to where you started, so your kit goes into separate bags that wait for you along the course.
Check the athlete guide for where each bag is dropped and where it waits for you.
The swim starts off the Plage des Ponchettes and T1 is on the Promenade des Anglais. The bike comes back to a different transition at Oceanice, and the run finishes back on the Promenade in front of the Théâtre de Verdure. Your bike bag and your run bag are handed in at two separate venues on the same afternoon.
Three bags are issued at athlete check-in, and the guide is strict about one thing in particular: age-group athletes must put the helmet INSIDE the blue bike gear bag. You may not leave it on the bike or on the ground.
Athlete check-in runs Wednesday to Friday, 09:00–18:00, at the Miroir d'eau in the IRONMAN Village — and it is not open on Saturday. Every race packet must be collected by 18:00 on Friday 11 September or you will not be permitted to race. Bike and bag check-in is separate, and falls on the day before your own race: women Friday 12:00–18:00, men Saturday 15:30–19:00.
The 2026 official guide is in. The times below are now confirmed for this edition — a few moved from last year.
Transition opens at 05:00 and closes at 07:00 on both race days. The professional wave starts at 07:00 and the age-group wave at 07:10, off the Plage des Ponchettes. You have no access to your bike gear bag or your run gear bag on race morning — whatever you need is already in them.
Three: a grey morning clothes bag for streetwear, a blue bike gear bag for the bike, and a red mesh run gear bag for the run. They're issued at athlete check-in with a sticker sheet — one gear-bag sticker for each.
The women race Saturday 12 September and the men race Sunday 13 September. Your bike and bag check-in is the day before your own race, so the women rack on Friday and the men on Saturday afternoon.
Inside the blue bike gear bag. Age-group athletes are not permitted to leave a helmet on the bike or on the ground at check-in — it goes in the bag with the rest of your bike kit.
No — this is a split transition. Your bike, helmet and blue bike gear bag go to T1 on the Promenade des Anglais, and your red run gear bag goes to T2 at Oceanice. Same afternoon, two venues.
No. The guide is explicit: athletes have no access to the bike gear bag or the run gear bag on race morning. Pack them as though you won't see them again until you're racing, because you won't.
You have 8 hours 30 minutes from your own swim start to finish, with 1:10 for the swim and 5:45 for swim + T1 + bike. On the clock: the bike course closes at 15:10, with intermediate cut-offs at the Col de Vence (~36.3 km) at 13:10 and St Laurent du Var (~79.3 km) at 15:05, and a run turnaround cut-off at 17:05. Both days run to the same times.
Bike and gear check-out is at T2 (Oceanice) from 15:30 to 19:00 on your own race day — Saturday for the women, Sunday for the men. Bring the bike check-out ticket from your athlete packet.
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