Before you toe the start line, know the course. Best Bike Split breaks down popular triathlon, road, gravel, and mountain bike courses with elevation analysis, power targets, and physics-based pacing strategies — so you can build your race plan before race day arrives.
107 miles through the Driftless Region of Southeastern Minnesota, with a rebuilt middle third, a retained Chicken Ridge climb, and a Stars and Stripes jersey on the line for every category. Here is your complete course breakdown and race day intel.
IRONMAN Wisconsin 2026 pairs a Lake Monona swim with a hilly, two-loop 112-mile bike through Dane County farmland and a two-loop marathon finishing on State Street. Here's the course breakdown and a Best Bike Split pacing plan for race day.
/ 150 miles, 10,000 feet of climbing, and 98% gravel through the open farm roads of Southeast Nebraska. Here is your complete course breakdown, finishing time benchmarks, and race day intel for the 2026 Lauf Gravel Worlds GW150.
/ IRONMAN Kalmar-Sweden 2026 pairs a Baltic swim with a flat, two-loop 180K bike crossing the exposed Öland Bridge twice and a three-loop marathon finishing in Stortorget. Here's the course breakdown and a Best Bike Split pacing plan.
/ The Leadville Trail 100 MTB 2026 is the Race Across the Sky, but this year it's racing a course nobody has seen before. Wildfire damage west of town has forced Life Time to reroute around Hagerman Pass, Sugarloaf Mountain and Powerline for the first time ever.
/ IRONMAN 70.3 Rio de Janeiro 2026 pairs a Copacabana Beach swim with a technical, tunnel-heavy 90K bike through Rio's Zona Sul and a flat 21.1K run finishing at Marina da Glória. Here's the course breakdown and a Best Bike Split pacing plan.
/ IRONMAN Canada-Ottawa 2026 brings full-distance racing to a national capital: a river swim, a 180 km loop past Embassy Row and the Rideau Canal, and a run finishing at Parliament Hill. Here's the course breakdown and a Best Bike Split pacing plan.
/ IRONMAN Lake Placid 2026 is one of the sport's most iconic and demanding North American courses, with a two-loop, 112-mile ride through the Adirondack Mountains with roughly 7,000 ft of climbing. Here's your bike course breakdown and race power plan.
/ IRONMAN 70.3 Boise 2026 opens with a fast dam descent, rolls through 30+ miles of closed-road Ada County farmland, and finishes with a Greenbelt run. Here's the course breakdown and a Best Bike Split pacing strategy for race day.
/ IRONMAN Frankfurt 2026 is Europe's premier full-distance triathlon — a two-loop, 180 km Taunus bike course with ~1,800m of climbing and the legendary "Der Hammer." Here's your complete bike course breakdown and Best Bike Split race plan guide.
/ IRONMAN France Nice 2026 is a World Championship-pedigree race on the French Riviera — a single-loop, 180 km bike course with ~2,200m of climbing through the pre-Alps. Here's your bike course breakdown and Best Bike Split race plan guide.
/ SBT GRVL Black 2026 is 108 miles of Routt County champagne gravel with 8,189 feet of climbing — one of America's premier gravel races. Here's your complete course breakdown and Best Bike Split race plan guide for Steamboat Springs.
/ BWR Montana 2026 is the Quad-Tripel Crown finale: 115 miles, 8,240 ft of climbing, 16 unroad sectors, and race-deciding singletrack through the Northern Rockies. Here's your complete Waffle course breakdown and Best Bike Split race plan.
/ IRONMAN Hamburg 2026 is one of the fastest full-distance courses in Europe — and its pancake-flat, two-loop bike leg is pure aero execution. Here's a complete bike course breakdown plus how to build your Best Bike Split race plan for race day.
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