Race Intelligence · Shanghai, China
Shanghai asks for patience ten times over: two swim loops, four on the bike and four on the run. There is little climbing to break the rhythm. You have to decide for yourself when a good lap becomes a wasteful one.
Shanghai, the Pudong skyline.
Your day in Haiwan
I’m Tom, the coach behind Sense Endurance Coaching. Tell me where you are now and I’ll show you what a strong day in Haiwan could look like.
The course behind your race
The 2026 course starts in Haiwan's forest-park waterways, travels repeatedly along the northern coast of Hangzhou Bay and finishes with four laps in the park. The challenge is not finding a big moment to be brave. It is refusing to make each early circuit slightly harder than it needs to be.
Haiwan National Forest Park waterways
Two laps in the Haiwan waterways can make the swim feel deceptively neat. Don't use the second lap to correct an ordinary first one. Find a good line, repeat the effort and get to the bike with your breathing steady.
Settle by 300 m. Carry the same rhythm into loop 2.
Hangzhou Bay coast, early bike laps
The flat Hangzhou Bay coastline gives you no terrain excuse to vary effort lap to lap. Set your planned power or effort on lap 1 and treat it as the standard for the rest.
Check effort before average speed. Start fuelling early.
Hangzhou Bay, later coastal laps
By the later coast-side laps, you will know every turn and may mistake familiarity for spare energy. Keep the power you chose on lap one and make the repeated route work for you, not against you.
Compare each lap's effort to lap 1. Finish your nutrition before T2.
Haiwan forest trails, opening run laps
The shaded forest trails give consistent footing and consistent feedback. Use the first two laps to find a sustainable pace, not to test a fast one.
Shorten your stride out of T2. Take every aid station on every lap.
Haiwan forest trails, closing run laps
Run the opening forest laps by breathing and form. When you know how the legs are handling the surface, decide whether the final circuits deserve more pace.
Compare the back half to the front honestly. Keep the finish decision yours.
The 2026 bike description is not quite settled: four laps are given for the 90 km race, but another course description refers to a 25 km coastal stretch. Check the final lap map before memorising turns. Then check the swim buoys, forest-trail footing and aid locations, and plan how to repeat your fuelling without relying on identical lap splits.
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Prepare for Haiwan
A finish range gives you something to work towards. The preparation is specific to this race: repeating an economical swim, controlled coastal bike effort and patient run laps feels natural, even when the same course keeps offering another chance to accelerate.
I’m Tom. With Sense Endurance Coaching, I’ll build that preparation around your life, follow how you respond and adjust the work as you get closer to Haiwan.
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