IRONMAN Italy Emilia-Romagna 2027
A warm Adriatic swim off Cervia, a flat bike through Romagna farmland, and a flat three-lap run past the old salt warehouses. Fast and welcoming.
2027 edition completed
This record covers the 18 September 2027 edition of IRONMAN Italy Emilia-Romagna in Cervia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, with a 3.8 km swim, a 180 km bike and a 42.2 km run. This date belongs to a completed edition. The course record remains available. Course descriptions and coaching notes are archived context for this edition. Check the organiser for a future edition once its date and entry details are published.
48 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.
“Warm flat water and flat roads in September. A very sensible first full distance abroad, and the food afterwards is not a small consideration.”
The race
The course
Interactive swim route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
A single loop from the central beach at Cervia, out into the Adriatic and along the shoreline before turning back into transition. One long straight in warm, usually calm water. If you can hold a line you will swim a good time here.
Interactive bike route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
Two loops from the Cervia promenade through the Romagna countryside and the Salt Pans nature park, with the flamingos. The one real feature is Bertinoro, after which the course descends back towards Cervia. Otherwise this is a flat, fast, honest bike leg.
Interactive run route in the Course Lab above ↑ Drawn from the official GPX file, checked against this leg's distance.
Four laps of 10km, completely flat, through Cervia and Milano Marittima and along the port canal. A pancake marathon at the end of a fast bike, which is a personal best setup and an equally good way to blow up if the bike felt too easy.
Not yet confirmed for this edition: bike elevation gain, cut-off times, aid station spacing, water temperature history. 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 IRONMAN Italy Emilia-Romagna course page on 13 August 2026. Courses change; the official page is always the last word.
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Photograph of Cervia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy: piero drago, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Not official race photography.
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