The Challenge Cancún course is distinguished for being flat and fast as well as hot and humid.

CHALLENGE Cancun 113K, both individual and relay team, will consist of a 1.9km swim, followed by a 90 km bike and finally a 21 km run.

CHALLENGE Cancun Sprint and Women’s will be consisting of a 1.0km swim, a 36km bike course and a 7km run.

Swim Course

The swim leg will take place on one of Cancun’s best beaches: Playa Langosta, in Kilometer 5 of the Hotel Zone. Athletes will complete a 1 loop course depending on their distance (1.9 and 1.0KM) and will be able to identify the course marked by buoys and Life’s life guards and paramedics will be visible throughout the course. Race officials will mark and supervise the distances. The swim for Challenge Cancun is a run-in start from the shore. The ocean’s temperature in April is around 26º C and the deepest part of the course is around 6 meters.

Sprint & Women’s Challenge: 1 loop of 1,000 meters

113K individual and relay: 1 loop of 1.900 metes

 

Bike Course

The second leg of the event will be a 3 loop course beginning on the lagoon side lane. Athletes will head up towards kilometer 14 and make a U turn to come back down to kilometer 0, turn into downtown Cancun on Av. Bonampak and make their second U turn in front of Transition 2, which is Club Casablanca. For athletes racing the 133K, the course will be 3 loops. For sprinter, the course is just 1 loop. The bike curse will have 4 medical service points and 1 double aid station located close to Playa Langosta (kilometer 5 of the Hotel Zone). Race officials will be supervising the course.

Sprint & Women’s Challenge: 1 loop of 36K

113K individual and relay: 3 loops

 

BIKE COURSE RULES

RUN COURSE

For the last part of the race, athletes will head out of T2 (Club Casablanca) and run onto the North-South lane of Av. Bonampak to complete an easy straight line 3 loop course. Sprint distance will run 1 loop. The course will have 3 medical stations with Life’s paramedics and first class services. Water stations will be every mile and will have: water, powerade, fruit, soda and ice.
Athletes will cross the finish line within Club Casablanca.

Sprint & Women’s Challenge: 1 loop of 7K

113K individual and relay: 3 loops of 7K

 

SPRINT COURSE MAPS
113K COURSE MAPS