ALOHA TRI Traun: Course, Route Profile & Map

Course & Elevation

The day starts on the sand beach of the Oedter See, with the aquabike field in the same wave. Out of the water you head into the transition area inside the Eishalle Traun, which the organiser calls the only indoor transition zone in Austria. The bike is two laps of one loop: at the Almi roundabout you turn left after the first lap and right after the second, back towards transition. Four run laps on the park and asphalt course around the venue follow.

The venue is the Freizeitzentrum Oedt: a bathing lake with a sand beach, an outdoor pool and the ice hall side by side, plus the ALOHA Event City with its expo and catering. Spectators watch the swim from the shore and from the steps behind the beach. Saturday belongs to the youth categories and Sunday to the adults; the race has been held every year in early August since at least 2022.

The time limits of this race day are absolute times of day rather than net times from your own start, and they are checked at four points: the swim exit, leaving the first transition, returning to the second, and the finish. Miss one and you are taken out of the race rather than left to continue slower. The bike roads are not closed, Austrian road law applies and several patches of damaged surface are marked. Wetsuit use is decided by the technical officials under ÖTRV rules, sometimes only shortly before the start.

Pacing Strategy

Of the three disciplines the swim is the shortest and also the cheapest place to ruin the day. 1.5 kilometres in the lake buy you little against the field, while going out too hard costs you the opening bike kilometres. Take the first buoy under control and find clear water after that.

The Kurzdistanz is decided on the run, but the decision is set up on the bike. A good 80 minutes of flat riding without any recovery tempts you into pacing off the fields around you: you share the road with the aquabike starters and later with the sprint race that goes off behind you, so you are passing or being passed constantly. Drafting is banned with a 10 metre box anyway, so ride your own number.

The closing run laps fall into the middle of an August day on a course with almost no shade, and the bike limit gives you no help there: it is a time of day that applies to everyone, so a late return from the bike directly shortens the window left for the run. Plan the run backwards from that, and drink at the aid station you pass once per lap.

Training plan for ALOHA TRI Traun: 12-week build

For an age-group athlete the Kurzdistanz here takes roughly two and a half to three hours. The demand is continuously aerobic and unusually uniform: there is no climb dictating the intensity and no descent taking it back. Everything comes from how you steer it yourself.

The race-deciding moment is the move from bike to run. Brick sessions are not an add-on here, they are the core of the preparation: 60 to 75 minutes of riding at race intensity followed immediately by 25 to 40 minutes of running. Three or four of those in the final six weeks reproduce race day realistically.

The swim needs open-water habit rather than pool speed. The start is from the sand beach, which means wading into shallow water and spending the first hundred metres in a crowd. Practise exactly that: racing starts in a group, sighting on buoys, finding rhythm without a pool wall. Because the wetsuit call can come shortly before the start, you want to have swum both versions more than once.

Conditions are the second focus. Early August in the Upper Austrian flatland often means well above 25 degrees, and the run laps are unsheltered. Deliberately place some sessions in midday heat in the weeks beforehand, and practise self-supply on the bike, where there is no aid station. Drinking at race pace belongs in the brick runs.