So how have people dealt with tapering then having their race pushed back by two weeks? Seems like there is very little precedent for having to adapt training to this type of situation so it will be interesting to see how that impacts the results.
I'll start - my coach and I basically decided to just do a repeat of my 12-day taper. I did 6x 100+ mile rides in the three months prior to Oct 3, the last of which was 2 weeks before the planned race date. I honestly felt like he gave me a taper that was a little too short, so the rescheduling may end up benefitting me.
We felt it was probably too risky to throw in yet another 80-100 miler because I was feeling pretty close to the end of my rope with training by the time my original taper began. So for the last two weekends I did 2.5-3 hour trainer rides at high intensity - most of it at 85% of FTP - then called it a day. Runs were 14 miles and 10 miles, again mostly tempo intensity.
We'll know in a week whether this was truly the right call!
Your turn - how have you and/or your coach adapted training to this odd, pretty unprecedented schedule change?
I'll start - my coach and I basically decided to just do a repeat of my 12-day taper. I did 6x 100+ mile rides in the three months prior to Oct 3, the last of which was 2 weeks before the planned race date. I honestly felt like he gave me a taper that was a little too short, so the rescheduling may end up benefitting me.
We felt it was probably too risky to throw in yet another 80-100 miler because I was feeling pretty close to the end of my rope with training by the time my original taper began. So for the last two weekends I did 2.5-3 hour trainer rides at high intensity - most of it at 85% of FTP - then called it a day. Runs were 14 miles and 10 miles, again mostly tempo intensity.
We'll know in a week whether this was truly the right call!
Your turn - how have you and/or your coach adapted training to this odd, pretty unprecedented schedule change?