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Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please
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I have done 3 other IM's all with 3 week tapers. They always seem to leave me feeling lazy and flat. This year I want to do a 2 week and I dont know if I am laying this out correctly.

All training done well above race pace, average 14 hrs a week for last 3 months. Have put in at least 8 rides over 100mi. Running has maxed at 16mi so far since it takes me too long to recover if I go longer.

Does this look good or should I cut back further?

Starting tomorrow-

Sat 5th - Long bike 105-110mi and 4-5mi run
Sun 6th - rest day

Mon 7th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 1hr, run 30'
Tues 8th -swim 45' A/M - Run 16-17mi (last long run)
Wed 9th - swim 45'A/M - Bike 1hr (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Thurs 10th - swim 45' A/M - Run 7-8mi
Fri 11th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 1hr - 30' run
Sat 12th - Long bike 105-110mi and 4-5mi run
Sun 13th - Rest Day


Mon 14th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 45', run 20'
Tues 15th -swim 45' A/M - Run 6 mi
Wed 16th - swim 45'A/M - Bike 1hr (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Thurs 17th - swim 45' A/M - Run 4-5mi
Fri 18th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 45'- 15' run
Sat 19th - Long bike 60 mi and 2 mi run
Sun 20th - Rest Day

Mon 21st - swim 45' A/M - Bike 30', run 15'
Tues 22nd -swim 45' A/M - Run 3-4mi
Wed 23rd - swim 45'A/M - Bike 30' (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Thurs 24th - swim 45' A/M - Run 3 mi
Fri 25th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 30' (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Sat 26th - run 15' add a few strides ( bike in transition)
Sun 27th - RACE DAY
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Re: Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please [Rover24] [ In reply to ]
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I would do way less volume, some speed use the last days for full recovery of minor acces. Stretch, sleep, ice, etc...

Sat 5th - Long bike 105-110mi and 4-5mi run
Sun 6th - rest day
Mon 7th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 1hr, run 30'
Tues 8th -swim 45' A/M - Run 16-17mi (last long run)
Wed 9th - swim 45'A/M - Bike 1hr (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Thurs 10th - swim 45' A/M - Run 7-8mi
Fri 11th - rest
Sat 12th - really Fast bike 30m and slow 4-5mi run
Sun 13th - Rest
Mon 14th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 45', run 20'
Tues 15th -swim 45' A/M - Run 6 mi
Wed 16th - swim 45'A/M - Bike 1hr (IM Pace Easy)- 15' run
Thurs 17th - swim 45' A/M - Run 4-5mi
Fri 18th - swim 45' A/M - Bike 45'- 15' run
Sat 19th - Really Fast bike 60 mi and slow 2 mi run
Sun 20th - Rest Day
Mon 21st - swim 45' A/M - Bike 30', run 15'
Tues 22nd -swim 45' A/M - Run 3-4mi
Wed 23rd - swim 45'A/M
Thurs 24th - rest
Fri 25th - rest
Sat 26th - rest
Sun 27th - RACE DAY


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Re: Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please [Rover24] [ In reply to ]
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IMO, too much during the last 8 days. Be confident in the work you've done. Rest!

Shorten your Sat 19th bike to 90 min max
Blow off the swim on Tues and Thurs of the last week.
Blow off the Friday 25th run.

"Good genes are not a requirement, just the obsession to beat ones brains out daily"...the Griz
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Re: Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please [Rover24] [ In reply to ]
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Love it in general. I'm convinced based on personal experience and coaching that tapers are vastly overrated. Don't be shy about pushing IM pace in workouts too. The only small change might be a rest day (or something close) on the Thursday before the race. CRUSH IT!

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Re: Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please [DaveRoche] [ In reply to ]
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yeah, resting 3 days prior to the race is a good way to be lost at times.

i have my im a week after yours.

i'm doing 18ish hours this week as my last heavy volume week. next week i'm doing about 11 hours, mostly intensity. 2 weeks out i'm doing 13.5 hours, still have some IM pacing and intensity in there but less volume. then week of ironman is 5-6 hours all zr/z1 stuff and rest day sat before the race.

good luck! i never do more than 2 week tapers. i lose my mind.

john
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Re: Trying 2 week taper, check my plan please [Rover24] [ In reply to ]
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I like a couple of write-ups by Matt Dixon looking at it more as sharpening, rather than tapering. Two weeks out I cut the volume a lot and just focus on dialing in IM effort in the swim and bike - a long run three weeks out might be 2 hrs with 1 hr IM pace, whereas two weeks out becomes 90 min with 3x15 min IM pace, I keep the swim much the same, but for example a 15x100 fast in my main set will maybe be 3 sets of 5x100 fast with some easy pulling as recovery in between. You can't build fitness in the final 10 days, but you can overdo it. It doesn't take as much effort to maintain your level of fitness as it took to get there to begin with. I also use the final two weeks to practice stuff specific to the race - ie transitions etc. In the final week it is very polarized - very, very easy or very hard (for very short periods of time ie 30-90 seconds), sessions are short, but the frequency remains high - ie for muskoka I did 4 swims, 3 runs (missed one), 3 rides in the 6 days before race day. That's what seemed to work for me, others might be different. I am self-coached so take my plan with a grain of salt!
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