Yeah; you'll be fine.

Only one way to find out. But if you are in decent shape you should be fine the next day if not later the same day.

Perhaps I'm missing your question, but there is no qualifying required for USA Triathlon Sprint Nationals...other than the ability to pay $150 bucks for their sprint distance race. You can skip both races and still go to the Nationals in the sprint distance regardless.

That said, while the sprint distance is short, if I put 100% training/effort into hitting it for my "A" race, I wouldn't expect to perform quite as well one week later. Put another way, I wouldn't schedule "A" races back to back if my goal was top performance. But, it should be no problem to do both, focus on one or the other, and do well. Lots of guys at Nationals race the olympic distance on Saturday and the sprint distance on Sunday so the recovery time is about 22 hours. You'll be OK with a week.

Whats the big deal? At worlds I did the Aquathlon on Weds, Sprint on Friday, and Olympic on Monday, all flat out.

Week rest between races, especially a sprint, is no big deal.

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Thanks for the responses, all.


Sorry, should've been more specific. It's to qualify for the Olympic distance.


Definitely not my first choice, but out of about 8 races this upcoming season these are the two most important to me. Typically they're a month apart, but there was a date change.


Yes, I did this in 2013 (USAT Nationals Oly, then the Sprint the next day). I didn't even try to go all out in the Sprint race in that case. Just did it because I was there.

I've done this once or twice. Its no big deal recovering in a week between sprint races.

Dat cuz Beyonce gives you a massage?

Ha. Well it's funny you should mention it. The real Mrs. JayZ happens to be a yoga teacher blessed with magic in her fingers.

I've done Sprint races one day apart many times, even in my 40's. You'll be fine.

The website says no qualifying race; you're right in that regard.

However, what this actually means is that if an athlete qualifies for Olympic distance nationals, they can opt to do the sprint in addition to or in lieu of the Olympic. An athlete can't sign up for the sprint without qualifying for the Olympic.

If this is wrong please correct me because I was initially confused by the no-qualifier-nationals concept as well until my coach explained it to me this way!

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Nope. You've been misinformed. No qualifying required for the Sprint. Any and all athletes are welcome without qualifying.

If you can do the Sprint in 50 mins you will do just fine.

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You will be fine.
In 2 weeks, I have the first of two 70.3's, one week before the second.
If I can recover, you should be able to as well.

That's what I was thinking.

Well….today I finished the first of these two races. At your guys' recommendation, I didn't hold back and ended up snagging a podium spot (AG 3rd out of 68). Thanks for prodding me ;)

I imagine I need to be doing lots of recovery riding/running this week. Hopefully I can repeat that performance a week from today...

Yay podium!

Were you ~50 minutes?

Hell NO..lol. More like 1:07. I'll take it.

What were the distances. Specifically the bike. Was it 10 or 13 miles?

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It's a reverse triathlon on an Air Force base. 5k run, 13.1 mile bike, 200 meter pool melee ...I mean, swim. http://www.raceonthebase.com

Ah, i hate those.

I was just guaging because that 1:07 is my 10 mile bike sprint time. And I was ready to race again in a couple days.

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I wouldn't do LOTS of recovery. An hour flat out shouldn't require 6 days of recovery. I lay low for a couple days and if I feel recovered, I will do maybe 3, 5 minute 105% FTP efforts with 5 minutes rest in between on Tuesday. Then I do recovery for 2 days and a couple openers on Friday.

Sounds good...I'm just a little gun shy. I don't want to F-up the race next weekend. Are some high intensity run intervals in order too...or is that pushing it? Or maybe a few half-mile repeats at race pace? Sorry, I'm making this up as I go along...

Well I am kinda assuming you took it a little easy (tapered or semi-tapered) for last week's race. So the race should not have been super taxing on your system, not that much different than a longer hard workout.

The benefit of the previous race would be that it was a good intensity workout and should help you build for a great result this weekend. A harder, but shorter, mid week workout should give you a good gauge of your recovery and help build that final top-end speed/fitness. If I feel pretty fresh on Tuesday, I know I am recovering well. If not, don't bury yourself trying to get another workout in.

if you want to ride and run kinda hard, try and limit the TSS for both to maybe 70 for the entire workout. This might be 3, 3 minute efforts at 105% on the bike and a couple similar efforts on the run.

You can repeat the next *day*

You will be fine

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