Hi all,

Need your advice regarding the last two weeks before my A race on August 26th (70.3 Zell am See).

Been putting a lot of training (9-12h per week) into my A- race 70.3 Kraichgau on June 3rd.
Two weeks later I did an Olympic Distance race and another two weeks later a Sprint Distance (June 29th), with few to no structured training in between, just having fun racing.

My plan was to pick up structured training again on July 2nd with 2 weeks ramp up followed by 1 regeneration week until July 22nd.
Then put in my last 3 week training block with focus on race intensity (until August 12th) and a two week taper reducing to 70% in the first week, 50% in the second.

Unfortunately I couldn't do the 2week ramp up in July due to a cold, so I used the following week to get back into training.
I started my last training block with confidence but 1,5 week into it, I caught another cold (having a 7 month old baby at home I know where this is coming from).

So all in all, since 9,5 weeks I could manage 1,5 weeks structured training. A few weeks ago I knew which numbers to target in order to score my goals.

Does it make sense, iff the cold is gone by monday, to sacrifice the first week of taper to see what numbers to aim so put in one base week and see if it's comparable? If not, what would be an adequate percentage to aim for compared to my normal HIM numbers so that I don't blow up but still put in a great effort? How would you structure the last 2 weeks after a history of notrain?

Thanks a lot!