if it's not too close to the event - just do the sprint and in the afternoon add a 2 hour ride, and run Sunday if a Saturday race - or if a Sunday race move the long run midweek and do the same ride after the race on race day.

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Move one of your down weeks to the week of the sprint tri

Typically, I do a 10K "cooldown" run after the sprint. I also look for Sprints that are on Saturday, so I can still do long/easy on Sunday and so that I didn't do a long/hard day right before the race.

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I would agree if you do "down weeks" in your plan you can pair that with the sprint. Otherwise a good option is to do race the sprint, afterwards put in a couple hours on the bike. Do the long run on a separate day, maybe midweek like you suggest.

I did two sprints a month before an IM and the only thing I would do different is race only one. It was good to get out and race a short hard effort but doing it twice took away some of the focus from my long IM specific sessions.