Two Related Questions:
1) Whats the average recovery time after racing a half IM hard? Should you take a recovery super easy week - then go 50% training volume for a week - then back to the swing of things? Assuming you have an olympic you'd like to race a few weeks later?
2) What are people's opinions of racing a 1/2 IM as a training race 5 weeks prior to a "goal race - 1/2 IM"? How much would you have to back-off during the training race to recover to full peak training 1 week after the training race? I'd like to do the training race - take it easy for a week - do some peak training for 3 weeks - taper for a week and then do my goal race......am I overdoing it?
Thanks
1) Whats the average recovery time after racing a half IM hard? Should you take a recovery super easy week - then go 50% training volume for a week - then back to the swing of things? Assuming you have an olympic you'd like to race a few weeks later?
2) What are people's opinions of racing a 1/2 IM as a training race 5 weeks prior to a "goal race - 1/2 IM"? How much would you have to back-off during the training race to recover to full peak training 1 week after the training race? I'd like to do the training race - take it easy for a week - do some peak training for 3 weeks - taper for a week and then do my goal race......am I overdoing it?
Thanks