You could of course alternate weekly…
One week: Saturday Long ride, Short Easy run Sunday
Second Week: Saturday long run, Short hard ride Sunday
Or…Run long every 3rd week - Make it either a bike focused week or run focused week.
While my stuff is not as long as yours is, I moved my long trainer rides to Thursday am and my long run to Saturday. I had found that doing both on the weekend really took a bunch out of me and I was thrashed for a couple of days. This change has me tired 2 days, but I can recover, be productive with my family, AND keep training. As races are starting, I am having to move things around again but will stay with something similar.
I swap the long ride/run all the time on the weekend due to weather and social obligations and don’t think anything of it, and my coach always gives me instructions that I can swap days if needed.
If I were you, I would do what you can to maximize sleep and family time. As others have said, if you can get in a 2-2.5 hour run on a weekday and sleep in on one weekend day, that will do a lot more for you in terms of training adaptation, and your family will thank you for it as well.
When I was self coached and 5 years younger, I actually used to do all my long rides on Tuesday mornings because I wanted a weekend day off to sleep in and/or party on Saturday nights. I had the luxury of getting to work between 9-10am so I could start a 4 hour trainer ride at 4:30 instead of 2 am which is just nuts. Point is, consistency is king and timing of workouts is overrated as long as you give yourself sufficient recovery time.
Thanks for all of the recommendations, folks. I guess I’ll just adjust as needed to get the workouts in. I’ve got 2 1/2 weeks till an 70.3 and then another 4 weeks after that is my A race, so not a ton of time to play around with scheduling - most of the hay is already in the barn.
I’m a huge believer in consistency and haven’t missed a workout this calendar year so far - knocking on wood for the remainder of the training to go well and head into my next races in great shape.
very interesting.
i usually move my long run on thursday the month before my tapering for IMs begins because i ve experienced some injury in my runner careeer so i always try to run on fresh legs and i prefer to be fresh even for the longest ride of the week.
i’m curious about the 2 long ride u were talking about:
i don’t know what do u mean for ‘long’ but i usually perform 3 or 4 100miles rides in the 2 months before IM and other 80/85 miles rides (sometimes indoor).
how would u ride these weekend rides? because even if i move the long run in the week…i usually have to run some miles during the weekend.