Husky - The Tapering Plan

Five days until the Huskisson Long Course Triathlon.

Swim 2km, Ride 83km, Run 20km.

I thought that in order to taper properly I should work out about what kind of training I had been doing over the last four weeks. It looks something like this:

Swim:
2 hours per week
2x 45mins / 2km lunchtime pool sessions during the week
1x Open water ocean swim on Sunday between 1.5 – 2.5km or 30 - 45mins

Bike:
6 – 7:30 hours per week
2x Boundary Riders 90mins / 40km during the week (Tues / Thurs)
1x Long ride on the weekend 3 - 4.5 hours (70 – 120km)
1x Brick session on Saturday (instead of or as well as long ride) - 2 hours riding / 55km

Run:
5 – 5:30 hours per week
2x 60mins with the boys at lunch during the week. Varying intervals, usually 20 – 45mins hard with warm up and cool down bringing it to around an hour total (Tues / Thurs)
1x Long run on the weekend 2:30 – 3:30mins
1x Brick run on Saturday (occasionally) – 6km / 30mins

Yoga:
3 – 3:30hours
2x 1.5hours morning mysore

Total training hours in swimming biking and running:
13 – 15 hours per week

So this week the plan for this week's race week taper is:

Mon: Swim 2km

Tues: Boundary riders 40km ride
Pain in the Domain 25min fartlek run

Wed: Yoga
Swim 2km

Thurs: Bike intervals on indoor trainer (45 mins)
Run tempo 30 mins with a couple of faster strides thrown in

Fri: Yoga

Sat: 15 mins bike race pace + 15 mins run race pace

Sun: Race!

I can't believe I used Pain in the Domain as my taper! But compared to the usual Tuesday sessions it was an easy run. I like that. I didn't push hard in the sprints anyway. Hope this plan works!