A-Race Reschedule: Training Suggestions

I should add that the course profiles aren't terribly different, new one might be slightly easier.  Bike courses have no major hills, but lots of noticeable ones to get a sizable total.  Looks like the new run course will add a longer hill at the far end.  And will also add that this is the end of Year 3 of triathlons for me.  Third half IM (ran at Rev3 Knoxville earlier this year), and like the 15th event.

Logs are not posted here as I'm fairly new to the site, but have posted everything for the last few years on Strands (might need to log-in, sorry).

You're putting in decent volume, but not enough, IMO, to merit a three-week, or even two-week, taper.  One week should do it.

If it were me, I'd do a 3-week (well, at this point, 2.5-week) race-specific block, then taper for a week to the race.  By 'race-specific' I mean that your key workouts are aimed at race-specific fitness, so longer intervals on the bike, maybe a tempo run one week and 2-mile repeats another week on the run, and longer intervals (maybe 400s) in the swim.  I would do a race rehearsal (I like a run-bike-run for this) next weekend (i.e., 10 days from now), given that it sounds like this weekend (which would be my preferred time to do it) is not an option for such a long workout.

Thank Michael!  Exactly the kind of info I was looking for.  Like hearing that I should go even shorter with the taper.  The 400's sound good for swimming, I'll likely do 400-500 yd intervals.  Have had good success with this in the past.  I may put in one of the variety swims if today and tomorrow don't go as well.  Yesterday felt a little awkward, but could just be not swimming for a week and hopefully comes back fast.  The type I'm thinking is usually ~3,000 yds and has an assortment of things (drills, distances & efforts) listed out very specifically (name, reps, distance for everything) in the past workouts.  Great for getting all the muscles working hard, but not as much for pace setting or duration.

The run-bike-run brick sounds like a very good idea.  Since you said for a race rehearsal, I would take this as doing like 5-6 miles for each run and ride about what the course distance would be, in my case 56 miles.  I was planning to ride the Rev3 Wisconsin routes next weekend (Oly + Half dist), but will switch this in instead.  Terrain should be close enough too.  I like to make sure and became familiar with terrain as I get closer so I know how to navigate it better.  Earlier is just going hard as fitness is fitness then.  I am planning a major ride this weekend.  Like the Arcadia ride from my postings.  It's long, has a number of hard sections, but is less specific than the rehearsal would be.  Riding is my favorite of the 3 disciplines too, so is the easiest to handle going long mentally and I can get a lot of solid work in as I feel.  I had to meet or exceed FTP at Arcadia to make it up these hills, even with a 28t.

In addition to what you said for running, I'm going to keep up the run volume, and try to increase a little if I can.  Running has really stunk for me starting in mid-late June because of calf trouble.  The expectations I have in the next few weeks would be for adapting more for the distance than for increasing run fitness.  Threshold is still strong (for me), as indicated in the duathlon and two tempo runs in August.  The distance could be interesting with the (lack of) volume over the summer.  Hopefully the swimming and especially biking help with that, at least parts of it.