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I am following the level 3 Matt Fitzgerald HIM plan from the book Essential week by week training guide. I am at week 12, which is a recovery week because the hope is that I would find an Olympic distance tri to do this weekend. Since life is not perfect, my race is actually NEXT weekend, which puts me back on a week where I will be building volume. My fear is that I will be too fatigued to do well next weekend if I don't back off next week. At the same time, I feel like I need this recovery week after the last three weeks of building. The last couple workouts took everything I had to complete and I was still cramping. Would it hurt me more to do two recovery weeks, do a little more this week and recover next week, or is there another option? This is my first Olympic race and first HIM. Thank you!


2015-04-01 12:18 AM
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Unless you're truly hanging in there by your fingernails, I'd hold off on the recovery week until the week before the race, take it, and then maybe take 4-5 days easy after the race to make sure you're fully recovered before jumping back into full-on HIM training. I'm at a similar place in HIM training, and I know if I didn't take a recovery week, I'd be too fatigued to have an optimal performance in an Oly. With a week of recovery, no problem. But I don't think I need two weeks to get rested enough to race well at that distance.
2015-04-01 1:02 PM
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I struggle with this often as I like to race a lot and am constantly juggling my plan to find some type of compromise.  I'm about halfway through my 20-week HIM plan and had a recovery week planned for next week which fortunately coincided with a vacation.  I ran a marathon this last weekend and didn't really want to take a week of recovery from that and then be on vacation.  I decided to suck it up and try to get a normal training week in knowing that I can relax next week.  So far so good.

If I was in your shoes looking at an Oly I'd plan a mini-taper going in and reverse that on the other side.  Three to four days going in and three to four after. Good luck.

2015-04-03 12:37 AM
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Thank you!!
2015-04-03 12:39 AM
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This is helpful, thank you!
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