Three More Training Weeks

I officially have three more weeks of hard training left, and then a glorious, glorious taper until Ironman.

Last weekend's race at Syracuse taught me that I need to focus on my bike fitness.  I am very happy with my swim and run fitness and how those have progressed over the past few months.  So I've decided to add short bike rides to my training, even on days when bikes are not scheduled.  Nothing crazy -- I don't want to break myself so close to the race.  But just short rides here and there to get in some more miles.

So the next four weeks will look like this:

• Week 1 = Bike-focused training
• Week 2 = Bike-focused training
• Week 3 = Normal training (begin reducing miles as week progresses)
• Week 4 = Taper for Ironman

It's going to be hard to fit everything in over the next two weeks, but I feel that I'll be ready for the race if I keep focused and get my training sessions in.  The challenge will be finding the delicate balance between what will improve my fitness for the race while not treading too far over the line of overtraining.  I will keep a close watch on my energy levels and adjust as needed.  I'd rather go into the race undertrained than overtrained.