It’s horses for courses, always had a high volume approach, love to train generally. Whilst the lower hours might be one thing I comment on I think the real disappointment came from the lack of consistency and low motivation I had. Had those hours beens evenly spread over the week and generally of a reasonable quality I’d have been a lot happier.

Definitely routed in fatigue from the hard work of the previous few weeks and just not doing enough to recover well.

Daz

Ultimately how you taper comes down to fitness and what you want from the race. There’s been a lot of work lately and if I want to be fresh for the race I probably need a bigger taper.

On the other hand it isn’t really my priority race – I want it to be a very hard session, a test of my Kona readiness with time to work on things afterwards.

So feeling a bit fresher today I’m leaning towards the 4 days block and 2 day taper and see what comes on race day. The planned recovery week will then happen before the big push for Kona.

Sleep and recovery are a priority this week though having failed there last week.