Ladies, I was looking at this month and trying to figure out how to arrange my training schedule. Memorial day weekend, the 26th and 28th, I am doing a mini-sprint tri and a 10k respectively. Neither are A races for me, my main goal is an Olympic in July.

I'm trying to figure out how to arrange my rest week and taper week. Normally, I do a recovery week after 2-3 weeks of hard training, depending on how my body feels and do a taper during the week before the race (like for a Saturday sprint, I'll start tapering on Monday). Right now, I'm going into my 3rd hard week of training and feeling great - I'm not tired, sleeping and resting well, and my workouts are going great - just some residual mild muscle soreness, but not enough to affect me. I'm mainly focusing on building distance, with an occasional effort thrown in.

So I should take a rest week next week, but then (May 14th - 20th) my taper should be starting on the 21st. Then again, I could make this a rest week even though I'm feeling good, then have one hard week, then taper down. Or maybe just throw in a few extra rest days over this week and next and leave the rest of the workouts the same, then taper the last week.

Do any of you ladies have any suggestions on what would be the best thing here. Again, these races don't mean much to me but I don't want to go into them wasted. These races are mainly to see friends, maybe have a friend doing his first race, and see how much I've improved over one year (this was my first tri ever last year).