Two real mornings.
Not a mockup.

Yesterday was a full rest day — nothing logged, which is exactly right this deep into taper. Today calls for a threshold fitness test: a 5-minute easy warm-up, then 30 minutes at the fastest pace you can honestly hold, recording your average pace and heart rate as you go. This resets the numbers everything else gets built around, so treat it as real data collection, not a time trial to win.

You're 31 days out from Ironman, in Peak and Taper, with a fitness score of 59.2 — up 2.6 points over the past week. The job of this phase isn't to keep pushing that number higher; it's to let volume drop while the fitness you've already built converts into freshness for race day. Here's something worth knowing about your own numbers: your last 30 days break down to 43% swim, 35% run, and only 23% bike. Against a roughly equal-thirds target, the bike is what's quietly gone light heading into taper — not something to fix with a big session now, just worth knowing on the day.

Nothing concerning in the data this week — that's genuinely good. You've completed one session so far at 59.9 training stress, light, but appropriate for where you are in the plan. The one thing worth watching is making sure a light week doesn't slide into an empty one. Today's test should anchor the week, not be the only thing in it.

Run the test honestly — the pace and heart rate you record this morning are what the rest of your taper gets calibrated against.

— Training Intel

Yesterday was Ironman — the real thing, start to finish. 2.4 miles of swimming, 112 on the bike, then a 26.2-mile run to close it out, run at an average heart rate of 126 bpm. All told, roughly 14 hours and 31 minutes of swim-bike-run time, before you even count transitions. Today calls for nothing. No workout, no plan, nothing scheduled — and that's exactly correct.

You carried a freshness score of +21.8 into yesterday — that's the taper doing exactly what it was supposed to do. What's true this morning is a different number entirely: your fatigue level has spiked to 122.9, the highest reading anywhere in this build, which is precisely what one 14-plus-hour day of racing should produce. Your fitness score jumped to 71.6, up 8.1 points in a week — but that's a side effect of yesterday's output, not a new baseline to chase. It'll settle back down over the coming weeks, and that's normal, not a step backward. Yesterday was the finish line, not a new starting line.

With fatigue this high the day after a full Ironman, the only sensible move is real rest, not a token easy spin to "stay loose." The standard here is a minimum of two weeks of unstructured, easy movement before anything structured starts back up — today, with nothing on the plan, is the first of those days, and it should stay that way.

Today's only job is to let your body do what a year of training already earned — actually rest, and let today be about nothing at all.

— Training Intel