USA Triathlon Olympic Distance Age Group Championships (Page 2)

Dropping Tri-Rock is what I was thinking when seeing that list as well. It tends to be an expensive race. I'm far more course oriented than other people in my selection, but would actually consider Nationals ahead of that one because of what Nats is and that it's likely to move the next year.

The Racine HIM 3 weeks before certainly isn't optimal, but you can still give yourself a chance to move along well at Nationals. To start, prioritize recovery well above everything for most of, if not the full week after the HIM. I like some activity and find it to help speed things along, however, the intensity of this is only like Zone 1 if you have effort based guides. Another way to think of it is as just extended warm-ups. So warm-up effort, but go a little longer with it. Not trying to build any fitness here, just shedding the fatigue. Swimming & riding really easy gears you can spin well tend to work better than running for most due to the impact.

Then work in faster/harder work up until a few days before the Oly. If you recovered well that first week, there won't be a huge training load to taper down from. I'd be at Oly effort or harder, starting shorter for the hard work and going bigger as able. People vary in their recovery, so harder to say how much for sure you can get to. You should have a lot of fitness built up from the HIM training, so you'd mostly be just trying to get used to going faster again.

If you really wanted to prioritize Nationals as your main race for the season, then you would probably want to move or drop the HIM. You may still be able to race fairly well with it in there, but it wouldn't be optimal towards having the best race you could.