SBR Workout Order

Since I have completed my IM a little over a month ago, I have been sort of winging it with workouts. I have a general plan (or at least did) to start focusing on more speed work (tempos, shorter faster intervals, etc) since my next event is a sprint, but maintain my weekly long run and long bike (10 miles and 56 miles respectively) on the weekends. Also, I'm doing a marathon swim (9 miles) in September so I started adding a 1,500 to the beginning and the end of every swim session to mentally and physically start the groundwork for that. I then just put them in swim-bike-run order day to day (I don't take scheduled rest days, but rather take a day off whenever schedule or fatigue dictates). So slapping this all together, I get something that looks like:

Sunday: 56 mile bike
Monday: 7 mile run w/ 6x2 minute intervals
Tuesday: 4,500 m swim (1,500 warm up, various main sets, 1,500 cool down)
Wednesday: 30 mile bike w/ 6x4 minute intervals
Thursday: 6 mile tempo run
Friday: 4,500 m swim (1,500 warm up, various main sets, 1,500 cool down)
Saturday: 10 mile long run

The M-F cycle around and I switch them up. For the bike, I'll either do intervals or "hills" (going over a bridge...I live in the Keys), and for the run I will just do whatever workout I haven't in a while. So one week I'll have 3 runs and 2 bikes and the next I'll have 2 runs and 3 bikes.

I'm not sure if it is simply the lower workload or what, but I'm getting WAY faster, especially on the bike. Maybe it's all the base I built during the IM build-up finally translating to straight speed now that I'm shortening up the workouts, I don't know, but really, I'm digressing.

Here's the thing, all of a sudden my little pattern is thrown to the wind because I'm starting to travel pretty heavy for work. I'm doing a pilot test for some equipment and I'm going to the same place which has a nice gym where I can run and swim, but not bike. So now, I end up with weeks where I'll bike-swim/run/swim/run-bike/bike or something like that (if two of those happen in a row, I'd end up with three bike days in a row). So my question is; how do I deal with that? Do I adjust the workouts when I have multiple bike days in a row, or just maintain a cycle and skip some bike time...here's the kicker, those that know me know that the bike is my weakest sport, so I really don't want to miss any mileage. Also, so far, when I have two bike days in a row I make the workouts different, like I'll do intervals one day and a long Z2/3 bike the next, or if they both have to be short, I'll do intervals one day and hills the next. I have no idea if this makes sense...which is why I'm asking. Also, the travel schedule is all over the place, so whatever I do has to be flexible, but I'm sure to have multiple bike days in a row.

Edited by 3mar 2015-07-02 1:51 PM