Gold plan vs Free plan...

Is this plan in your planned training log?  If so, what are the date ranges?  I will take a look at it.

Also, what 'level' did you choose?  Beg, Int or Advanced?

Yes its my current active plan....

More info... Its a beginner plan and I made an error I compared it to the Free HIM plan not the Free beginner HIM plan (I did not scroll down far enough in the free plans to realize there was both a HIM and an beginner HIM)

Comparing beginner to beginner they seem much more similar. so there really isn't an issue. Thanks for the quick response.

For the gold plan I like the fact that is has a full distance bike ride and a full distance run as going into the HIM without having done the full distance would be psychologically harder...

I also realize that the Free beginner HIM plan is very Swim focused and in setting up this gold plan I chose to only do 2 swim workouts as I'm completely ok with my current swim ability  and comfortable with OWS and still have 20 weeks to go.

The overall goal is to run the HIM on my 50th birthday. I've swum and run the distances, my major focus for now is on the bike. (42 miles is my longest ride)

Allright, not a problem.  Let me know if you need anything else.

Comparing the volumes of the Silver plan and the Gold HIM plans could be like apples to oranges like you mentioned, if you aren't comparing plans with the same s/b/r per week, it's going to be hard.