Missed my Long Bike

Yep, you're fine. Most plans are written with the assumption that you're going to miss a day or two here and there, even some key workouts. Generally, unless you're planning to win the thing, as long as you do most of the workouts most of the time, you're going to be fine.

Also, good luck with whatever crisis is happening. Hang in there!

There was an interesting article in one of the tri magazines in the last few months, and though I can't remember the exact specifics (author, magazine, month, etc), the author noted that missing a 'long' or endurance workout is better than missing a key workout, or skill-related workout

Plus, I have always heard the 80 percent rule. You are going to be doing just fine. Seriously, you will do great.

I totally understand the feeling of freaking out over missing long rides.  I trained for 8 months for my first IM and missed MANY long bike and run days in the final 3 months.  I also never made it to my peak days, due to a new job that I started 3 months prior to my race.  This new job interfered with my training schedule big time.  

Sometimes missing the long days actually made my short day (1 1/2 hour runs, 3 hour rides) much better.  I felt great, set new personal bests and really just felt great.  Overall - it didn't seem to affect things to much...I just got back on track and resumed the training.  Did what I could.  

I finished my IM in 14 hours 51 mins.  If you have not missed any training to date, and you are up to 80 mile rides - YOU WILL BE JUST FINE.... your body will probably enjoy the extra break and reward you.  I wouldn't sweat it at all, although I understand why it is stressful. 

Good luck in your IM.  Sounds like you are going to do great.  

Treat it as mental preparation.  Things may go wrong in the long day of an IM race and you need to be able to think calmly under pressure - whether its your goggles coming off, a puncture or getting a headache on the run - all of this things are traumatic if you don't have a plan to deal with them.

People finish IM's after getting injured in their prep (me), having a concert going on until 2am on the night/morning of the race in Austria (me), having their HR monitor freak out and not be available from halfway through the bike (me).

It's all part of the journey and why you will have a feeling of pride when you finish that lasts a life time.

I always smile politely when people tell me they could do an IM race 'if they had the time' - dealing with adversity like blips in your training / race - big and small are just one of the reasons why it's about more than just time.

Missing one session doesn't matter at all but what you can work on and think about (perhaps on your nice long run that's approaching) is how you can use some calming mental techniques to deal with them calmly so little things don't turn into big deals.

Stress wastes energy and if there's one thing we don't have to waste in an IM it's energy.

(congratulations on only missing one session to date by the way! I don't know anyone that's managed to hit that high a percentage of sessions before - you must be super organised)