Jim Kelley's (Birkierunner) General and Long Course Group (OPEN) (Page 19)

Yes...the move is disrupting training.  I am moving to small town and the only gym with a pool I have been able to find only has a 15 yard pool.  They said that I can swim laps any time they don't have classes, but they have water arobic classes 5 days a week during the hours I would need to be in the pool before work and three days a week during the hours I would need to be in the pool during my lunch break.  I also am worried that I won't find roads I can cycle or run on.  I have a goal to do the Redman 70.3 Triathlon in Oklahoma City in 20 weeks. I know that lots of my training type is going to turn into working on projects for the move, but home that things will all work out.  

Thanks for the photos.  Here are a few more from my race three weeks ago.   All photo are credited to my friend Scott.   

Though call...hopefully other with chime in on this, but for me four weeks out is when I want to be training my hardest.  Sometime I feel really overworked during these training week, but I usually have a rest week or the start of a taper following them so I just push through them and tell my self I can either hurt now in training or hurt later during the race.  

A taper for a full Iron race is typically 3-4 weeks long.  Some may do as little as a 10 day taper if they do a flat volume training plan rather than training cycles that increase volume followed by rest weeks.  It looks like your plan outlines about 2-1/2 hours swimming, 8 hours cycling, and 3-1/2 hours running at one month out for a total of 14 hours.  I didn't look at the entire plan, but it looks like the highest volume weeks is about 18 hours.  A good 4 week taper would look something like 14 hours @ 4 weeks, 10 hours @ 3 weeks, 6 hours @ 2 weeks, 3 hours @ the week of the race.  

They say that you really only need to cut the cycling and running volumes at the beginning of the taper and that the swimming volume can stay where it is right up to about the week of the race.

Yes...if you follow a taper like I listed above you will have plenty of sleep in days.  In steady of getting up for a 2-1/2 hour work out you can sleep in an hour and do a 1-1/2 hour work out.  :-)

P.S. As far as work goes, when I have trained in groups the guys that are on their feet 8 hours a day at work typically were less stressed by increases in volume than the guys that were sitting behind a desk for 8 hours at work.  It seemed to come down the the training as to how people in the group would race though.  If being on your feet helps you get through training the time on you feet is helping you.  If it is slowing your training down then you might need to get in more rest so that you can keep your intensity up during training.

cD = Cool down

Build = ???,  Just taking a guess, but I think this would mean to start out slow and slowly increase so that you finish fast.

On the swim times, middle of the pack in a race with a 1.2 mile swim is about 35-40 minutes.  The times listed are estimated work out times to help you plan how much time it might take to complete the work out (i.e. if a pool is going to close for an aqua class, or open lap swimming time is limited, you need to know how long the plan for).  If you are a 54 minute swimmer rather than a 35 minute swimmer the work out may take you 70 minutes to complete.  A 26 minute 1.2 miles swimmer may complete the work out in 30 minutes.   Just focus on the distances since that is what is the same regardless of skill level. 

Nice video.  The Dutch is fine.  It gives a better feel for the culture.