i say go for it
you're going to taper rolling into race week anyway

Once school lets out I do my weekend workouts on Wednesday and Thursday. It leaves the weekends free for family time and recovery workouts. The back to back long ride/hour run day followed by the long run/hour ride day worked well for me.

I have done the same. If you need to adjust to the day of the week, do it for a couple of months immediately prior, but I'm with Anton, make the schedule fit you!

OMG if i didnt have to work my long stuff would def. be done during the week!!Especially cycling since schools are in session people are @ work the traffic is slow! So jealous of yu girl! I owe I owe so off to work i go until i die!!!:(

When I trained for IM, I did my long runs on Thursday afternoon/evenings - I'd leave work around 3 to start running by 3:30 at the latest. I'd do my long rides one day of the weekend so the other day I'd have to relax or do whatever else needed to be done. That worked best for me so I didn't have back to back long days. If I knew I'd be missing a long ride on the weekend, I was also able to ride into work (19.2 miles), ride at lunch (15-20 miles) and ride home (19.2 miles) so that at least gave me, at minimum 55 miles on a weekday. I don't have that luxury anymore (I now work 6 miles from home and can't get out for rides at lunch) but it worked well for IM training! Good luck

See, even IM vets like britt can second guess their feelings / wisdom about training.

Britt, You know your body best.
and now that you have a few races under your belt, er, somewhere, you have experience.

Your intuition is right on, like Beads said above, if it works for you, that's all that matters.

In bodybuilding / weight training days gone by, my w.o. partner and I used to be on a 3-day routine,
legs/back/chest. and since there are 7 days in a week it meant that each week we did legs on a different day than the previous week. Our muscles don't have a calendar (other things being equal).

The taper lets you adjust to race day being a Sunday, so, no conflict.

Many published Triathlon training schedules are organized on a Day 1, Day 2, etc. format. So without having asked Mark or Paula this question directly (I can't imagine actually posing this one, it's so obvious) I think that means it doesn't mnatter whether Day 4 is a Thursday or a Sunday in any given week. For example, Rest day follows a long run wherever that happens to fall on the calendar.

If you wanted to do a six-day rotation and have Long Day be different each week, so be it.

Co-ordinating a w/o with some one else might be a challenege, but if it was easy they'd call it football, right?

PoC

And btw: there are no stupid questions...even vets have something to learn!