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I'd say predominantly marathon training some swim and the odd ride as swapping a ride for an extra run at marathon training distances will make any half tri training plan alot harder than you think it will. As duncs said keep swimming it won't take much out of your run. Low intensity technique focused swims can actually be nice recovery for your legs. If your an OK cyclist anyway after recovering from the marathon 6-8 weeks with plenty of tempo should be enough to bring your cycling legs up a bit if your time frame is that short and you've kept your cycling ticking over and your running fitness will in a good place anyway. As said a later tri would be best after a couple of weeks recovery doing the last 10-12 weeks of a half iron plan should work. Better than trying to find a shorter half iron plan because you'll be coming in with a good level of fitness already and most plans start with a month of low intensity endurance training which you'll already have
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Yeah I was thinking along the same lines as I’m an ok cyclists anyway but…
My main issue is that the half’s I’ve been looking at are around June, maybe July. With the London Marathon being the end of April I would most likely be tapering / recovering from the marathon when I should be peaking the cycling / tri training.
I agree a Aug / Sep Tri would be ideal but wanted the Half Tri to be Juneish because if i liked it and did ok, i may be mad enough to book a place to do a full Ironman the for the following June while tickets are available.
So, I ideally I want some grown up to tell me I’m being stupid or how to do it.
Should it be predominantly marathon training with some swim and the odd ride or should it be half tri training, drop a ride for an extra run and do a marathon run training distances in those run slots.