End of season and bummed out

Go race a few Du's.  Run an ultra.  Do some long tours or ultra centuries.  Have fun!

Fall and winter is running season. Pick a marathon perhaps

1. Schedule a trip to an Olympic in the South.  We have the Toyota US Open in Dallas on 10/7.
2. Schedule a HIM in the Spring.  Mine is Galveston (Texas HIM).

Editing - the Toyota is on 10-7.

My adrenaline is still frantically pumping for my last tri race (and first Oly race) in 3 weeks, so I haven't hit your stage, well not yet anyway!

The only viable solution I can think of: Hit the southern hemisphere during their tri summer.  Of course, you'll need plenty of money and be able to take time off work, but that's the only obvious solution

I really work on technique, speed and form in my off season, as the Arizona winter becomes my serious training season, as the summers are always so damned hot!  I'm really going to work on my running: 5k and 10k events and maybe, just maybe, even consider a half mary sometime in my future!!!! That is, of course, if I can remain injury-free in my running this year  

I'm the opposite.  I raced a lot in the last 3 years...and I'm ready for a break.  I still look forward to training...probably at a volume that's close to what I would be training if I were focusing on a race...but just without the structure and pressures of meeting goals.  I just want to spend the next several months swimming, biking, and running.

Bummer.  Best part of the year coming up for me.  I have a Sprint in 2 weeks, HIM end of September and a full IM the first of November.  Then a lot of cool running races throughout the winter.

Love living in the South!

Duane

For me, winter in Florida means off road cycling :-)

Bye bye bugs!!!

Oh.. and last year I did the "Tough Mudder" in December. I will NEVER do that race again. 

I finished though.. got shocked 3 times.

there is a tough mudder in Minneapolis in the spring that I may be doing.  Of course it's not until May.

I'm signing up for a "winter triathlon" in March in Brookings South Dakota (yeh, it's frickin cold in Brookings in March).  Then the regular tri circuit for me starts.  I would love to register for an IM, but the thought of all the needed training and my wife home with 3 naughty boys seems insurmountable.

Probably stick to mostly sprints, oly's and one big HIM in August or September again.  Maybe 2014 IM Arizona.  God, that's 26 months away from now!!!

I like the idea of calling this down time the "preseason" vs the post season!!

X2...the local (for me) cyclocross races start on Sunday!

Move to Florida... our Tri season is 10 of 12 months

Do some duathlons.  My last one was going to be the Atlantic City Tri in two weeks.  But my portion is only the swim, so I'm squeezing one in this coming weekend.

To keep me honest, I'm going to do a couple du's and maybe some 10Ks in the colder weather.

Did my last triathlon of the year last Saturday.  Looking forward to starting my training program to get ready for the  Sarasota half marathon in March.

Also looking forward to some high volume training on the bike and in the pool.  That plus adding some more gym sessions back into my schedule.

I also plan on using the off season to lose some more weight; I find that hard to do during my race season.  I lost 18 pounds last year during the winter then maintained that over the summer.  I hope to lose at least another 15 this year.

Mark

But um.. unless you work in the healthcare field... be prepared for unemployment..