Who's already planning for 2020

I took the month of October as my tradition month off from training.  During that time I always start to gather training plans for the upcoming year and look at race plans for the upcoming year.   I have two tentative races at the moment.  Lots of races have price increased on January first so I typically finalize my race plan the last week of December.  Some years my first choice in races has been sold out by December 31st so you know there are plenty of people planning now.   Lots of the local Sprint races won't have event information for next year up yet.  Especially the late summer/fall races so I search what raced were held in the current year and assume they will be held about the same week the following year.  Two years ago one of my races I was planning on doing didn't happen and two of the races I have wanted to do have changed when they do the race (one moved 2 weeks earlier and one 2 months later), but it is easier to plan things early and make adjustments than to wait until the overworked volunteer race director finally get information up 6 weeks before the race.

I am considering a 15K in February and want to do some Olympic and 70.3 races next year.  The Olympic and 70.3 are all I did in triathlon for the first 4 years.  This year I did 4 sprints and loved them so I will be open to jumping on board any local Sprint that I find too.     

I had originally planned to take another month or so "off" from training, but then I put in my annual training plan into Training Peaks and it told me to get my fat butt on the bike now. 

I've planned out pretty much everything for 2020 - a bunch of bike races and at least one tri at the end of the season.