Purposeful Nothingness
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the offseason.
The fun part is that I’m taking it just as seriously as my mid-season peak training. After Timberman and then cramming in lots of run training for Ragnar, I was pretty beat up and worn out. During August and September, I was itching to race every single weekend. It is all I wanted to do: beat up my body and challenge the clock.
Now, things couldn’t be any more opposite. I barely have any motivation to work out, and I love it. I’m milking every single day of it. Normally my schedule outside of work is filled with lots of swimbikerun. Now it is filled with lots of yoga, napping, cooking (I’m testing out some new pie, cookie and soup recipes) pumpkin carving and spending some quality time around the house with Sam.
I was planning on doing some cyclocross racing this fall, but decided to save up my training mojo to hit the ground hard training for next year’s tri season. That will start back up again next month. Without ‘cross, the last time I was actually on my bike was to ride to the bar last Thursday night to hang out with my triathlon team. It was perfect and I had a blast cruising through Cambridge on my cyclocross bike at night and catching up with some great company.
Here are the pumkins that Sam and I carved last night.
So these are my goals for the offseason before I get back in to base training next month.
- Work out when I want to, never when I don’t
- Stretch, sleep and do yoga to stay rested, relaxed and loose
- Fully replenish my training mojo tank for 2010
- Maybe gain a few pounds (Sam has been complaining that I got too lean this season and I’m not as good to cuddle with.)
- Have fun playing outside doing things other than swimbikerun
What are your offseason plans? I wanna hear ‘em!
Category : Life, Training Log, Triathlon
Tags: offseason training
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Love the title. Can’t wait to join you there.
off season? what’s this? SoCal has no off season
those are some seriously cool pumpkins.
drink my face off and make out with as many boys as possible
I love it! Riding your bike to get drunk…that is such great off season work.
I’m going to be pretty lame here and say that my off season (starts after Clearwater) will be working on my swim. I am pretty jazzed about having more time to hit the pool and not worry about fitting in lots of long rides.
That and a 100 mile run race. Doesn’t quite sound like the off season, but it’s more about checking things off the “life list”, and well, that’s on there, so what can I say.
I want to hear more about your yoga expoloits through the off season, maybe with some photos!!