Off Season

After Kerrville, I shut things down completely for about 8-10 days.  I'm not getting workouts from Jeff right now and I'm doing some maintenance type stuff.  Pretty much what I want to do when I want to do it.  I don't worry about times or speed or anything else.  I'm still putting in base miles for everything.  We have lost the sun for the majority of the day so I'm only really riding on Saturday mornings.  I'm still getting in about 20 miles of running and swimming two or three mornings a week.  I would like to get more strength work in during the off season.  I only have one race on my schedule for 2014 and that is Ironman Boulder which I try not to think a whole lot about because the thought of it is still a little scary.  Jeff says we won't start worrying about that until late February.  I was really tired after Kerrville so it is good to have a little worry free down time.  My wife is running a 10k and half marathon so I will go to those and support her.  The Tri Series banquet is on the 22nd and we will head to Austin one more time for that.  It is a busy month for the family.  My son is a high school senior so we have colleges to visit and Thanksgiving is coming.  I will check in every so often but really don't plan on tracking anything again until 2014.