This is my first year doing multisports and it is wrapping up pretty soon. Been running almost a year, swimming 4 months, and biking about 6 months. Half-Mary of 1:33:xx and usually average around 20 mph on the bike in sprint distances, if that information helps. I live in the Northeast so the weather will begin to get miserable within a couple months. I am wondering how most people approach their off-season. Obviously address the weakpoints, but should I do less run, bike, swim? When I played other sports, I saw the offseason as a time to practice that sport even more so this is my mentality going into the “off-season”. Just interested to see what people do and their goals are.
Take at least some period of time and unplug a bit. This is as much of a mental thing as it is a physical. Then it’s definitely time to plan out what you want out of next season
What are your goals for next season. Half IM’s , full , oly’s or sprints ?
I would like to race as much as possible but have my eyes set on Syracuse HIM (June 24) and Musselman HIM (Mid July). After that, a few duathlons, sprints, and olympics thrown in. Would also like to get my 5k close to 19:00, 10k to 40:00. My swimming sucks but I’m ok with being a bad swimmer so I’m willing to focus mainly on running and biking. I dont have the confidence on the bike right now. I love to ride but I’m just not very fast and definitely lack fitness on the bike. Got a cycleops mag+ trainer for the winter.
I’m willing to put in alot of miles on the bike and run but dont want to do it if it’s just for the sake of mileage and not actual progress. My thoughts would be just to go out 6 days a week and push it the envelope until I no longer can, but not quite sure how beneficial that would be.
I would focus on my base in the off season in both bike and run. Get more specific training towards races in the spring depending on their dates. it would not hurt to do some intervals or hard fast training every now and then to keep things interesting
Do some different things that interest you. Try yoga or something along that line. Lift weights and try to increase strength. A bike trainer can certainly help to maintain base, do drills and interval work. As boring as it is, it does pay dividens.