Well the off season is a great break from training and racing, but the reality is that those of us with jobs in the real world end up staying almost as busy as we were in the main part of the season. Now is the time to get caught up on stuff that was put off because I was too busy riding on the weekends to do them earlier in the year. First on the list is fixing up our 2000 Rodeo so we can get another 10 years out of it. The cool thing with commuting to work half of the time, and using our other car for all our trips, is that I put less than 5,000 miles on it per year.
Working is the main thing taking up some extra energy the last few weeks. My racing wound down just in time for things to get really busy at work... The non-profit fundraising world is seasonal and for 3/4 of the year works pretty well around the race season. The busy time for fundraising events is the late spring (the 1/4 that's not so great for racing trips) and in the fall.
This week I finally took a full week completely off the bike and didn't feel too worthless because of it. Over the weekend I actually enjoyed sitting on the couch while thinking about all the cross racers out there about to take off on another hour of discomfort. Let the good times begin!
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