I could get used to this...

The off-season hasn't been so bad. Not bad at all, actually.

I have been enjoying myself quite a bit over the last few weeks.

(As long as we pretend that my leg is healing up nicely

with all the treatment and care that I have been giving it.

Note:

Please do not ask me how my leg is doing.

Unless you want me to become extremely frustrated!

Thank you. )

It seems like it always takes me a couple of weeks to calm down after racing season. Once I do, I can (almost) see why some people choose not to spend half their day training. It certainly helps that Karl went out of town for 10 days this month. Nothing like a bit of forced rest!

Here is what one of my days looked like:

swim

massage

nap

bike to school to pick up Max

(leave key to his bike lock at home)

walk home with Max

grocery shopping

walk to school to pick up Noah

play at the tree park

enjoy the beautiful fall weather

bike home

eat dinner as a family

play a game together

You can see why I titled this post: I could get used to this...

Doesn't this sound like a pretty good and balanced mid-week day?

My favorite part about the off-season:

I don't feel completely exhausted

all of the time!

There are plenty of afternoons during the season

when I honestly don't know how I am going
to make it until bedtime.

Everything, and I mean every little thing,
seems like more than I can handle.

I don't have energy for anything but the actual training.

I try hard to still be the active and fun mom that I want to be

but it's hard!

This doesn't mean
that I have actually been getting any of the many things

on my off-season list of things-to-do done.

I mean: I am supposed to be taking a break, right?

So how could I possible clean the kitchen
if I am supposed to take it easy?

Or clean out the kids' closet?

I don't think so.

I'd rather be saving my energy!

The list is going to have to wait until base training.

Base training starts November 1st.

Wait! That's tomorrow!

Maybe it's time I log back into Training Peaksand see if there is a nice little schedule waiting for me!

The running column may or may not still be emptybut there is plenty of fun to be had in the pool and on the bike! I am trying to convince Coach M to put some chores on there as well. Because in that case maybe, just maybe, they would actually get done!

I am pretty sure that spectating Ironman Arizona in 2 weeks and helping out at the TriSports.com aid station on the run is going to have me fired up to get back into shape! I can hardly wait to see my friends, including Coachie, smash themselves!

Happy Autumn!

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