The end of the season
In the Bible they say that for everything there is a season. In Michigan the cold has arrived and the triathlon season is officially over. This weekend is the Detroit Free Press Marathon which will be my last race for a while. I’ve been injured all summer with my Achilles tendon, so it will feel good to take a break. My goal for the off-season is to take good, if not better, care of myself. I’d like to maintain a healthy diet and stay consistent with my conditioning. Actually, I’d love build a very strong base while recovering. I suppose this time of year is always when you look back at what was and what could have been; the successes and failures, the right and wrong calls, the opportunities gained and lost. I know I curse this injury which grossly limited my training. The only positive I can surmise is my learning to do more with less. Decisions about how much, when, and how to train mattered more than ever. I learned a lot, yet with restrictions and limitations comes an insurmountable ceiling only proper healing can lift.
