Switching (training) gears

[katinthehat]

bye bye tri season!  hello off (?) season where I'm not really sure what I want to do!

I took last week totally off and it actually felt like an off week, which is a miracle.

This week I'm starting a 12 week lifting program focusing on hips and glutes.  I'm also cutting back on swimming and cycling while starting to increase my running base mileage.

For the first time since I started working out after Eliza was born (three years ago now) I don't have a goal race that I'm training for or working towards.  I have several fun races planned but they aren't something I'm actively training towards.  In the past, if I didn't have a race to train for, I just stopped working out.  For the past ten years, it's been find a race, train, find another race, train, or, not find a race and resort to my former slothful habits.  So this feels really weird but it's a big step forward in my "this is a lifestyle not a quick fix" thought process.

[sadlebred]

Good for you! Sounds like you have your head wrapped around the lifestyle thing now!