When to call it a season

So as you know how all sorts of professional sports have an off season of some sort,  and these occur at different times.  The cycling season more or less ends around late october ish, early november.  That is for those who don't race CX, which kinda just makes you keep on going year round if you do road/MTB/CX or some combination thereof.  Running is kinda something that you can just keep on doing year round as long as it's not insanely cold outside, I'm usually game for a run.  If you read about my awesome game of dodgeball you will know that I magically managed to cause myself excessive amounts of unneccessary hurt.  After that though everything just kinda hurt, quads, hammies, knee, hip flexors, arm, back pretty much EVERYTHING.  So then I thought maybe I should take a break. So it's kinda worked out that way, exam break means lots of time devoted to studying and as a result, not a whole lot of working out.

I can't believe it's already been a year since I plotted out my entire marathon training schedule.  So after doing two marathons, attempting to fit in a whole bunch of biking, and then starting to get reacquainted with the pool, it's honestly just left me drained.  Especially the pool part, I swim as awesome as a lead anvil, just saying.  The other thing is not only am I physically tired, I'm just tired (although that may be more so because of just not sleeping enough).  So if you've gone a decent chunk of time without actually taking serious time off, regardless of what sport you do, it's probably not a bad idea to rest up a bit, enjoy the festive season, eat lots be merry.  Did you know that there is healthier egg nog which has 50% less fat than normal eggnogg? I didn't but I will get some tommorow and let you know how it tastes.

So here's to taking a week (or two, or maybe even three) to rest up, let your body heal, and hit 2011 again and hey who knows you probably have lost less than you thought you would, but your body will be ready to start training again (I'm looking at you Lisa).

Good luck on exams for those of you in Uni, I can't wait to be done

~Cheers