the day after..? & off season training ???

Glad to hear that you are feeling good today.  I, however, feel like someone beat my legs with a baseball bat.  I'm going to take this week off and then start a winter maintenance plan (3 swims, 2 bikes, 4 runs, 3 days lifting).  Good luck with your training!

When is your next race? Work it backwards from there. My last race this year is Nov 1, and then a 1/2 mary in Jan. December I start the 100/100 (It's a running challenge on another forum), the goal is 100 runs in 100 days. I'll keep the biking up, probably 3x week.

I'm a former swimmer, so it doesn't take much to get back into swimming shape, I'll probably do 1x week swimming in the off season this year.

Spend a month or two doing a "focus" on your two weakest sports, and time it so that you can start your balanced workouts/rampup 3-4 (12-20 weeks) from your first race. Also, pick your A race for the season and plan your workouts to that point, that way you know if the sprint in the early season should be an A, B or C type of race.

John

So the A race is the one you want to invest the most in? 

I think I'm going to do a sprint in the beginning of July, an annual 1.2 mi OWS fundraiser at the end of July and the same sprint I just did in Sept.  I'd like to find a Oly too, I think.   I downloaded a half marathon training program with a lot of cross training days that spans 12 weeks, I thought if I doubled each week and stretched it out to 24 weeks, that would take me through the winter and put me in good place for an Oly.  I think I'd like to make next year's title 9 race my A race so that I can improve my time. Does that make sense or should my A race be the OLY since it's longer?

I've never been a winter runner before, so I'm not sure how that's going to work in New England (brrrr).