Off-season Opens Doors
Mens sana in corpore sano (A healthy mind in a healthy body) If you are like me, you spend so much time training in the spring and summer that when off-season arrives you don’t know what to do with those hours that are normally filled with sport. Especially on the weekends. Now you can have breakfast with the family… twice! Although, I’m sure for most of us it doesn’t take much effort to find substitute activities… Cleaning out the garage? Organizing a year full of photos? Going to church? St. Laurentius Catholic Church, Alteglofsheim Church on Sunday is unfortunately one of the things that gets sacrificed from my calendar when I am in training, as there is almost always a long run on that day. But I miss it. And today I was back in the pews. What is the purpose of off-season anyway? Why don’t we just race and train 12 months a year? As everyone knows the answer is simple: to give ourselves a chance to recover and regenerate. Our bodies have been pounding the ...