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[Posting on behalf of /u/Percinho who is busy trying on his new tri suit that he got on Black Friday sale]
I have kind of fallen into doing summer and winter as maintenance. I think my racing days are kind of over though so there’s that. I have tried to stick with running hard during the summer but the 100+ temps just kill me (literally sometimes). During the winter there is snow and ice on the ground (we got 8" of snow this past Sat) so that is not the best time to be working hard either. I’m re-thinking what I’m doing and I think I will be spending the summer/winter in the gym doing strength work. Running is gonna get dialed down to 3-4x a week. Probably no more than 4 miles or so during the week and no more than 8-10 miles on the weekend.