I'll keep running about the same. I'll probably back off the long run and spread my mileage out a bit. More weightlifting, less speedwork. But sometimes if the roads are bad I'll head to the track and do speedwork. Its hard to get my mid-long runs in during the week in the dead of winter so I probably will have a lot more 6-7's and a lot less 3's or 10's I'm a lot less structured in the winter. If weather is good I go farther, if weather is bad I might X train or do track work. First race of the year for me is always the first weekend in January, so not easing up too much.

This winter I will just aim to maintain base mileage. I did that last year and it paid off with a HM PR in April. I used to always cut back in the winter. No more.

Finally I will be able to build up a decent base. Summer weighs heavily on me. The other night I went for a night time run and went late because of the heat. Was about 77 at the end of my run at 11:30pm. Luckily I live in Southern California and except for the occasional rain winter weather is much better than summer weather in my opinion. I would perfer to run in a cool rain than in the heat. By winter I will run for about a year and should have lost around 50 pounds. Maybe I will finnally able to throw down some weeks that actually look like a real runners.

Build MAFF base by not racing this winter.