I have completed all of my planed events this year. My training plan is completed by today.
Still has 2 months left this year. What should I do now on?
Any suggestions?
Go play bikes. Go ride the rides that don’t fit into a training plan, or would blow up your training plan. That’s what I’m doing for the next 2-3 months. Maybe some “Train Now” during the week, but nothing structured for me until after the Holidays.
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Ride for…fun?
This is actually what I’m doing now that my big events are done. Not worrying about power or intervals or anything. Just ride until November-ish. Remind myself why I like bikes so much in the first place. Can’t speak for everyone, especially here, but I didn’t fall in love with racing, I fell in love with being out on a bike.
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I was in that exact situation two weeks ago. Finished my A event, a 7 day stage race, which I trained many months for. Got sick, took 3-4 days off. Decided against racing cross, or at least training for it. Instead, switched over to riding bikes for fun. Did some indoors virtual climbs. Did an outdoor mock TTT. A leg ripping group ride. And some mixed gravel/single track/road on my cross bike.
It was a long summer, and while I did a lot of fun rides, it was almost all training focused. Now it’s time to enjoy myself!
Side note - last year I made a “mistake” of cutting down my riding probably to an average if 2-3hrs/ week for 6 weeks, due to cross season, burnout, travel and vacation. It cost me a fair bit of fitness and it took longer to come back. The motivation is still there this year, so I’m hoping I’ll keep riding straight into the training block of Nov/Dec.
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As above, go ride your bike for fun for a while. You can’t maintain peak fitness year round. That route leads to ruin, and likely injury and burnout.
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Maybe give the fascat 10 week lifting programme a look, started today, good mix of gym work, muscle tension intervals and zone 2.
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Go try the new Plan Builder for the remainder of the year 
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