Ligety will spend the offseason hanging out with friends, taking part in other sports such as mountain biking and keeping track of the progress of his favorite basketball team -- the Utah Jazz.
"The Google crisis response team has assembled a Hurricane Sandy map to help you track the storm's progress and provide updated emergency information, " wrote Google software engineer Ka-Ping Yee on the firm's blog.
The UCSF team "really keeps me on track, " he adds, and knowing they will be checking his progress helps give him the motivation to stick to his regimen.