QOTD: How do you balance running and real life (job, family, relationships, financial, and other things)?
It's certainly a lot and not easy. My only daughter is 5 which makes it easier as she is somewhat self sufficient. And if I'm biking it's easy for her to come down, get me, and I can take a tiny break to help her with something.
My weekday schedule is:
4:30am - Wake up
4:50am - 80 Day Obsession with wife
5:50am - Shower
6:20am - Make eggs/oatmeal
7:00am - Leave for work
5:00pm - Arrive home from work
5:15pm - Start cycling or running workout. Usually 60-90 minutes.
6:45pm - Finish workout and stretch
7:00pm - Make lunch for the following day. Depending on wife's schedule, I may have to make dinner. Also, on Monday's 75% of the time I have to drive back to Madison (60 min round trip) and pick up my wife from work.
7:15pm - Eat dinner.
7:30-8:30pm - Play with G.
8:30pm - Go to bed
On the weekends:
4:30am or 7:30am - Wake up. Depends on whether Steph has to work. If she works, I have to get all running finished before she needs to leave.
Usually till 10-11am - Working out.
11am - Eat breakfast
Most of day - Play with G.
2pm - Eat lunch
6pm - Eat dinner
8:30pm - Go to bed.
This gets me about 14-16 hours of exercise a week. So during the week, there's little extra time in my day. During the weekend, I try and get most everything done before 11am, or before G wakes up depending on my wife's schedule.
My job is fairly flexible. I get plenty of vacation and personal holidays. So last Summer/Fall I took off days where training was going to exceed 90 min on a weekday. This coming Summer/Fall, I've got a 9 Thursday workouts in the 2-3.5 hour range. So I'm likely to take those days off from work. Additionally, I've got 8 more in the 90-120 min range that I'll just wake up at 3:30am-4:30am to do in the morning.
My family is super supportive and has been consistently for the 7 years I've been doing this (only recently as the duration gotten this high). I do a good job of knowing all the schedules and trying to accomodate others before myself. So I usually ask my wife what time I need to be done by, and then I just adjust my schedule to that.