Depends how many office appointments I've got for the day. It can be quite variable. Some days I'm busy and other days I can hang around the forum.

Today or in general? Allow me to enter rant mode.

Today: (as of 12:00 am)

2:00 am. Bed

6:30 am. Wakeup, bfast, clothing, make lunch etc.

7:00 am. Study

8:00 am. Lab and classes

12:00 pm. Lunch study and complain about schedule

1:00 pm Classes

5:30 pm Mini Break

6:00 pm Classes

8:00 pm Dinner

8:30 pm Lab for classwork



No swimming this morning. HW takes precedence always.

~D

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The question of who is right and who is wrong has seemed to me always too small to be worth a moment's thought, while the question of what is right and what is wrong has seemed all-important.

-Albert J. Nock

Up @ 0530

Shower, dress, pack food for the day

Out the door @ 0600

Start work @ 0630

0900 snack

1100 lunch

1400 snack

1500 leave work

1530-1630 or 1700 work out

1800 dinner

2000 snack

2130 bed

rinse and repeat!!

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Obviously it can vary...but this is typical:

7am - Wake Up
8am - Be at work (breakfast)
11:30am - Workout
1:00pm - Back to work (lunch)
5:00pm - Go home
5:15pm - dinner, do stuff around the house, hang out with wife and 2 kids
8:30pm - Hopefully get my 2 yr. old to bed
9:00pm - No really, get my 2 yr. old to bed
9:00pm-11:00pm - Read, play computer games, play board games, make lunch for tomorrow, pack workout clothes
11pm - Bed

Man...I'm boring.

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7am wake (Sh*t, shower, shave)
8am walk to work. (downstairs to home office)
11:30 - 2 hrs for swim, bike, or run workout
1:30 back to home office
4:00 Kids home. Play w/ kids
6:00 2 hours for evening workouts
9:00 to 11:00pm - Laptop open in front of TV catching up on work, etc.

Love it. Hope this job lasts forever.

0600 Wake Up

0615 - 0800 Morning Workout session

0830 - 1130 Work

1130-1330 Afternoon workout session as required

1330 - 1700 Work (Lunch at my desk)

1800-2100 Home/Family Time

2130 Bed

best,

eric

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Everything changes, everything is connected; pay attention. -- Buddhism in 7 words

5:00 Up, swim or gym

7:00 breakfast, read papers

9:00 Ride or Run

12:00 shower change

1:00 at work, write radio news update

2:30 News editorial meeting

3:30 Write for 6p show, tag spots do a little editing

6:30 Shoot news talent doing snappy standups

7:00-11:00 Write for show edit promos, badger reporters and techs

In bed by midnight.

During max training time, which was this past summer:

Up at 5:30am and training before 6am
Finish training around 7:30am and have a quick shower.
Feed daughter while wife trains for an hour
Leave house at 8:30am and go surfing/bodyboarding until 10am
Get to work at 10:15am and work until around 6pm (wife and I own a bodyboarding retail website)
Home for dinner with wife and daughter
Put daughter to bed at 8pm and watch TV/surf the net until 10 or 11pm
Repeat.

Now, in the off season, workouts are a smaller, so up at 6:30am for a one-hour workout before all of the above.

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Today will be a pretty typical day:

4:55: alarm goes off - I go and get my wife, who's sleeping with our three year old since the middle of the night, so she can come back to our bed to be with the one year old.

5:45: on the trainer - back-to-back Spinervals - Big Gear Strength, followed by Bending Crank Arms

7:40: in shower

8:10: leave house

8:30: arrive at work (CT/MRI technologist at private medical office)

12:00: go to gym for chest/back/core workout (45 minutes)

1:05: back at work

4:30: leave work

4:45: stop to pick-up dinner supplies

5:00: arrive home, greet children/wife

5:05: prep/cook dinner while my wife exercises

6:15: eat dinner (tonight is braised chicken with tomatoes and olives over cous-cous or pasta - haven't decided yet)

7:00: handle bath-time with kids while my wife cleans up dinner mess

7:30: playtime with kids, while straightening-up, doing laundry, etc.

9:00: story time w/ kids

9:30: lights-out

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Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

M & F are 4:00 a.m. wake up call to be at the center to teach 5:45 class.

T is 5:00 a.m. wake up call to be at 7:00 a.m. business partner meeting.

daily schedules vary with appointments and all...some days the office appointments begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 2:00 p.m., others begin at 8:00 a.m. and end at 9:00 p.m. others i schedule no appointments for recapture/recovery time.

normal training schedule is minimum 90 minutes daily.

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www.jimmishler.com
"Jim, I happen to agree with you" DougStern

Watch an episode or two of Supernanny. She'll tell you how to cure the kids of sleeping in mommy and daddys' bed!

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My business-eBodyboarding.com

Today =
0530 - up
0540 - ride to pool
0600-0730 - 6km swim
0745-1730 - work
1800 - 10km run and drills
1930 - eat
2000 - 2145 - chill/core work/play guitar/admin/pack bag for tomorrow
2145 - read/update training diary/listen to music
2215 - lights out
2300-ish - sleep...hopefully

Pretty much the same during the week unless I'm away for business. BTW, 29 & single.

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"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

5:00am - wake up to g/f's alarm.

7:00am - wake up my alarm.

8:30am - get to work.

1:00 (some days) - masters swim.

4:30pm - leave work.

Workout times vary from 5:45pm to 10:30pm, depending on the day and discipline/specific workout. I like to swim late, for some reason. Thursdays are my day off from training.

9pm to 11pm - bed.

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"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." -- Bertrand Russell

So far today:

5:30-6 AM - Wake up, eat small breakfast, hydrate

6:00 - 6:37 AM - Run 5 miles

6:45 AM - Eat larger breakfast, shower, get dressed, putter around

7:30 AM - Go to work

8:00 - 11:30 AM - Pretend to be working while slacking off on the internet

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Lunch break

12:30 PM - Present - Resume slacking off

Thanks, but no cure needed. Having your one-year old little girl stir in the middle of the night, reach out to hold your arm, and then settle back to sleep is far from a disease...

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Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
- Albert Einstein

here's today, and most days are similar with different workouts

Up at 5:45 or 6
6-7:30 - swim
7:30-8:45 - shower, eat, check email, news, etc.
9-5:30 - work, check ST forums (usually eat lunch while I work)
6 - team swim (if team workout is at 8 Ill run before)
7:30 - team dinner (though typically Id run afterwards)
8:30-10:30 - miscellany (dinner if I ran, watch TV, etc.)
10:30 - asleep

Tom, I think you need to post your day too.

Mine:

5:03 Wake up

5:10 Let horses out, feed dogs, make sure sheep are ok

6:00 Workout: Swim or Run or Weights or combo

7:00 Shower

7:30 Work

12:00 Mid-day work out (swim or run) or not

3:30 to 4:00 Leave

4:15 Home

5:00 Run or Bike

6:30 Dinner and relax

10:00 Bed

Understood. If it works for you, that's terrific!

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wow, we're all very similar especially in that we never have time for rest. Amazing- no down time. I guess I like it that way but it makes for a lot of busy days in rapid succession.

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The Tri Shop.com

Yeah Tom, did you just post this to prove the point that everyone likes to talk about themselves, or do you have a real curiosity? Ha, ha. What's YOUR day like in the charmed life of the infamous Tom Demerly?

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My business-eBodyboarding.com

Generally inport:

0515 - Throw alarm clock across room

0540 - Leave house showered, shaved, dressed, fed and informed about important world events by ESPN

0600 - Arrive at the gates of Hell (cross the brow at my ship)

0600-0700 - Catch up on message traffic and tasking from overnight e-mails and phone calls

0700-1130 - Work, meetings, drills, trainign, etc

1130-1230 - Lunch

1230-1300 - Close my eyes to keep the voices in my head down a little

1300-1900 - Work, meetings, training, drills, etc

1900 - Leave Hell enroute to home

1930 - Eat

2000 - Finish work that I brought home with me, do housework like laundry, painting, etc (spend a little time here and there answering posts on ST)

2230 - Pick up alarm clock from floor and collapse onto the bed



You don't even want to know my routine when the ship is underway

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Slowguy

(insert pithy phrase here...)

You swim 6km in 1h30mins????

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Good athletes train when they want to, great athletes train when they don't......

I started to put my schedule down but it was way to wordy. Quick summary:

Summer- Work 30 hours/week (spread over 6 days with some "split shifts in there") Typical workday starts at 9 am; training 15-20 hours per week (peak of 25 hours for IMF)

Fall/Winter/Spring- No less than 50 hours per week and many weeks well over 60 at work. Typical workday starts at 6 am typically done between 5pm and 8 pm some days with a mid-day break to workout. Last year training for Ironman Arizona I averaged 8 hours training per week. I hope to work less and train more this year.

Right now I am in the calm before the storm.

right now (training for Thanksgiving 10M followed a week later by a trail marathon):

M - 515a masters, carpool kid to HS, work, 630p Bikram Yoga

Tu - 545a alternate: 1600m intervals/1hr easy bike, carpool kid to HS, work, 5p take 9yo to swimming & run 6-7.5M easy during his practice, 830p masters

W - 545a 1hr easy ride, work, lift upper body & core at lunch, home by 630-7p to help w/ homework

Th - 520a 10M hill day run w/ hard tempo 4.4M section (best w/o of the week w/ a bunch of 20something sub3 runners), carpool kid to hs, work, 630p pick up 9yo from swimming, 7p watch Survivor, 830p masters

F - 545a 1hr easy ride, work, lift lower body & core at lunch, 8p pick up 9yo from swimming, home to hang out

Sa - 530a alternate: 18-22M trail run/10-14M with a short race (5M/10K) in the middle, take or pick up kids from swimming and rowing, sometime in the afternoon hit the pool for 45-75mins

Su - 7a 65-75M group ride (sometimes missed to attend swim meets or regattas, go camping&fishing, etc.)

* been hitting 10-12 of those planned w/o per week, about 12-14hrs

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47weeks to IM Wisconsin

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kangaroo -- please do not read or respond to any of my posts

After reading these posts, I've decided I need a new job. I think I saw 2, maybe 3, people that look like they have to work a 40 hour week. And some of these seem to be able to take a 2 hour lunch as part of their 40 hours?? Sheesh! My job sucks!

My day:

5:00 - 6:30 Workout, 6:30 - 7:00 get ready for work, 7:00 - 7:30 drive to work, 7:30 - 5:30 or 6:00 work, get home at 6:30 and eat, play with kids, and get to bed.

Today - slept in with my G/F till 8.30
8.45 boot it home, shower, eat, prepare lunch, snacks
9.30 -10.30 class
10.30-5.30 Lab work/slack off waiting for experiments to work so i just read ST, and surf
6-8 pm - swim team
8.15 pm - dinner
9 pm - maybe to some studying, probably watch lost..
10-11 pm -sleep

this summer was abit more rigourus..
5.30 up
6-7 am - swim
8 am - at lab
work till 4
4-6 ride/run
6.30 eat
7-sleep - watch T.V, read, hang out with the G/F


- generally I can get in two decent workouts if i can find time for a 1/2 hour nap during the day - but I definatly take down time - i have to if I want to be alert in the lab/school/studying, and then do decently well working out

Yesterday would be a typical masters practice day for me. Other days just eliminate the masters practice and i go to bed earlier.

4.45am - wake up

5am - 8k run

5.45am - feed and wlak dog

6.15am - S/S/S

6.45am - leave for work (drive to train station...50mins on train)

7.45am to 5pm - work (obvious ST/lunch breaks)

5pm - 6.20pm - travel home

6.20pm - feed dog/go for a wlak with wife, daughter and dog

7pm - give daughter her bath/help put her down for night

8pm - dinner

9pm-10.30pm - masters practice

11pm - bed

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Good athletes train when they want to, great athletes train when they don't......

4:30 - alarm goes and I rollout. Wake up daughter.

4:50 - dogs have been out and back in. We head to pool.

5:00 - swim with the age groupers, or run.

6:15 - hot shower & shave at nearby Y as they have only cold water at the pool.

6:35 - fetch fresh bagels to complete breakfast.

6:45 - pickup daughter & head to her highschool, she eats breakfast in the car.

7:10 - head to work

7:30 - 4:30 work with a break for lunch.

5:00 - Home - make sure daughters are home, figure out dinner, go for a runner or spin.

7:00 - Dinner, dishes and related chores.

8:00 - Read mail, check homework start getting ready for the next day.

9:30 - 10:00 Get to bed.

6:13 1st alarm

6:15 2nd alarm, get up and wake wife and daughter up, shower and get ready for work.

7:15 Take son to school and head to office

8:15 arrive at office.

8:15 - 11:00 sit at desk and make a few calls in between surfing the net and emailing friends. I'm an inside sales rep for a software company.

11:00 - 1:00 bike/run/lunch

1:00 - 4:55 Same as 8:15 - 11:00

5:30 Arrive home and change into casual clothes, make sure kids homework is complete. Throw ball with my son or short mtn bike ride with him until darkness forces us inside, around 6:45 this time of year. Will probably go out for Mexican dinner tonight.

Man, I've been really bored and pretty sick of this job but when I write it down like this it doesn't sound so bad. I mean it is boring but I seldom think about all the free time I have compared to others. I pretty much do the above every day and my income is average maybe a bit above. Thanks Tom, I'm going to try and appreciate it more.

4:00am wake

4:20 - 6:30 - Workout

7:00 - 8:00 - drive to work

8:00 - 5:00 hang out on slowtwitch.

5:00-6:00 drive home

6:00-8:00 hang out with the kids put them to bed.

8:00-9:30 hang out with the wife

10:00 bed.

Today:

5.00 wake and snack

5.30 - 7.00 - ride

7.00 - 7.30 - core flex

7.30 - 8.15 breakfast, shower, pack lunch

8.30 - 9.00 - catch train

9.00 - 4.45 - work

4.45 - 5.30 - catch train

5.30 - 6.30 - down time

6.30 - 7.30 - pm workout (run/core)

7.30 - 8.00 dinner

8 - 10 - free time

10 >>> lights out!

Fun fun fun!!!

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per ardua ad astra

My weekdays:

- Wake up (M 4am; Tues, Thurs, Fri 4:45am; Wed 5:30am)
- Eat breakfast #1 (small on MTRF, BIG on W)
- Morning workout (M ride 2hrs/ Tues, Thurs, Fri swim 1.5hr)
- Shower.
- Get K up on M, W feed her, dress her.
- Get to work, either dropping K off or not.
- Eat breakfast #2 (opposite size as #1)
- Work like a dog
- Snack #1
- Lunchtime workout (MTWR)
- Shower
- Lunch/Pub lunch with Sick Bastards Lunch Club on Fridays ;-)
- Work like a dog
- Snack #2
- Leave work at 4:30ish, pick up K, go home and play, start dinner
- Dinner (between 6-7pm)
- Bathe K
- Put K to bed (around 8pm)
- Relax or ride trainer
- Bed by 9ish unless riding trainer, in which case shower, snack, then bed by 10:30.

Ugh. Makes me sick to look at.

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"How bad could it be?" - SimpleS

I agree with the previous poster. How some people workout at lunch and then several hours after work is beyond me. How do they make a living? I think maybe we should start a thread on what occupations are conducive to the active lifestyle. Inquiring minds want to know!

My schedule:

5am Wake up, shower shave 6am leave house, 7:30 arrive at work (yeah, I know, a horrible commute in Chicago), work all day usually eat lunch at desk, 4:30 leave work, 6:15-30 arrive at home, look at mail, pack bag for gym 7 pm go to gym/run outside/shower 8:30 - 9 dinner/family time 9:30 dishes, get ready for next day 10:30 bed

"no down time??" don't you post to this forum roughly 8,000 times a day?

3:15 - 3:30 hrs/day commuting! 16-17hrs/week!!!

4 choices:

1-move in near work

2-get a new job in the burbs

3-get the hell out of chicago

4-give up training

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0430 - alarm
0500 - out for 45 minute run
0600 - shower etc.
0700 - sitter arrives
0715 - 1630 - at work
1700 - 2000 - be a dad/husband etc. etc.
2030 - 2200 - @ gym three days a week - row/lift/swim
2300 - bed

I love it...

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Sponsored by: TBA

"I think maybe we should start a thread on what occupations are conducive to the active lifestyle. Inquiring minds want to know!"

The best set up is when you can truely work from home. It's the commuting that is a killer. I did this for a number of years back in the early 90's and no suprise it was the 5 best years of triathlon racing that I ever had. I could get in 2, even 3 workouts a day( AM, lunch,PM) still get in a full 8 -9 hour work day and have a real life. However, if commuting is taking up 2 hours of your day, then that really must make it challenging.

Fleck

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Steve Fleck @stevefleck | Blog

Typical weekday when my wife works (3 out of 5 days):

Wake up tired at 6:20 a.m.

Shower/dress

Get kids (ages 3 and 5) up, dressed, breakfast

Get son to bus stop by 7:40 a.m.

Leave for work ~ 7:50

Work 8:45 - 5:15. Hopefully go to YMCA or run at lunch time

Drive home

Play with kids while wife makes dinner

Dinner (~6:30-7:00)

Help clean up from dinner / Play with kids until 8 p.m.

Bath time for kids / read books to kids / help get them down

Help pick up house, etc. until about 9 p.m.

Watch some TV from 9-10 or so, maybe some internet from 10-10:30, do bills as needed, maybe read until 11 or so.

Go to sleep

On weekdays when my wife doesn't work, we try and take turns working out for about 50 minutes each in the morning while the other gets kids ready/showers.

Saturday mornings we like to each exercise 1-2 hours, usually her first then me. This gets curtailed when I'm coaching my son's soccer or whatever. Will try and go Sunday morning instead, while my wife brings the kids to her church. Most of the weekend afternoons are family stuff.

Max workouts: Two 50-minute morning sessions, maybe three 40-minute lunch sessions, and one or two weekend workouts that could be as long as two hours or so. Will have to think of ways to boost this to do my first HIM next year...guess that means getting up earlier...which means getting to sleep earlier if I want to function, which means maybe 30 minutes of "down time" after kids are down and the house is picked up.

Ahhh, the life of a black shoe department head!

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Don't be afraid to ride too long or too hard. That's what cell phones are for. Rich Strauss

Up 6:00, work at home til 8:00

Run 8:00 to about 9:00

In office 9:30

Check in with employees

Meeting 10:00

Meeting 11:45

12:15 lunch at desk (salad)

Work through lunch

In office tonight til 7:30 ish

swim after work for 45 minutes

Dinner, tube, glass of wine, family

Review a couple of reports

Check email, stock quotes etc.

bed at 11:00

Do it all over tommorow

Exciting, huh?

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I'll be what I am
A solitary man

5:45 alarm - lots of coffee, oatmeal

6:30 - wake up daughter, make her breakfast, put her on bus at 7:05

7:05 breakfast for son

7:10 - 7:40 - run for 1/2 hour on treadmill

take quick shower, get dressed, etc

8:00 put son on schoolbus

8:00 - 3:10 - work

3:10 1st kid home, 2 loads laundry

4:15 - second kid home, soaked to the skin from the rain, needs hot chocolate

4:00 - 5:00 bike on trainer watching IMAZ on OLN

5:00 - 6:00 - library and grocery store

6:00 - present - dinner, more laundry, clean up kitchen, pay some bills, more laundry etc. No homework tonight (thank God) because schools are closed tomorrow - Jewish holiday.

can't wait to go to bed.

I could not stop laughing when I saw what you do from 8-5

M-Sat

5:30 - Up and at 'em, feed cats

5:30-7:00 - Workout

7:00 - 7:50 - Shower, eat, putz

8:00 AM - 8:00 PM - Super secret government baby killin' opto-electronic warfare research - eat while running experiments

8:00 PM - 9:00 - Feed cats, Feed me, Sit down

9:00 - 10:30 - Talk to Fiancee on other side of country

10:30 - Bed

Sunday

6:30 - Up and at 'em, feed cats, feed me

7:00 - 11:00 - Workout

11:00 - 12:00 - Shower, eat, putz

12:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Super secret government baby killin' opto-electronic warfare research

5:00 PM - 9:00 - Feed cats, Feed me, Sit down, write weekly report

9:00 - 10:30 - Talk to Fiancee on other side of country

10:30 - Bed



I am in grad school so I think my "work" period is a little excessive. 80 hour weeks blow but at least I'm getting pai...waaaaaaaait a MINUTE! Honestly though, I am astonished at how little time "real people" (aka folks with paying jobs, ST quorum) actually work. Please tell me there is a light at the end of the tunnel and that I won't be this burnt out for the rest of my life.

Current schedule:
Every day: 5:00 Wake up, eat a bowl of cereal & check ST
Mondays and Wednesdays: Arrive a pool at 6:00 swim for 45 mins - usually 2000/2500 yds
Tuesdays and Thursdays: Ride bike to work - 12 hilly miles 45 mins to/35 mins from
Every day: Arrive at work 7:15 (supposed to be 7 AM, but whos looking that close!)
Every day: 11:30 to 12:30 (or there abouts) run up to 6 miles or cycle up to 20 miles or swim up to 2500 yds
Tuesdays: 4:00 leave work, get home, make dinner, clean up, relax.
Mondays & Thursdays: 4:00 leave work, get home, take son to soccer practice & help the coach control those little devils, make dinner, clean up, relax.
Wednesdays & Fridays: Leave work at 3:30, Coach daughter's soccer team until 5:00. Get home make dinner relax.
Saturdays: Watch/coach kids soccer matches possibly get a run up to 10 miles in if schedule permits
Sundays: 6:00 I have about 5 or 6 hours to spend riding and running - If I ran Saturday, just a big ride, otherwise a big ride & run brick
Every day: 10:00 PM - Bed.

This all changes very soon as I start tapering for IMFL and then a 1 month break before 1/2 marathon in Jan, 1/2 IM in March and then my sprint season.

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Proud member of FISHTWITCH: doing a bit more than fish exercise now.

Typical week day:

5:00 AM rise and shine, feed and walk dogs
5:30 AM in to pool or out for run
7:00 AM back home shower and eat breakfast
7:45 AM leave for work
8:00 AM - 6:00 PM work (eat early lite dinner 4:00 PM)
6:15 PM Arrive Home
6:30 PM on the computrainer for about 2-2.5 hours
9:00 PM shower, rest
10:00 PM off to bed

Typical weekend day:
Add longer ride (4-6 hours)
Add longer run (1.5-2 hours)
Oh yeah, no work!!!

5:00 am wake up - check email, get caught up on stuff, eat, get ready

7:00 a work

(lunch - train 2hrs on Kinetics trainer)

5:00 pm head out into lovely SoCal traffic

6:00 eat, shop, etc

7:00 Slowtwitch

7:30 work some more

8:30 watch cycling.tv a little, clean up, prep for next day

9:00 relax

9:30 sleep

(that's M-F above)

Sat:

6 am wake up

8 am ride

12 back home

1-2 nap

2-6 shopping, movies, beach, whatever

7 relax

9:00 sleep

Sun

6:00 wake up

7:30 - 4pm training ride

4:30 eat lots

5-9 prep, rest, relax, whatever

9:30 sleep

if you could cut out some of the three hour round trip commute it would really help. I know that in a big city it can be hard if you have kids to live close to work though.

Dan
www.aiatriathlon.com

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5:30am Alarm

6:00-7:00am Trainer ride (watched Foolin' Around -- old Gary Busey flick -- it's great)

7:00am-8:35 Shower; get kids up, dressed, fed, cleaned, ready for school

8:35-8:40 Plead with son to stop meandering around the house and get in car; daughter already in car

8:40-9:00 Drive kids to school

9:00-12:00 Meet with decorator, shop for rug, barstools, entry-way table, classy looking TV trays (other days this is workout time or volunteer at school time)

12:00-12:45 Eat lunch

12:45-1:00 Pick up son from school

1:00-3:00 Buy ski season pass; go to Target; go to Buddy Center dog shelter to look at dogs

3:00-4:00 Watch Gilmore Girls; eat snacks

4:00-4:30 Pick up daughter from school

4:30-6:00 Clean kitchen; cook dinner

6:00-7:00 Eat dinner; console son over impending loss of snowball (see Lavendar Room for complete story)

7:00-8:00 Bathe kids; help daughter with homework; read to son

8:00-11:00 Pick up house; browse Slowtwitch; watch TV; read

11:00-11:30 Plan for tomorrow; go to bed

4:45 - 5:00 alarm goes off, hit the snooze button over and over

5:15 - 6:30 morning workout

6:30-7:15 shower, get dressed

7:15-7:30 breakfast

7:45 - 8:45 take the train to work

9:00 - 6:00 (except fridays when I leave at noon)

6:15 - 7:15 take the train home

7:30 snack

8:00 - 9:30 second workout

10:00 - 10:30 dinner

10:20 - 12:00 email, ST ... scope out my competition for next year

12:30 off to bed

4:00-4:30 -- wake-up

4:30 - 5:30 -- Am workout (run or bike)

5:30 - 6:45 -- get ready, get kids ready for school/daycare

7:15 -- 2:45 -- work (teacher)

3:00 -- 4:00 - 4:30 -- PM workout

4:00 -- 5:00 pick up kids & play

5:00 -- 5:30 get dinner ready (or at least help)

5:30-6:00 eat

6:00 -- 7:30 family time

7:30 -- 8:00 bath time

8:00 -- 9:00 read & bed time

9:00 -- 12:00 get everything ready for next day (iron clothes, food prep, training bag prep) and any school prep that needs done. Perhaps some XBOX if I feel like it. Sometimes make it to bed earlier than that. Not usually.

Check internet during transitions. =) We're usually pretty busy.

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Two things that impress me about this thread are

1) how little people sleep

2) how much responsibility guys seem to take for their kids

I know several outsiders to the sport who see triathletes as a bunch of hard-ons who train obsessively to get away from their families, but I don't see any evidence of that here. If anything, you guys seem to be more committed than the average citizen, and maybe it's the commitment to excellence as much as the competition itself that drives the core of the sport.

I have been a single father raising a girl for about 13 years now, and women (who do all the childcare) and men (who do none of it) that I know all marvel at this. It just seems normal to me to do what you need to do, and to do it with as much heart as you can.

I'm glad to see so much of it out there in ST land.

1) how little people sleep

Sleep isn't on the list of "Things I want to Accomplish During My Lifetime".

2) how much responsibility guys seem to take for their kids

IMO, this comes from having a busy schedule. When you are "with" your kids, you are really engaged with them and take advantage of the time you do have with them. I know quite a few folks that are around their kids more, but don't seem to really do much with their kids. I know folks that when it's their turn to "babysit" (<-- their word ... as if you babysit your own darn kids), it involves running to the video store to get 2 movies for their kids to watch (versus actually doing something with them).

One thing that works out well for me, is if I am on the trainer in the evening (waking up doesn't always happen at the planned time), my son is with me in the basement playing with the dogs, drawing pics of power rangers or we're watching Batman (now on the 3rd season). Sometimes, we play home-run derby (MVP BB 05-XBOX) or Batman (XBOX) while I ride. My wife and I seem to have a pretty good rotation of each of us having individual time, individual time with one kid, time with both kids, and time as a family (The self-described Fantastic Four). We all get to develop relationships with each individual, and as a group.

As I mentioned before (in previous threads). I had to decide to [1] become a morning trainer, or [2] give up the sport ... at least not prepare for it how I would prefer.

It's worked out rather well. Recently my wife has taken on training for a 1/2Mary, so she wakes up at 4AM some days, and on those days she gets the kids ready and takes them in ... so I get to sleep until 5AM .... which doesn't necessarily mean I get more sleep ... more like stay up a little later (like tonight).

For the most part, we've given up TV ... and I don't think any of us really miss it.

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Yep. At this time of year it's lots of anaerobic overdistance work. Long and boring. BTW, I race draft legal so have to hammer the swim so I'm not in no-man's land on the bike.

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"Language most shows a man: Speak, that I may see thee. It springs out of the most retired and inmost parts of us, and is the image of the parents of it, the mind. No glass so mirrors a man's form or likeness so true as his speech." - Ben Jonson, Timber, or Discoveries made upon Men and Matter.

Living in small western CDN city and "working" for gov't gives me TIME to train, a low cost of living, virtually no commute time (I live about 8 blocks from work, don't own a car and walk the 10 minutes to work everyday) and oh ya, did i mention time to train. It also helps to have grown kids. Kids are 20 (lives with mom) and 22 lives on his own FINALLY!

Off-Season Schedule

7 AM - get up, shit, shave and shower

7:30 - at the office, coffee, breaky and ST

8-12 "work"

t & th 12-1 masters swim - 1 block from work (m/w/f - core strength)

1-4:30 "work"

t & th 5:30-7 coach track (13 and unders) - it's like herding cats, but a hellish good time (m/w/f goof off, pilates, maybe go for a run)

7:30 eat in front of tv

8:30-10 surf

10 bed

11 PM Sleep

That's a recipe for success, but not getting rich!

Rick.

Up at 6, train, get into uni early to do some marking, check e-mails (normally 100's), lecture 2-3 hours per day, do some research, normally leave work at 4 to train again, in the evening either rest or hit the locaility for some social engagements !

You've discovered the "secret" - giving up TV.

I haven't seen an actual network television show in more than three years. This may seem insignificant to some, but I was raised in a household where the TV was always on. The day's activities were always performed with the goal of "on the couch by 8:00 pm for prime-time" as the ultimate reward.

My wife, through several years of oppressive, relentless nagging, helped me kick the habit, and I love her even more for it.

There's absolutely no way I'd ever be able to consistently exercise, or more importantly, spend any REAL time with my kids if I was devoted to one of the countless verions of CSI, Law & Order, reality blah, blah, blah.....

Whenever sopmeone asks me how I have time to exercise I always tell them the same thing: the first step is to turn off your television.

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Life is like riding a bicycle.
To keep your balance you must keep moving.
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Damn skippy, we cancelled our cableabout 8 months ago and don't miss it (still can get CBC for HNIC ;-)). Lots more time in the day now.

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"How bad could it be?" - SimpleS

4:30 a.m. Wake

4:45 a.m. feed Trixie and Trigger

4:50 a.m. feed me

5:00 a.m. make tea

6:00 a.m. get wife out of door

6:05-8:45-ish (depending on day) internet

8:45-sh- 10 or 11:45 ish (depending on day) ride, run, or fabricate carbon fibre

10:30 - noon-ish shower

11:00- 13:00-ish (depending on day) go to work

19-21:00 get home

21:00- 22:00 eat

22:00-02:00 have sex

02:00- 4:30 sleep

I have cable still since my wife enjoys some of the shows...I tend to walk away...but one thing I love is HNIC and now with hockey back, I can't get enough of TSN, SportsNet, Leafs TV, etc...it seems to have taken over for me.

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Good athletes train when they want to, great athletes train when they don't......

I've tried to get more sleep. I used to only get about 4-5 hours a night and have now made a point of trying to get a minimum of 6 and hopefully 7 (Masters practice going until 10.30pm on some night makes it tough when I have to be up at 5am the next morning).

As for time with my daughter...that was one thing I said I would never sacrifice training for tri's. So I have become an early morning trainer or an after bedtime trainer. When she's up and I'm home, my time is dedicated to her and my wife. I find that since I have somewhat scheduled my life around family, training and work that it makes it more important to ensure that all my time spent with family is quality time. Friends that have kids and are around them all the time seem to not enjoy being parents and can't wait to get the kids to the grandparents for the night...I don't get it. She's just too much fun!

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Good athletes train when they want to, great athletes train when they don't......

OK, I'll bite......

445 - Alarm goes off. Hit snooze.
446 - Cat jumps on me. Throw cat off
447 - Cat jumps on me. Throw cat off.
etc ect ad nauseum until....
0455 Snooze alarm goes off. Get up
455-530 Feed cats, snack, evacuate bowels etc.
545-715 (MWF swim, TTH run to gym and do full body workout, then run home)
715 -815 Clean up, eat breakfast nap alittle maybe.
815-900 Work Commute
900-1400 Look Busy(some days more than others anyway)
1400-1430 Eat lunch
1430-1700 Look Busy
1700-1745 Drive home
1800-1930 M: Soccer. TWTh: Class until 1930 (up to 2100 on W)
2000-2300 Homework, Watch L&O: CI or Red Wings game. Usually a combo of all 3.
2330 Bed

6:00am - 7:00am - workout

7-8:30 - DOWNTIME. breakfast, WSJ, whatever.

9:00 - at desk

12:00 - slowtwitch etc with lunch, hit driving range. DOWNTIME.

7:00pm - leave office

7pm - 11pm - fun with the wife.

11pm - out.

current training plan: one hour a day, every day gives a boy a 35 minute 10k.

1AM - Wake up and go to depot to assemble and bag papers.
1:30-5AM Deliver papers, (I have 2 routes, that's why it takes longer)
5AM - Shower, take 1 hr nap.
6AM - Up to get kids ready, fed, dropped off to daycare and commute to work by 8AM
8-5 - Fulltime job.
6PM Home, help feed kids, clean, play baths, errands, bed time stories, etc until 9PM
9PM - Hope to God kids go down quick so I can get 4 hrs of sleep before starting again at 1AM the next day. Will by-pass sleep if wife is in the mood.
1AM - Second verse, same as the first.
Jamma.

5:30 am wake up as wife gets up for work
5:30 - 6:30 doze or be pummelled by kids, depending on whether they are sleeping or not
6:30 - 8:00 get kids dressed, fed, and prepped for school
8:00 - 8:20 older boy goes in carpool to school, play with younger
8:20 - 9:00 drive younger to school, self to work
9:00 - 6:00 pm work, with an hour for a lunchtime workout.
6:20 - 7:00 home, dinner with kids
7:00 - 8:30 bathtime for kids, stories, brush teeth, more stories
8:30 - 9:00 herd kids into bed and try to keep them there
9:00 - 9:45 clean up kitchen/house, pack lunches
9:45 - 10:30 pay bills/do laundry/household chores/work on bike/unpack and repack workout bag
10:30 - 10:45 read
11:00pm collapse

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"It is a good feeling for old men who have begun to fear failure, any sort of failure, to set a schedule for exercise and stick to it. If an aging man can run a distance of three miles, for instance, he knows that whatever his other failures may be, he is not completely wasted away." Romain Gary, SI interview

05:30-06:00 - get up get dressed, bike to the pool (MWF, TTh, sleep in til 6:00)
06:00-07:00 - MWF Swim - then bike to work; TTh - eat, pull stuff together, bike to work
07:00-07:30 - Shower and get ready for work
07:30-11:30 - Work
11:30-12:30 - Noon workout
12:30-13:00 - shower and get dressed, and back to office
13:00-18:30 - Work
18:30-19:00 - bike home
19:00-23:00 - time with the wife
23:00-5:30 - sleep

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During the week on tuesdays-thursdays

2-3AM Give bottle to baby if its my turn or the wife is tired

6:30AM wake up, shower, dress, etc

7:30-8AM give bottle to baby, walk the dog

8:30AM breakfast and out to work

WORK ALL DAY

7-7:30PM Arrive from work, change

7:45-8PM RUN WORKOUT for about 45min

9PM Spend time with the Family



Saturdays and Sundays

2-3 AM Give bottle to baby

6:15AM Wake up, get ready

6:45AM out the door for cycling

7:30 to ???? CYCLING WORKOUT 3 to 5 hours.

After that is all good to run errands, be with the fam, watch TV, sleep..... whatever



Peace

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"Bros b4 Hos, man" House MD

Team Aquaphor 06-08

All these posts and only one - bunnyman - inlcudes sex.

Scary group.

Hey i said .......whatever at the end of my post. That could actually include some loving, but point well taken seems that everyone is too busy training :)



peace

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"Bros b4 Hos, man" House MD

Team Aquaphor 06-08

M,Tu,Th...

Get up 4-6AM...usually depends on the kid
4-5AM Possibly workout
5AM-8:20AM Eat, feed kid, shower while kid tries to open curtain and dive in.
8:20-8:30 Drop kid off at Baby sitter.
8:30-5:00 - Work. Including run to customers, post on ST, draw funny cartoons, babysit people, janitorial duties human resources, accounting etc etc.
5:00-7:00 Workout
7:00-8:00 Eat, run after naked kid in hall, bath kid, wife puts kid to sleep.
8:00-11:00 Misc, go to sleep.

Wed - Watch kid from Son up to 5:30-6PM. Try to take him to Y so I can get a workout in, pick up daughter at school. Same evening.

Fri same except drop kid off at Wifes work so she can take him to "Mom's" group.

Sat/Sun are all screwed up and some days, like yesterday, include much less sleep and more watch kid.

Like Put kid to sleep 8PM, Kid wakes up 11PM because of stuffed up nose, wife watches. Wife comes to bed claiming "I must get some sleep". I watch kid from 12:30 Running around house asking for food, screeming like a banshee with various items in tow. Kid finally goes to sleep 3AM...then gets up again at 5:30AM...wife leaves at 6AM I watch kid.

I don't know how you people survive on 5-6hrs sleep. I'm a complete freakin zombie whith anything less than 7 or so.

~Matt

[reply]Up @ 0530

Shower, dress, pack food for the day

Out the door @ 0600

Start work @ 0630

0900 snack

1100 lunch

1400 snack

1500 leave work

1530-1630 or 1700 work out

1800 dinner

2000 snack

2130 bed

rinse and repeat!![/reply]

When do you go out in the BATMOBILE? What exactly is your relationship with Robin?

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Dick

Take everything I say with a grain of salt. I know nothing.

He's probably the only one that not actually getting any. =)

It is possible to get laid, have sex, make love, etc and not talk about it on a message board. Really, I've done it before ... twice.

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5:00 wake

5:01 - 5:15 work

5:30 - 7:00 swim practice

7:15 - 10:30 work

10:31 - 10:00pm Live life to the fullest. Most days include a ride, run, lunch, dinner. Ski most days depending on snow conditions.

That's what the internet is for. Any "network" show we want to watch (yes there are a few) we d/l the next day. Watch it with zero commercials on our Xbox. Beautiful solution.

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"How bad could it be?" - SimpleS

Uh - is that before or after I became COMPLETELY OBSESSED W/ ST ??!!??

Before:

-get up, (no alarm - they are eeeeeeevil!) @ the crack of 9 - ish (don't hate)

-run or ride or brick (dep. on training schedule for the day)

-off to work work (sometimes get there early to lift weights or swim - I work at a gym/spa. Veeeeerrrrrrrry good perks)

-work, work, work, work, work

-home to snuggle up w/ some Reality TV, dinner, (glass o' wine optional. I usually opt waaay too often)

After:

-get up @ 9 - ish

-ST, ST, ST, ST, ST

-run or spin, (weather sux lately - I know that's No Excuse - but I'm using it anyway. okay, lemme have it...)

-off to work (probably will be going in early more often, as Treadmill Season is fast approaching)

-work, work, work, work, work

-home

-ST & Reality TV cocktail. Dinner. Glass o' wine, (more often than not lately)

I also don't work ev'ry day rite now. Which is making it harder to save for NEW BIKE!!!

I'll join in late here, just to piss people off.

7AM Alarm goes off

8AM get out of bed, make coffee eat a little

8:30 Run 3-8 miles, yoga, shower and eat again

12PM Start work

9PM Go home, ride trainer for 90 minutes, then shower

11PM Bedtime.

Owning your own business and having your partner love mornings is great. (So is not having kids for now.)