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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"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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Larry

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