New Beginnings

You're not alone.  

Training for a sprint can be done in mostly 30 minute workouts.  Even Olympic distance can have most workouts in the 30-45 minute range with an hour ride as your "long ride."  Can you bike commute even 1-2 days per week?  

Now a half-marathon will require building up to 90-120 minute runs which are harder to fit into a busy week.  

My life is as busy s everyone else. I started Triathlon training between kids number 2 and kid number 3, but my running training really changed after kid number 1 and carried over to triathlon when I change sports.   

My work schedule is 8-5 PM (but I rarely leave the office before 6:00 PM).  So...my training time is from 5-7AM in the morning.   I have to be done by 7:00 AM so that I can start the farm chores.  I don't do any work outs in the evening because that is family time.  The only year round public pool in town is less than a mile from my office though so and I can break away long enough on my lunch our to get a mile swim in a few times a week. Saturdays I can do longer works outs and Sunday in my rest day.  So...I alternate run days and bike days in the mornings Monday-Friday, swim on lunch breaks and the only day that training really interferes with thinks like 4 week olds in the home is on Saturday morning. I sometimes am up by 5:00 on Saturdays so that I can get in a 3 hour work out before the family misses me too much.  bu usually have the luxury to sleep in to 7:00 AM on Saturdays.    

It sounds like you could do a 6-8 O'clock training block and a noon - 1:00 PM training block fall to spring move the morning block to 6-8 in the evening in the summer.  With 10 acres of land, if you are like me you will be doing long work outs on many Saturday then go right into 10 hours of work in the yard.  I sometime look at my Saturday Projects as endurance training.  In the 103 Oklahoma heat.  I will schedule my fluid in take, calories intake, etc like some one might do for an Ironman.  :-)  I have built fences, barns, built coops, maintained lawn, maintained gardens, etc.  Like is short.  It is hard to fit everything in, but keeping active sure is a better way to live.  If you aren't working your time seems to disappear with out anything to show for it.