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 2009-09-15 2:22 PM |
Extreme Veteran  547   Atlanta |  Subject: Anyone work, school, and Tri?I know scheduling can be difficult for everyone for various things, especially those with children I'm sure. I don't have that issue yet, but I am thinking of going back to school. I really wanted to put some quality training in and do a HIM in the spring. But with (at least) 40 hours a week in the office, an active dog at home, a couple various volunteer responsibilities, and trying to keep what little social life I have, I'm not sure I can fit in school and a HIM schedule. Has anyone been through this? Any thoughts or ideas to share? I figured even with one class (and I'd like to do 2), I'd be out at least 5 more hours a week. |
| 2009-09-15 2:26 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Extreme Veteran 717 Chicago | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? We always seem to be so busy but we cannot give up training I too work about 40 hrs per week and I am currently in graduate school (2 classes per week). I am not training for a HIM but I am still keeping up my training for sprints and Olympic distances. I am not quite ready for an HIM as I just started racing this summer. I tend to do my weekday workouts in the mornings (I don't have kids yet either). I don't tend to do school work in the morning so basically it's free time for me. Although it did take some adjustments since my night MBA classes last until 9pm :-( I also set aside some time usually on Sunday afternoon for training as well. And I try just to slip it in anywhere else I can get it. Training, especially outdoors, is a really nice study break for me. Often I'll start school work at night and after about an hour I will need a break so I'll head out for a short 30-45 min jog to clear my mind and get some fresh air. It actually helps! Good luck to you! |
| 2009-09-15 2:32 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Regular 102 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? As a student/worker/triathlete myself, I can say it will be really tough to do a HIM. As a general educational rule of thumb, each hour in class (3 per week for a standard semester-long course) means 2-3 hours of work outside of class. Thus, even one class is gonna cost you 3 hours sitting in class and anywhere from 6-9 more hours of homework/research. That has been my experience anyway, as both a student and an employee at a college. I've found I can only juggle 3 of the 4 following things at one time: work, school, "life", and training. If you can do all four, more power to you, but considering the amount of quality sleep hours you need to do a HIM in addition to the training hours, I wouldn't recommend what you are considering. I tried to do all four over the summer (for an Oly, mind you) and was underprepared come race day. |
| 2009-09-15 2:34 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Extreme Veteran 577 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? I do shift work in the Air Force, about 40 hours a week average, go to college part time at University of Phoenix, and successfully trained for a HIM this year. No kids, or a dog, but I kept a good social life too. It is all about proper planning and keeping priorities straight. |
| 2009-09-15 2:35 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Elite 4564 Boise | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? It depends on you. Do you want to do the best you possibly can at the HIM or just finish? I have a few part time jobs, go to school full time and managed to finish a HIM in June. It was far from what I know I should be able to do in a HIM but I still finished. |
| 2009-09-15 2:37 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Veteran 667 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? I can relate to your circumstance. I'm in law school and it takes a lot of time. Class, studying plus all the extraneous crap means I have to be really disciplined regarding how I eat and how and when I work out. It's occasionally frustrating because I have to constantly explain myself so my friends know I'm not blowing them off, I just have different goals. Also, I don't have time to prepare the meals I'd like so I end up eating a lot of the same - which gets boring, but I'm not going to start snarfing down crap. Well, not often. I don't know how other people do it, but the consequence of school and training has been that I do most of my technique work early mornings or in the evenings and my endurance work over the weekends - which isn't ideal, but it's what I can do. I'm debating getting a swimming coach this fall, but it's proving somewhat challenging to find one whose schedule fits mine. |
| 2009-09-15 3:22 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Extreme Veteran 397 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? i consider myself lucky. im a firefighter with a wife and two young daughters. i work 10- 24 hour shifts a month. i get home in the mornings at 7 am. when the 7yr old has school i take her and the wife goes back to bed with the youngest. my wife doesnt work. i get back at 8 am and have until 2:30 to train. weekends as long as theres no plan i have till noon. i use my work days as my ''rest days''. the only down side is last weekend i had to work the day before a race, we were up all night with emergency runs, so i got about 2 hours of sleep. |
| 2009-09-15 3:53 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Veteran 178 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? I do all three but am 13 credit hours away from making that only 2. But Im also getting married so think that'll bring it back up to 3 aspects. Its all about time management, 40 of work, 15 hours of class still leaves alot of time for tri. depending on how much you love sleep |
| 2009-09-15 4:33 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Extreme Veteran 339 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? Well I'm in that boat right now also… I’m not training for a HIM in the spring but would love to be able to do an Olympic not year. I work 45hrs a week, go to class M, T, & W from 6- 9:30 or 10, have one online class and also try to fit in training. Which by the way, I have found out that trying to balance then all at once is a rather difficult thing to do. I have slacked off on my training quite a bit since school has started but that doesn’t mean I have stopped. I usually either get up in the morning and do a quick 15-30 minute workout at home and if that doesn’t work I do my workout after I get home at night. Then on the days I don’t have class I try to make sure I get to the gym after work. Anyway this seems to work ok for me. |
| 2009-09-15 4:49 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
| 105 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? It is possible, but does take planning and there is not much fluff time. I did IMFL while working full time and working on my masters degree. I only did 1 - 2 classes per semester (usually only1). My husband was doing the same things so we got a ton of quality time together doing long rides. No kids at that point. We did 2x 3-5 hr workouts on the weekends. Most of the homework was mid week and did much less training mid week (maybe 1 hr/day). We had Friday nights "off" to socialize with friends and during recovery weeks we would substitute a fun day (SCUBA diving, boating, go see something fun, rollerblading...) for one of the long workouts. Biggest thing is you have to keep up the calories to have enough energy to get it all done. You also need to get good sleep. It is not worth sacrificing an hour of sleep for an hour of training, socializing... school and work had to come first but training was the close third that sometimes suffered. A HIM would be much more doable. The training requirements are a little less and you are not so dead after a long workout that you can't finish your school work. Cleaning the house was the biggest thing that suffered. |
| 2009-09-15 5:21 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Veteran 281 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? If there is a will there is a way and I personal think education is the most valuable thing nobody can every take away from you-especially if it is going to open better jobs up for you! Go for the school-you won't regret it! |
| 2009-09-15 5:51 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Master 2404 Redlands, CA | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? Not me, I just got my Bachelor's Degree last year! (after 8 years of school / work / and some training) I have nothing else to contribute here except never put training ahead of education, its too important... |
| 2009-09-15 5:57 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Extreme Veteran 369 Maine | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? I work 40 hrs, goto school ~24 hrs, and have a family with school aged kids. I can get most of my tri training in most weeks. I wouldn't consider training for anything longer than a sprint until I either finish school, win the lotto (thus ending school and work), or kids magically age 12 years overnight and move out. Good luck, it's all about the scheduling, planning, and efficiency of time.... Edited by Mainer22 2009-09-15 5:57 PM |
| 2009-09-15 6:23 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Expert 1690 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? Going back for my masters, work part time bout 30hours a week. I find i do have alot more time to train than i think. its just alot of times i put it off till later and cant go as long/far as i want because of this. Even in the heat of school taking 15 hours working 30 hours a week I still managed to run every day. Im sure somewhere in there you can fit an hour 5 days a week. ETA* i see you live in atlanta, if you go to GSU you'd be crazy not to use the rec center its amazing! the pool is nice even has a whirl pool on the side. tredmills and trainers always available, track up stairs. The staff is pretty helpful too. Only went to tech gym once but i have to assume its just as nice. Edited by mkarr0110 2009-09-15 6:26 PM |
| 2009-09-15 7:44 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Regular 115 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? 40 hours work, 16 credit hours, married with a 2 year old. I can barely get enough training in to do an Olympic race. I put my little girl in the stroller when we run so we can spend time together. I don't plan on a longer distance for at least a few years once I am graduated. Good luck and make sure you get to sleep  |
| 2009-09-15 10:57 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Member 603 Chicago | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? I posted about this a few weeks ago. I go to school two days a week from 7 in the morning and last class ends at nine. I now do some decent runs at the campus gym. I also work 40 hours a week. It was suggested to me that I right out everything and see where I can squeeze any training in. I am also going to get a trainer on Thu. (my birthday) so I can train in the basement at night. I think that is the best. Write everything out in a planner and find times where you can get a good 45 minute run in and still have a little bit of time before or after until you have to move on to your next thing. Its a bit stressful but will work in the end. |
| 2009-09-15 11:28 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Regular 65 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? Work: 25 hrs/week Training: 7 hrs/week School: 35 hrs/week Lets do some math... There are 168 hrs in a week. I sleep 56 of those hrs. On avg., For every credit hour you take in college, you work 3 hrs outside the class room. I am taking 17. 17x3=51hrs 51+56+25+7+35= 174hrs Hmmmm.... This is strange....There are not enough hrs in a week for me. But I am still here. Working hard, making money and getting A's. |
| 2009-09-15 11:34 PM in reply to: #2407801 |
Expert 1073 scottsdale, az | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? me!!! Working 15-20 hpw ( also do expos some weekends which racks up a TON of hours, college student and in training. It's hard. I had to get a run in, in-between one of my classes today. |
| 2009-09-16 10:44 AM in reply to: #2407801 |
Veteran 121 | Subject: RE: Anyone work, school, and Tri? Close. I was working ~50 hrs/wk + studying ~15 hrs/wk + doing Oly training. Since the main difference between my Oly and HIM training is the long stuff on the weekend, I don't think it would have been a stretch to train for a HIM. |
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