What do you do for living? And manage your training? (Page 2)

Self Employed Auto Body Shop Owner/Tech.  Workouts are all at 4:30 in the morning.  Work hours are M-F 6:30 to 5:30.  Sat 7 to 12.  3 kids 8, 3, and 2 months.  Yipee!!!! 

I am an engineer and my wife is an attorney.  We have 2 teenage kids that are very busy and we are very involved in their activities.  Training takes a backseat for me to work and family activities.  I also only rarely workout in the early am because I dislike working out super early and I have to take the kids to school.  That will change when my son gets his driver's license in the Spring, so we'll see.  As a result, I fit in training as I can and am therefore limited to shorter races.  I try to get in 2x3 - two sessions for each event (s/b/r) each week.  I can usually manage it with my focus on longer session on the weekends.  Racing strategy - Stick to sprints and try to go fast (at least for an old man).  Want to try an Oly this year - we'll see.

I'm a contracts administrator for and R&D firm.  my days are long...usually 630 to 530 but the nice thing is that I have a 4-day work week!  I have 2-young kids so evenings don't work for me to exercsie...it's early morning usually at 430 - 5am.  Ten years ago I would have never imagined getting up at 4am to workout!

This past year I left a large Wall Street firm to join a newly-formed independent advisory firm, where I'm a partner and Sr. Vice Presidents-Investments. 

Lots to do with a new firm; some very long days over the past six months. As a previous poster mentioned, owning your own business can easily be a 24/7/365 commitment.  While in theory you can set your own schedule, the reality is that there just aren't enough hours in the day sometimes.  We're starting to get ahead of things - actually left "early"at 5:30PM last night. 

I'm also starting my term as Board Chairman for the local affiliate of Habitat for Humanity, which means a commitment of about one evening per week and a couple Saturday mornings per month. 

With everything going on in my life, I've pretty much have become a "weekend warrior" lately as far as my training goes.  I've just been too tired and worn out to train consistently during the week.

I'm trying get myself back into a morning workout schedule.  For years I used to get up at 5AM and go to the gym or run, but have been struggling to get myself back into that routine.  I don't have any family constraints, so no excuses in that regard.   

Mark

I'm a part-time teacher. I work 25 hours per week just now and go to school/online classes about 10 hours per week. I'm also a mom 24/7

I managed to train for an Ironman by getting up early My biggest challenge is my husband's work schedule, he puts in long days or nights and his shifts change a lot. He works every other weekend which meant trying to fit 100 mile rides in on a friday or finding child care. We made it work by communicating our schedules (hubby trains for Tris, my kids are involved in sports) and keeping the calendar updated. Sometimes I had to skip key workouts because my family and work came first but in the end it didnt matter. I'm loking forward to training for another IM in 2010 now that I know it's not impossible to fit it all in. I should add that having a supportive spouse was key to all this and having training partners to share child care with really helps too