Other strategies I have tried to adopt to balance my running with family time are to do my long run during the week instead of on the weekend, and using a weekend day as a dedicated off day. I’ve also learned that sometimes you need to seize opportunities to have fun and not let your training schedule dictate your life.
Yesterday, for example, we had planned to take the kids to Lost River Gorge up in the White Mountains. My wife asked me if I wanted to stay home and get some things done, but I wasn’t going to miss a day of fun with the kids. So despite my stress of trying to get everything taken care of for my trip, I went to Lost River and had a blast. It took my mind off everything for half a day. I got to spend some quality time crawling around through caves with my gang. I may not hit my planned mileage this week, and I may fall a bit behind with email responses, but I will remember the trip with the family far more than anything I would have done had I stayed home.
As I finished Arnold’s article I found new resolve to stick with the morning runs. Yes,Nike Air Max 95 Femme running is a time for me, but it shouldn’t take time away from them. And I’d love to try and get the family to come up to VT for the race. It would mean the world to me to have them there. I love these guys, and I need to do a better job of putting them first at all times. and you have a nice looking family! I think you have begun to do the right things-shifting your long run, getting up eariler, which used to be hard for me, but like any other routine you can adjust after 1-2 months. May I suggest afternoon naps if the Nike Air Max 90 Uomo time presents itself? I think Winston Church Hill was a napper. Also, I would cap the ultras at 50k or even less, until the kids grow up, since you are not a professional runner. You could look at it as a base building phase, then as they get older and their friends become “like everything”, you will have more time to hit the longer stuff if you want to, or they could become Dads “pit crew” if they wanted to, or maybe they will become runners and want to race too! Best of luck with the balance. “To those who much is Nike Air VaporMax Femme given, much is required”. Just a quote I heard somewhere. I think this means you are going to be tired.I have worked from home for 13 years now, and having a family with three children means that school holidays can be a bit of challenge to get work done.
W.r.t fitting in racing and training, I ran my first really long Nike Air Max Thea Femme ultra at the end of June (the 95 mile West Highland Way Race) and did most of my training runs before Nike Air Max 90 Womens lunch or just after getting up in the morning. The only really long runs I did in the six months before the race were a marathon and 53 mile ultra. The long runs I did in training were all in the 13 to 15 mile range, which is short even for marathon training. Most weeks I got in two of these runs though.
My race went really well so despite relative short long runs was able to perform well. For a 50k race I’d not worry much at all about getting lots of really long runs in, half marathon distance would be fine.
I think the key to making modest long runs work is avoiding a high carb diet and running fasted. The combination means that your body will be burning more fat throughout the whole day as well as your runs. It takes a little Nike Air Max 90 Mens Black adaptation time to shift across from burning predominately carbs to predominately fats but once Nike Air Max Thea Donne you have achieved it the stress on needing really long training runs is diminished.