Balancing work, life and running has been nearly impossible.
Everything is tipping over in favor of work and I'm still trying to find a happy medium between work, sports and sitting around recovering from long tiring days...
Work is busy and demanding and will only become more so. This is actually the easy period. I'll have to become WAY more efficient and motivated...
I end up running like once a week (but usually half marathon distance, but still, this is not enough to improve or even maintain running fitness, I don't thinl) and I swim once or twice a week. As usual, cycling hasn't been happening. I've pretty much hated it since doing 2 miserable long distance bike races. It was also a source of conflict in my last relationship and my bike was stolen (also a casualty of previous relationship) so have an old heavy vintage road bike to train on and nothing more which makes cycling even more unappealing than if I had a nicer bike. The plan is to improve on the home trainer and then treat myself to a nicer bike whehn I'm better at cycling.
I just got a home trainer, but have no idea how to put my bike in it. And before even getting to the point where I have to figure out that step, first I have to change a flat tire on my bike (which I know how to do in theory but in practice by myself seems a little more intimidating) and change awful pedals with cages to more reassuring clip in pedals. Only then will bike be ready to face next puzzle of how to put it in the home trainer correctly. Not entirely confident in my ability to do any of these bike things, but will try to do it on my own first before bothering anyone about helping me.
So triathlon training across the board is not so hot right now.
I really have to work on swimming to go up to 1,500m next summer (olympic distance tri) when I already think half of that: 750m (sprint distance) is a lot... And I have a long term (6 month) marathon training plan that I want to follow for the Paris marathon in April and the pre-training phase starts next week. Pre-training actually sounds nice. Lots of slow jogging, I'm down with that.
