6:10am here on the East Coast. Just finished my morning 10 miler. Who's with me?

Father of Four wrote:

44 years old, 4 kids and a full time job. Still finding a way to bang out 60-70 miles a week!

50 years old, 3 kids and a full-time job. Just finished my coffee. I did get 10,000 steps yesterday.

37, father of three, full-time career, just finished my coffee, about to head out in the rain for 40 min recovery in the midst of an 80 mile week!

I'm going to find a way to squeeze in a few 30 minute runs and an hour long run this week. But I will work at least 60 hours this week and spend more time fcking my super hot girlfriend than I spend running. I guess running is only third on my priorities list. I'm ok with that.

Father of Four wrote:

RE: 6:10am here on the East Coast. Just finished my morning 10 miler. Who's with me?

Impressive. 5.15am is very early to leave the house for an easy run.

33, father of two, fulltime job. Left for my run at 4:45. Fell on my ass twice this morning. Stupid ice. Time for the treadmill.

The obvious answer wrote:

Father of Four wrote:

RE: 6:10am here on the East Coast. Just finished my morning 10 miler. Who's with me?

Impressive. 5.15am is very early to leave the house for an easy run.

Ha. I wish! For Wednesday 10 milers I'm usually up at about 4:30 and out the door at 4:40-4:45. Get back around 6:00-6:10--sometimes, if I'm feeling great, I'll finish before 6. Then take 20 min to a half hour to meditate before waking my oldest for high school and starting my day. It is a nice routine, I'll admit.

Father of 2 4 year olds, full time job. Just back from 7x 1mile workout in lunchtime (in UK). Start work at 6:30 so I can take a longish lunch for running and still get home in time to play with the kids and have dinner together. Work a half day Friday so usually run the 22 miles home and get back in time to pick kids up from school. Managing 60-70mpw.

62 years old, father of 3 adults, retired. Just back from the docs where they drew blood to check cholesterol level. Played golf the last two days, so planning to run instead this AM. Have had some calf tightness lately, so may do less than my usual 5 miles.

notmuchtimetotrain wrote:

33, father of two, fulltime job. Left for my run at 4:45. Fell on my ass twice this morning. Stupid ice. Time for the treadmill.

"I'm an uncoordinated weakling."

50, coming back after 2 years of ITBS, run 30 mpw between 5:45 and 6:20am, Dave Haaga is my hero.

Ran 5 yesterday (6x800, none under 3:00). Will run 5 this afternoon with HS team. Will probably check LRC boards 5+ times in between. Enjoy the day.

father of only 1, full time job with lots of travel, today is my afternoon run (8-10 miles) but normally i'm out by 6:00am, 70mpw

50, PhD, father of 3 perfect children, husband to a hot 25 year old, CEO and President of the Fortune 500 company I founded after completing my 26 time All American track and XC career, 120 MPW average for 30 years, only run in flats (1,000 mile average per pair) here. Just got in from a long business trip to Japan so my morning 15 got pushed to lunch. I'll head out at 12 and be back by 1 for my massage. I'll probably get in a quick 10 for recovery before my personal chef tosses together a quick dinner party for my family and 100 of our closest friends. It's a perfect day for a garden party so I'll get Biff and Buffy to get the old band together so we can all do barbershop sing alongs.

Before I hit the hay I'll short sell se property in the Hamptons, divest oil shares in Camaroon, and dump all my Euros to help boost the dollars I bought low a few years back when they were super cheap.

Your self/congratulatory posts about your running a lame.

You should retitle this thread "Birth control for 20-something LRCers still trying to make their dreams become reality."

I have two young kids and a full-time job, and I'm wrapping up a marathon training cycle averaging 85 mpw with a few weeks at 90-100. But my life feels monastic: basically eat, sleep, kids, run, work. Looking forward to a break after the marathon this weekend.

Won up wrote:

Your self/congratulatory posts about your running a lame.

Yeah. You're right. I wonder why I felt the need to pat myself on the back half an hour ago. Will try to avoid it from now on.

why is this thread worthy? anybody with a job who doubles is running around that time

I love that most of these guys are posting about being a father and totally leave out the whole "husband" thing. No wonder that post-nuptual shut off thread has been alive for so long.

father of none wrote:

why is this thread worthy? anybody with a job who doubles is running around that time

I'm a father of two and found this post inspiring. It got my butt out the door this morning, in fact. It is easy to let your running slack once you have children. Seeing other guys out there doing it lets you know you can too. Much more "worthy" post than the 50 relationship posts and hundreds of political posts we see every day.

Father of Four wrote:

44 years old, 4 kids and a full time job. Still finding a way to bang out 60-70 miles a week!

Aren't you special?