Triathletes with kids or in relationships, please take a bow!

Last year I trained for my first Sprint and would do all three disciplines each week, but didn't really have anything organized. I was busy, but it wasn't really anything formal. This year I started my first organized program from a plan I bought from TrainingPeaks.

I'm a single guy living in a big city and I just finished my second week of the offseason training program. I was thinking yesterday, I don't understand how people with families do this! My commute is about an hour each way and if I have two training sessions in a day, I'm not usually done/home until 8pm at the earliest. I'm still figuring out how to work in weight training sessions, and I know i'll be home earlier if I did some training in the morning - but none the less, to the people that train + have kids or are a single parent, bless your damn heart! I'm struggling with keeping up with laundry and grocery shopping. To have to work + commute + train + kids + nutrition + water consumption + prioritizing relationships + enough sleep to recover...

Give yourself a pat on the back! I wanted to throw this out there though because I'm sure some of you don't realize how well of a balancing act you're doing!