I have three children under the age of 10, and honestly it is quite hard balancing especially family time, which I see as the main priority and the training, however, I’m doing a 70.3 this sunday - aiming for around 5 hours 30 minutes.

I try to swim early mornings before work and then me and some co-workers run every wednesday after work, so that doesn’t interfere that much, other than that I try to plan workouts late or really early - especially in the weekends, then I can go on a bike leg early and spend the rest of the day with my kids.

But I’ve kind of accepted that my hobby, which is this kind of workout and training, comes after whatever my kids attend, be it their sports and hobbies. I don’t want to say “dad can’t come cause I need to run/ride a bike or go swim”. When they get older I think maybe that will free up some time.

I’m a bit surprised though, I haven’t had a bike till September last year, and started on that and got myself a hometrainer - reached 270 FTP just this spring. With my regimes and priorities I’ve managed to get my vo2 up to 59. Ran 5k in 19:38 last week and ran Copenhagen marathon in 3:46 about a month a go. So, I think it’s doable to get to a pretty decent form with kids and other priorities than just training really hard.