Totally empathize. They just have to get blocked into the calendar and treated as seriously as all the other must do stuff. I do mine, during a marathon training cycle, one week out, maybe two. I look at the runs required, then the calendar of work events, kid needs, gigs, travel, etc., decide if I’m running pre-dawn, lunchtime, or at night, try and balance energy requirements of hard work things or long gigs with easy recovery run days. It mostly works. Most of the time.
That sounds like an amazing process! Taking it one or two weeks at a time probably makes it seem more do-able than if you tried to schedule everything out too far and then had to juggle at the last minute.
"Here’s our schedule: every night, the same things happen: supper, bathtime, bedtime, in the same order, all timed. Then I go run. This means I run between 7:30 and 9pm every night, but that works for me."
That's also my approach. I'm not running everyday, because I change everyday with my wife with bringing the kids to bed. Sometimes I add the extra run during the lunch break at work or I get some time off as a "present" from my wife. Usually I get 4-5 runs a week done. That's also one of the reasons why started running again, because I had only limited time at certain times of the day and it was no problem to put some running shoes on and use the 30 minutes. Due to the regularity of doing that it became more and more a part of life, I stood up for that more and it was clear to everyone else how important it was for me to go for a run.
Totally empathize. They just have to get blocked into the calendar and treated as seriously as all the other must do stuff. I do mine, during a marathon training cycle, one week out, maybe two. I look at the runs required, then the calendar of work events, kid needs, gigs, travel, etc., decide if I’m running pre-dawn, lunchtime, or at night, try and balance energy requirements of hard work things or long gigs with easy recovery run days. It mostly works. Most of the time.
That sounds like an amazing process! Taking it one or two weeks at a time probably makes it seem more do-able than if you tried to schedule everything out too far and then had to juggle at the last minute.
"Here’s our schedule: every night, the same things happen: supper, bathtime, bedtime, in the same order, all timed. Then I go run. This means I run between 7:30 and 9pm every night, but that works for me."
That's also my approach. I'm not running everyday, because I change everyday with my wife with bringing the kids to bed. Sometimes I add the extra run during the lunch break at work or I get some time off as a "present" from my wife. Usually I get 4-5 runs a week done. That's also one of the reasons why started running again, because I had only limited time at certain times of the day and it was no problem to put some running shoes on and use the 30 minutes. Due to the regularity of doing that it became more and more a part of life, I stood up for that more and it was clear to everyone else how important it was for me to go for a run.