Business development for a Spanish owned bank. No travel, no F2F, all phone/Teams. Not overly stressful, bit pretty full on all day.
Currently home based full time, soon going back to the office 1 day per week. Hours are 9-5 3 days, 9-6 2 days.
I try to use the old commute time for bike or swim, and run at lunch time.
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Commute time is now taken up with walking a couple of the dogs and breakfast! Lunch, same. They don’t all get walked at the same time.
I used to have no issue fitting it all in before work when i was in the office. I think the big difference is that I commuted by bus, so had a nap on the way in and home. This probably added an extra hour of sleep every day.
Pre covid we only had a couple of dogs so there wasn’t so much walking etc required.
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I’m not a dog owner so, can the dogs run with you? Who would walk the dogs if you were in the office?
I’ve tried turbo training while on long conference calls but I gave that up, it’s only worth doing if do are being forced to attend pointless calls you don’t take part in.
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The dogs are little Chihuahuas so running with them is not an option sadly. I would walk a couple of them before going in, not sure what we’ll do going forward, never had to think about it before.
The wife is part time, so has more time. I just like making sure I’m doing my bit.
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Agree. And nothing more than Z2 else I can’t even pretend to be listening.
I’ve a similar problem to you. I do the occasional TrainerRoad 1h lunchtime session but otherwise I’m an early morning weekend warrior.
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Yeah i do a lunch time zwift or lift. Never been on a call and done it though.
Not a fan of evening training so usually its mornings.
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I tend to be an early riser and am happy on 7hrs sleep a night (generally 11 - 6 or 6:30)
Mostly, I’m lucky enough to be able to organise my time to do a short ride at lunchtime; if my work gets busy I head out early instead (c6:30-7am). At the moment I’m being paid for 4 days a week so have flexibility to do a morning ride of 50ish miles on a Friday, which is great.
The only obvious option I can see is to find a way to either develop the walks into training sessions or get someone else to walk the dogs.
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You must have excellent time management, what about on your days off? I generally struggle to exercise as soon as I get up, I’m usually up at least an hour before a parkrun and that is pushing it.
Can’t believe you find time for a bath as well, usually a quick shower for me. I do usually get up around 7 though and I’m usually in bed about 10 with the aim of getting 8-9 hours, until my bladder decides it wants up 
Don’t watch a great deal of TV, but generally exercise in the evening and sometimes on a dinner time.
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Nah, just a really boring life!
And it’s 2 baths, one at each end of the day😀 one of life’s two main pleasures I find, the other being malted and fermented.
I have gradually cut out all the stuff I didn’t like doing like commuting, going to the shops etc. So other than the things mentioned above, don’t really do anything much.
Days off are a bit more freeform but DIY or something family based usually takes the place of work.
Anyway it’s all change soon😳
Good luck on your travels and racing, will be watching the Strava feed closely 
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Two baths a day? Clearly not on a water meter then
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Looking at Garmin stats, I seem to average 7 hours sleep a night, 50/50 light and deep.
When was ill with Covid the last 2 weeks, it was 8-9 hours a night plus napping during the day.
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Woke up this AM after the most insanely detailed dream about going into a fast food place and ordering some fried chicken.
Do I need more protein in my diet lol
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Nightmares and 5hrs sleep for me 
Not much sleep for me. I can only sleep about 10 mins at a time on my right side (because of the broken ribs that didn’t knit), so anything painful on the left is a real issue.
Guess which side my problem tooth is 
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Red eye flight and going to try and hang on until 8pm’ish!
I hate sleep deprivation 
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I said I’d update on my wife’s CBT. After 3 sessions, it’s opened a couple of big cans of worms that look like the underlying causes of her anxiety.
It remains to be seen whether those worms fester or get fed to the blackbirds!
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Woke up at 5am with a bit of a nightmare and didn’t get back to sleep so really struggling today, body is obviously still trying to get back into a routine. I was in bed just after 9 as well.
When I’m tired like this it really affects me cognitively and I feel really clumsy!
Supposed to be at a wedding reception tomorrow night but I think I’ll drive and not stay that late.
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Anyone interested in doing the UK sleep census for Oxford Uni?
Don’t worry, I think you can put your real weight and not your Zwift weight on
BBC Two - Horizon - The UK Sleep Census
Edit: my sleep score was 5.8 which was average, I personally think it is a bit better than that but a few of the questions were vague. It also says I am an intermediate person, e.g. not a lark or a night owl, which I pretty much knew.
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That took a little while, reckon it would help get you off if suffering from insomnia.
Sleep score 8.9, Chronotype 16 here whatever that means
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