Yes @Poet - sorry!
Yes. But not on a public forum 
Social engineering and all that jazz.
I’m not doing D5 work like some people up in Barrow 
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Midland, Griffin Savers Dept
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Royston Vasey local bank for local people.
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48, soon to be 49. Married with two teenagers, 16 and 14. We both work full time so during the week it’s training before work, which means evenings are free for family stuff. Usually get a 90 minute session in on Saturday morning after a (relative) lie-in. I can get out for a 3 hour ride on Sunday but always aim to be back by 11 at the latest. I’ve always done something sporty since we’ve been together so I guess it’s always been part of our family dynamic, just as long as I don’t take the p**s. Definitely easier now the kids are a bit older and more independent, although the oldest is playing squash to a pretty high standard so I’m often ferrying him around to comps and training, but I love watching him play a sport that I’ve never played and know very little about and can sometimes squeeze in a run between matches.
I started blogging on the old TT site and quite enjoyed the community on there and got to know a few TTers in real life through it. Still have a blog running but not updated very frequently, just when I feel like it. I write it for me just as a record of what I’ve done.
49, no kids and live with the GF and no mortgage. Work at the local uni 5 miles away, so not much use for a cycling commute, could run but the GF doesn’t drive so I give her a lift as she works about half a mile away. If she’s off for any reason I sometimes run in.
As with GB, pretty flexible working, I’m usually in around 7:30 to beat the traffic, can have 2 hours if I want for dinner and there’s office cover, just need to get the hours in. Although as I work in IT I also work on evenings\weekends if required and if there’s downtime etc. we generally stay until it’s fixed, so there’s flexibility both ways as a result. So I can do a short ride or run as well, means I get out in daylight over winter. (and after 23 years there Middlesbrough gets a bit tedious 
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There’s a gym at work, although not great but I’m also a member of a gym 2 miles away where I can get a decent swim in and still be back in 90 minutes at dinnertime. Also have perks like free massages when the students are here 
Rach doesn’t do much activity for health reasons and ever since she’s known me I’ve always done a lot of sport, before running\tri’s I played football on a Saturday\Sunday and during the week so she’s been used to me going missing.
But, I do feel guilty if I’m doing IM training and disappear for long hours on a weekend so if she says she wants to go out somewhere I work around that.
So fairly time rich, and the job pays decent money for the NE, but it would be difficult to find a similar level job round here. I’d like to think I can retire around 60 but not if I keep entering Ironman races and marathon’s abroad.
I’m in a few local clubs but the running club although not big is really good, a lot of us know each other from tri\cycling clubs as well but as there’s only about 170 members there’s a great club friendship.
Can also be on the North York Moors in about 20-30 minutes for excellent running or cycling and peace and quiet
Jeff
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I mean, I know there’s a north south divide on the terminology of eating (outside of breakfast), but it appears you’ve used the same words for both main meals of the day here?! No wonder foreigners get confused!
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I think he’s still talking about a cheeky swim during the working day (guv’nah)
Ha, for the avoidance of doubt and being a northerner.
Dinner\dinnertime = 12-2pm
Tea\teatime = 4-7pm (ish) after that and it’s suppertime for me!
I don’t really use the term lunch\lunchtime but it would also be roughly 12-2pm
The English language can be really confusing, if you actually search for dinner\dinnertime it does say it can be used for either the mid-day period, or evening!
But, yes, I can do a 2-2.4k swim during the day, and the pool is usually emptier than the evening period.
Jeff
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I am a southerner. I use dinner / tea interchangeably for the last meal of the day, regardless of time.
Lunch is lunch, I go early usually around 12-12:30. But again its the middle meal, rather than a timeframe.
46, married, 3 teenagers. I work 4 days per week as a GP. Those days are quite long and sedentary but a short run swim or turbo is the perfect antidote. And that’s why I still do Tri really, rather than having a huge desire to compete.
Every now and again I think about entering a big race, but get just as much pleasure from a park run or my towns 2 sprint tris, so do those instead
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I knew you were a bit of a banker @Poet
… (someone had to! )
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Surely 2.5 days a week now that everyone can diagnose on Google?
37, 1 partner, part-time parent to partners 2 kids. A job between Warrington and West Cumbria - that kind of narrows it.
In the dim distant past, when I joined this forum, I was single, living in the Loire valley and being paid to breathe as an expat. It allowed me to have a full-time job, study a masters degree, manage a division 1 tri team, and do my own racing. I realise now that that full-time job was not real life. Much as I like to pretend that it was. 5 years ago I gave that all up and moved to the NW and consulting engineering lifestyle took hold and the reality of damp, dark winters set in. I tried to cling on to the fitness with an ultra and a couple of marathons in the first 18 months I lived here but that all faded away quite quickly.
Now it’s just a few runs a week and strength/stretch programme in the little hotel gym a couple of nights a week to patch up injuries and avoid injuries in the future. Still searching for the elusive job where I’m not away from home 2-3 nights a week, every week. I’d like to aspire to a 70.3 again, a marathon still feels in reach but I’ll let you know next year how that goes.
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Ulverston? Nice.
Popular thread this… my tuppeny’s worth…
45, work in The City, got into Tri in 2010 after a couple of years career break working/studying in the alps. 2 teenagers from a previous relationship and 2 little ones with my wife. 4 busy boys. Did my one and done Ironman TM in 2012 just before #3 was born. I knew it might be the best opportunity to get it in the bag and so it proved. Have done a triathlon of some description maybe only once every other year since. I have a 1 hr commute but I can fit running around that, cycling too but generally only in summer with longer daylight hours. Swim periodically with a masters group.
I’m still pretty competitive and vainly searching new running pbs but I’m also aware that training is also good ‘headspace’ time for me and just enjoy being out running and occasionally cycling in the great outdoors. Particularly enjoy running when I go on holiday, often in the alps. I don’t seem to have the motivation to turbo train anymore but maybe that’s because I’m only focused on running events.
I’ve now got 2 boys playing football, one tennis and swimming and the little fella has classes galore so, although I run for a club, I’m rarely spotted at events these days… running to someone else’s schedule just doesn’t work as well as a start/finish at the front door…
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My guess was Barrow.
Really? 
Ha
“How many people work at your office?”
“About half of them”
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as many as that