I understand and am thankful for all of your concern. I am aware I'm doing a lot of training, but honestly at this point I am really enjoying this, and am making sure I have enough time to do the necessary (i.e. sleep and eat) and am not doing too much for my own personal health.

As I mentioned, not willing to decrease the climb time, as this equates to 'social time' for me and it's really all I get, at twice a week for a few hours at a time. It's one of the few times I get release.

i think maybe the weight routine took a longer time because it was my first time and I had to figure things out... it took some time to fiddle with weights. I am doing 3 sets of 8-12 reps as it is, perhaps I'm taking too much time to do the reps or too much time in between. Hopefully with repeated tries it will get quicker (this time I had to take alot of time to get my machine settings, figure out the weight).

For now I think I am going to try doing one weight day on my wednesday swim class, and take it easy in swim class that day, and then another weight session on friday when i usually don't work out at all. If that doesn't work, the alternating leg/upper body workout sounds great, and I've started doing my runs at lunch time which also helps me cut down on after-work time as well as lets me relieve my mid-day stress .

K.