Fitting it all in...

[tribogota]

My LIMIT is to train 10 hours a week for anything and every type of race, sprint to HIM, some weeks are 12, some are 8, so they average 10, when I have several weeks in a row of 10+ I am wiped out and unable to work or train well, thus the conscious limiting to 10 hours. (am 39 and 10/12ths)
Unless you are a full time athlete with time to take naps in the afternoon and thus get more than 8 hours of sleep, I don't recommend too much training. On vacation, I DO train more, but I also take a nap everyday and don't do a whole lot else, no laundry folding, food shopping, class prepping, commuting...so I am not too tired. Life is a lot of work physically and training too much is draining instead of invigorating.

[zoom-zoom]

Yep, I think I'm going to scale back my running mileage goal from 1500 miles to 2000km (1243mi., heh), which amounts to about 24 miles/week on my feet, instead of 29. That will cut about an hour of training/week, right there. It will also make it easy to fit a rest day in every week, which I really think I will need. I don't know how people streak. My best friend did it with running for a while and ended up injured.