I've been really busy of late; I started a "real" job a month ago and so I have an actual office to go to 5 days a week! It's been 2 or 3 years since that was the case, so it's quite an adjustment. The steady income, however, is pretty darn nice so I'm not really complaining. I'm just having to shift around how I get things done.
I'm doing my best to integrate training time into the job and it's going really well so far. The Swiss are great about providing shower facilities and recognizing the value of giving staff time to exercise in the day. It's working out really well. I can bike into work more quickly than I could commute by train; my record is about 30 minutes from door to door. There are great options for extending the morning ride, with trails and climbs at the beginning and end of my commute, so I can be flexible based on my schedule, the weather, how I'm feeling, etc. The same goes for the ride home, too, so at a minimum I get 60-90 minutes of riding in each day. Over lunch, I go for a run on the copious trail system on Zurich's West end.
A minor setback for me: I strained my groin muscle playing soccer (football as they call it here) over lunch a few weeks back and that's been keeping my lunch-time activity to around 45 minutes or less. I'm slowly healing, though, and it won't be long before I can maybe log a 90 run over lunch each day. I haven't played soccer in many years and it was fun to get out again -- I was just over zealous with my return, and, of course, tweaked a muscle in the process.
Maybe I'm just getting old? A real 5-day a week job . . . a muscle strain while running around at lunch . . . what's next?