Originally Posted by
Quiglesnbits
Thanks for your input. I’m currently consistently getting 3 weekday rides of about 1:00 to 1:15, and a longer weekend ride of 2:00-3:00. Occasionally ill squeeze in an extra hour or so on the other weekend day. Five hours is pretty standard, ranging up to 7. My wife rides but is uncomfortable on the roads and much prefers the peloton in the basement. Longer term we’ve discussed trying mountain biking which i grew up with but she did not. We of course both have lofty goals to continue pursuits that we both enjoy, and she supports my hobbies. We’ve really talked about taking it one day at a time, finding 20-30 minutes to get the legs moving, and just seeing how things normalize.
It's all about prioritising. Your schedule will keep on changing over the coming weeks, months and years and you just have to adapt and prioritise. We basically gave up watching TV, which freed up a load of time. We did continue cycling and skiing, although the timing schedules changed along the way. I'm now very much in the "taxi" driver stage as seypat put it. Someone has to be taken somewhere pretty much all the time and walking/cycling is not an option where we live. One teen and one pre-teen is proving to be very time-consuming for us. I've even had to give up work in recent years.