The longer road to Ironman

I find that my life right now is dominated by sleep (or more accurately, the lack of sleep). Most days I am totally fine and feel great, but working nights and training for IM is not easy. There are weeks were we train for 5-6 hours Saturday then I take a few hour nap and go to work for 12 hours only to go straight from work to our Sunday workout where we will do another 5-6 hours. Then I rush home for a quick nap and back to another 12 hour shift. Actually, that just isn't happening anymore. It worked fine when we were doing 3-4 hour workouts but it is just too hard now. I have even started to miss Wednesday workouts on occasion because after work on Wednesday morning I need to run my errands and I don't get to bed until 4 or so and then trying to drag myself out of bed for a 6:30 track or swim workout just doesn't happen.

This has been real struggle for me over the past few weeks and I have finally resolved to fix this problem once and for all. I will now just skip the Sunday team workouts if I worked the night before. I'll do a quick shorter on my own workout before bed. I will force myself to get an earlier Wednesday nap so I can be sure to be up for the Wednesday workout and I will need to up my training volume on my off days of Thursday and Friday to balance the drop in volume from going light on Sundays. It's a bit harder to do long workouts alone but I have done it before and will do it again. If I don't pull things together quick then I will be too far behind to be ready by August. I only have 4 months left!!! It is still enough time but barely.