whats your Crazy Training times ?

4am daily wow ? why so early and do you go to bed at 7pm ?

I got up at 4:06 the morning of my Ironman race, does that count?

Seriously, I've often thought if I had young kids or a busy personal/social life, or a super time demanding job, I'd never do triathlon. I can workout during lunch, don't have anywhere in particular to be most evenings, and have hours on end over the weekend to swim/bike/run.

I usually go to the velodrome on Wednesday and Friday evenings in the fall, winter and early spring. Friday nights there is racing for A,B,C groups with each group getting at least 3 races starting at 7pm, so it can be done anywhere between 8:30pm-10pm depending on the races. Often times I ride home after that which takes about 45 minutes, and sometimes we stop for food on the way home, so it isn't unusual for me to be riding at 11pm.

I don't really do early mornings though.

I like sleep, so my worst workout was many years ago.  10PM to 2AM run.  Pushed it too hard, had a terrible crash, brought on a nasty case of tendonitis in my right big toe AND got pulled over afterwards for having a the light out on my licence plate (probably wondering what kind of trouble I was getting into at 2am in the park).  30 minutes of pure sugar crash while they ran my licence. 

I work nights and am up for a trainer ride at 4am with my wife. So I get about 3.5 hours of sleep. Then I shower, go to bed, get the boy off to school do another workout and take a small nap again before work.

I use to work graveyard shift and would come home and run each day. The get the boy to school, go to bed or swim then bed, get up and do a ride and run. Then be ready for the fam to be home for the night. I liked those days.

I used to get up by 4:30  on Sat mornings to do a long run.. and in the neighborhood there was this car driving around. It freaked me out. Till I realized it was the paper deliverer... 

Also not a morning person. Though I do the occasional 5 AM run or trainer ride if I know I won't be able to train after work, and I try to hit the road at first light (5:40 to 6:00-ish) for my long brick on Sundays, that's normal by BT standards. My specialty is seamless transition from work to workout. On the days that I coach, five minutes before the end of the school day, I leave my students with an assistant, change into swimsuit and coaching clothes, then head down to the pool.  As soon as the last swimmer has cleared the pool, off come the clothes and I'm in the water--thirty seconds max from coach to athlete. I've been known to come to staff meetings with swimsuit underneath my clothes, and be in the pool within less than a minute after the meeting ends. My pool time's very limited, so I really try to maximize it. I've also been out running around our school fields within five minutes of a meeting. We have a lot of people who work out at our school, so I don't get as many odd looks as I would elsewhere.

Not tri training, but a couple of times I did a morning and evening run on two different continents (AM in China or Vietnam, and PM in the US or Canada) just because I could.