Re:IT Schedule and after-work exercise... (Score 1)

I bike and run at night. I find it to be safer than during the weekday or evening, because there's less traffic. I started biking to work, since traffic was so bad, and I made it to work and back almost as fast as driving (16 miles each way). I then took up running at night, then swimming during the evenings. I started lifting weights a little bit too. I lost 50 lbs in about 9 months, then did my first sprint triathlon, then did a half-ironman in 15 months, and did pretty well.

To make a long story short, I wound up qualifying for and competing in the Hawaii Ironman last year, which was really the thrill of a lifetime. I've never had throngs of people cheer me on to write code.

I still get to write a lot of software, but I don't play computer games, watch TV, or waste time. I bike everywhere. I never drive if I can help it.

And I still crush ungodly quantities of code at high quality.

Sure beats the long night sessions of Unreal Tournament....