More Time?

    I find myself actually stressing that I am unable to workout as hard and as long as I would like. In a perfect world I would have 2 to 3 hours every day to devote strictly to training. This would give me time for strength training as well as focused, sport specific workouts. I would be able to incorporate more bricks into my schedule, doing two or more of the disciplines, back to back, for epic workouts. I want to train harder, to expend more of my energies, pay my pound of flesh, devote more of my spirit to constant improvement. I was once told that I had what it takes to be a competitive triathlete, and it wasn't empty flattery. Granted, I will likely never be a top finisher in an Ironman, but I think I definitely have the potential to be the top finisher in my age bracket in triathlons. But to get there takes hard work, time, sweat. In a perfect world I would have time each week for one long ride, one long run, and one open water swim. Long rides, runs and swims are exactly that: Long. Meaning hours spent. At least 2 to 3 hours for a run, 3 to 6 hours for a ride, and 2+ hours for a swim. That is a lot of damned hours. That doesn't even factor in the hours needed for speedplay, hill repeats, sprints, etc. And it sure doesn't factor in even more time for strength training and core/ab work. Dear gods, it could be a full time job to workout as hard as I would like to. Now that would be the perfect world, pay me to workout. I have dreamed of that, if you must know. And I do try to think of ways to make that become a reality, or at least a partial reality. I guess if I decided to forego having anything remotely resembling a real life, I could spend evenings diligently working out. That would give me 3 to 4 hours every day. But I am not quite so obsessed as to be able to make myself sever my connections with the real world in order to become the uber-athlete of my dreams. There is more to life than competing and setting personal records. If I could figure out how to do without sleep, then I would finally have enough hours in a day, well almost enough, anyway. But sleeplessness is not an option, I went down that road last winter and had a nervous breakdown, and nearly packed myself off to a mental ward for a psych eval. So, I know all too well the side effects of no sleep, not an option if I want to maintain my tenuous grip on sanity.
    So, back to my obsession. How do I manage to increase my workouts? Where do I find more time? I am already working hard on quality over quantity. I avoid "junk miles," those runs/swims/rides when you are just slogging away for the sake of slogging away. I have incorporated more speedplay in all the disciplines to increase my strength, speed and stamina in as few hours as possible. But damn, I just wish I had more time. I need sponsors. Or a patron. I need more time.