Work/life balance

Posted February 11th, 2010 by Rupert Baddeley

When I joined the team I always knew that mixing training with work and family would be difficult, and the last two weeks have proved themselves particularly so. Presently I’m working away from home during the week on a challenging piece of client work that is leaving little free time for physical training – this imbalance is unlikely to change much before the end of March so the alarm clock is now going off at 5:30am! Consequently, weekends are spent catching up with the family and sleeping lots, but at least it’s 48 hours of quality time.

I’m rather excited also, because I’ve been asked to speak to a Year 2 group at a friend’s school. The children have been learning about ice this term and I’m going to talk to them about Antarctica. Giving back to the community in this way is one of our team’s core values and I hope to be doing more of this in the coming months and more so after the expedition.

Rupert