When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.
A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.
Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.
I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.
For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.