The way our coach has our itinerary set up, we're all looking at getting 7 hours max if everything goes perfectly, but realistically about 6.5-6 hours to get up at 5:30 for an 8AM race. Is this enough sleep?
The way our coach has our itinerary set up, we're all looking at getting 7 hours max if everything goes perfectly, but realistically about 6.5-6 hours to get up at 5:30 for an 8AM race. Is this enough sleep?
Yes. Steve Jones once broke the half marathon WR with even less sleep than that. He also had a lot of alcohol on the night before. Sleep is overrated.
If you really think that let me give you this L my nibba. 6.5 hours is enough if it's just the day before a race. As long as you're getting good sleep all through the week and just in general, the day before a race doesn't matter too much.
I agree with RejectRunner. If you're well rested beforehand, 6.5 before the race is just fine. It's better to get up earlier and sacrifice sleep for an early morning race. If you were talking about 6.5 or less every night for the week, that would be detrimental.
Yes, sleep is overrated the night before a race, however the previous few days matter more. If you are racing on "Pure Hate" a few days of insomnia before the race will enhance the ability to channel the "Pure Hate" performance.
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RejectRunner wrote:
If you really think that let me give you this L my nibba. 6.5 hours is enough if it's just the day before a race. As long as you're getting good sleep all through the week and just in general, the day before a race doesn't matter too much.
Just want to second this.
Agreed. Just make sure you're caught up on sleep the week leading up to the race, ideally in a rhythm where getting up early for the race won't be too brutal. 6.5 the night before sounds great.
The benefits of sleep are cumulative, as are the detriments of deprivation.
As you long as you get enough sleep overall, one bad night preceding a race shouldn't hurt you. Adrenalin will take over on race day. Excitement and race nerves always kept me up the night before races anyway, and I ran some of my best times on as little as 4 hours sleep.
Never seen so many on letsrun agree.
8-10 hours every night should be standard. One night is no biggie as long as you have consistent sleep going in.
RejectRunner wrote:
If you really think that let me give you this L my nibba. 6.5 hours is enough if it's just the day before a race. As long as you're getting good sleep all through the week and just in general, the day before a race doesn't matter too much.
Further agreement. I've run some of my best races off 5-6 hours the night before. The 2-4 nights before that are the ones that matter.
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