Jimmy Grabow runs at 4:30am. When do run?

1st run: 3:30 AM

2nd run: 12:30 PM

3rd run: 7:30 PM

Bed at 8:20-30

Monday toFriday :4.20am-4:50am. Saturday and Sunday 5 am.

Someone had to do it may simply be omitting a few minor things that he does each morning such as surfing the web. I generally wake up at 5 AM, prepare my coffee, take a dump, and then read Letsrun, online newspapers, NPR, CNN, etc. until about 6:45 when I leave for my run. I go for approximately an hour each day. I then prepare and eat breakfast, take a shower, get dressed and, by this time, it is 9:10 and I leave for my 9:30 class (This is 4 hours and 10 minutes between waking up and leaving my house).

dfrerfgrfgfv wrote:

5am before work at 7, run again after work at 3. College kids who can sleep in until 8 or 9 live it up. It isn't going to last, oh those were the days.

College kids live it up? You are off work and ready to run by 3 in the afternoon.

A lot of people must have dick time management or are just pansies. There is no reason to wake up 3 hours before work just to run, unless your running + commute time equals two and a half hours. Hit the road within 10 mins of rolling out of bed. Run, shower, eat, dress. What else do you need?

I start my run at 5AM weekdays and 6AM weekends. Certainly not for pleasure, it's the only available time I have(although it's nice watching the sun rise).I attach LEDs to my sneakers to see & to alert the drivers. It's not conducive to full effort runs.

dfrerfgrfgfv wrote:

5am before work at 7, run again after work at 3. College kids who can sleep in until 8 or 9 live it up. It isn't going to last, oh those were the days.

Getting done with work at 3 to start afternoon run sounds pretty sweet to me.

someone had to do it wrote:

5:00 AM for me

I do 30-50 mins in the morning, but i do 10 mins of dynamic exercises because i'm usually stiff at that hour and it's cold out

i have class at 9 am currently.

i shower right after waking up, hate the feeling of doing anything without showering first, and then of course showering after the run. plus i do some foam rolling after too. cooking and eating breakfast, taking a sh!t, getting dressed, brushing teeth, etc. takes up time.

i leave home at 8:30, so my morning routine including my run takes about 3 1/2 hours not including the commute

trying to avoid taking 8 am classes at all costs, really don't wanna wake up at 4 am. having to go to bed at 9pm already killed my social life lol, i don't wanna be going to bed at 8!

You need tips on being Awesome

Wake up at 5. Give myself 20-30 mins to get up, get belongings together, that's 5:30. Then drive to the trails to run as my neighborhood is outrageously hilly. So, maybe there by 5:45-6. Only really have time to run 30-40 mins as the difference between being on the road at 6:45 vs 7:00 is the difference in a 25 min commute vs 45-50. So, drive towards work, shower and clean up at a gym much closer to work. Grab breakfast, at work by about 7:45 when I have to show up by 8. That's just life, and needless to say I have to run workouts after work and double more days to boost mileage.

might be wejo wrote:

A lot of people must have dick time management or are just pansies. There is no reason to wake up 3 hours before work just to run, unless your running + commute time equals two and a half hours. Hit the road within 10 mins of rolling out of bed. Run, shower, eat, dress. What else do you need?

The tone of your post makes it seem as though I dislike getting up this early and am forced to do so to "squeeze" everything in. This could not be further from the truth. I enjoy the morning and view it as my leisure time. My post implied as much (over 100 minutes dedicated to sitting around on the computer). You have 'dick' comprehension or are just an idiot.

i run at 9-10 at night. Kids usually let me go to bed at around 1 but i DO wake up at 4, but thats to feed my daughter then wake up at 6 for work. So i technically wake up at 4. Does that count for any brownie points?

lol @ everyone calling me crazy

i don't like to rush in the morning, I like to take my time.

I didn't mention a few things, like the time it takes me to drive to where I do my morning run + the time it takes to drive back + watching morning news, checking email, etc.

i wake up @ 5am and leave for school at 8:30

that is 3 and a half hours. when my morning run takes almost an hour + stretching before & after + everything else I already said, it is not that hard to fill 3 and a half hours.

but most people on here I'm sure are rushing to do everything, while I'm just taking it easy in the morning

Grabow has been Alberto Salazaring his veins for many years and should do well.

america, f**k yeah wrote:

I get up at 5:15 or 5:30 and get out the door within 25 minutes. One thing that helps me with the poop ordeal: I get in a routine of dropping a load as soon as I get up, and then again after getting dressed right before I leave. Don't understand how it works, but when you work on it your body can get into a rhythm like that.

You shit twice before leaving for work?!?!? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Does anyone else have a hard time cooling down after the run so that you don't come out of the shower still sweating? Obviously I refuse to take a cold shower.

Neil Jung wrote:

america, f**k yeah wrote:

I get up at 5:15 or 5:30 and get out the door within 25 minutes. One thing that helps me with the poop ordeal: I get in a routine of dropping a load as soon as I get up, and then again after getting dressed right before I leave. Don't understand how it works, but when you work on it your body can get into a rhythm like that.

You shit twice before leaving for work?!?!? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Does anyone else have a hard time cooling down after the run so that you don't come out of the shower still sweating? Obviously I refuse to take a cold shower.

Someone likes boiling hot showers.

might be wejo wrote:

A lot of people must have dick time management or are just pansies. There is no reason to wake up 3 hours before work just to run, unless your running + commute time equals two and a half hours. Hit the road within 10 mins of rolling out of bed. Run, shower, eat, dress. What else do you need?

True that. If I have a 45 minute run I wake up 1:05 before I leave the house. If I have a 30 minute run I wake up 50 minutes before I leave the house.

And even that much time is superfluous, but I like to surf the net while eating breakfast.

Woops, did I just spoil the secret of 'multitasking'?!

This is a crazy thread, bros.

Jimmy should be starting the Chicago Marathon in 3 minutes. Afterall, HE RUNS AT 4:30. Everyone else will begin at 7:30

You guys think you've got it tough?

When I was a youngster we had to live in rolled up newspaper. Me father would beat us for 'alf an hour before we went to bed at midnight. Then we'd get up at ten o'clock, two hours before we went to bed, to muck the stables and then we had to run 40 miles to school and then 40 miles back. Only got home at eleven o'clock at night.

Jimmy Grabow: what a feline vagina!

someone had to do it wrote:

lol @ everyone calling me crazy

i don't like to rush in the morning, I like to take my time.

but most people on here I'm sure are rushing to do everything, while I'm just taking it easy in the morning

EXACTLY. I have been getting up as early as 3am to do my running for years. It's fantastic because you can piss away your time doing whatever you want before *anyone* can tell you what to do with your time (kids, spouse, work). What you do during those hours is truly your choice. Once you're an adult, and you've experienced the demands other people place on your time, you will understand better how valuable a schedule like this can be. Anyone with a family who has ever tried to get in a run after getting home from a job knows what kinds of conflicts arise from trying to make that work. Coming to bed after your spouse is a problem in a lot of marriages, too, and staying up late when you have to work at 8am will ultimately fail. Getting out of bed at ass o'clock is the solution to all of these problems.