You actually can bank sleep - as long as you're getting some 1.30 cycles then all sleep counts 1:1 including power napping, lie ins etc.
The only difference might be bodily or in of yourself but in terms of actually getting the benefits of sleep it works 1:1
OP, I’m very similar. I only do 5 am once a week (big workout day, so I need the time to get in a 90 min+ session), but when I do I try to be in bed around 9:15 for a 4:15 alarm. You’re right - I follow the kids to bed, and so I get no downtime that evening. I think my wife actually likes the solo time to sit and read.
But for me, I don’t know that it would be sustainable to do every day. Usually I run on my lunch break, and on weekends at 7am.
To bed by 8-8:30 then up when I wake up at 2-3 AM.
As soon as you had kids, 8 hrs + of sleep went out the window. Come to terms with that and then you will be much better off.
Don't undestand why people are so impatient. If you want to start a family, why not enjoy a full running career and then after you get past PB age then think about having kids? Why do you need to have kids while still in your running prime and then face the dillema of more family time or more running time? Why not focus on running first, and then family afterwards? Then you have all the time in the world for both...
British Guy wrote:
Don't undestand why people are so impatient. If you want to start a family, why not enjoy a full running career and then after you get past PB age then think about having kids? Why do you need to have kids while still in your running prime and then face the dillema of more family time or more running time? Why not focus on running first, and then family afterwards? Then you have all the time in the world for both...
Even when you have kids, you still want to spend time doing other stuff, whether it’s a career, a sport, an interest. You’re going to go insane if you spend every minute of every day focused on your family. There’s nothing wrong with looking for the right balance of personal and family fulfillment, and it has nothing to do with impatience.
British Guy wrote:
Don't undestand why people are so impatient. If you want to start a family, why not enjoy a full running career and then after you get past PB age then think about having kids? Why do you need to have kids while still in your running prime and then face the dillema of more family time or more running time? Why not focus on running first, and then family afterwards? Then you have all the time in the world for both...
Lol, found a poster without kids.
Deshaundae (not a sheep) wrote:
That's none of your fvcking business.
Who cares.
Not early enough. I'm in a bad habit of going to bed too late during the week and sleeping until 7 or 8 on the weekends. I need at least 7.5 to 8 hours to feel rested.
I wake up at 7:30am and go to bed at 11:30pm and run at 5pm except for summer. summer i run at 6:30
clowns everywhere wrote:
Just curious. When I’m training, I need 8 hours of sleep. That is the amount of time I “naturally” sleep on rare days I’m without an alarm. For a 5 am run, I would need to be in bed sleeping at 9 pm, which realistically means getting into bed around 8:50 pm. My kids are usually asleep by 8:30, so I just don’t see how this bedtime works with people who want any time at night with their spouse or to decompress after the kids are in bed. Do you give that up for running?
Better question: what time do you eat your meals if you run at 5am?
10am lunch?! 3 pm dinner?!
I’m so hungry at 10:30 when I run at 7am, can’t imagine earlier.
I'm up by 4:20 am and running by 4:50 am. I'm ready for sleep by 8 pm, but I usually stay up until 10/10:30. I'm often exhausted, but it's the only way I can get a run in with two kids.
My practice is at 6am, so I wake up at 5, and I try to be in bed before 9, but it doesn't always work out that way.
round and round wrote:
clowns everywhere wrote:
Just curious. When I’m training, I need 8 hours of sleep. That is the amount of time I “naturally” sleep on rare days I’m without an alarm. For a 5 am run, I would need to be in bed sleeping at 9 pm, which realistically means getting into bed around 8:50 pm. My kids are usually asleep by 8:30, so I just don’t see how this bedtime works with people who want any time at night with their spouse or to decompress after the kids are in bed. Do you give that up for running?
Better question: what time do you eat your meals if you run at 5am?
10am lunch?! 3 pm dinner?!
I’m so hungry at 10:30 when I run at 7am, can’t imagine earlier.
I eat like two breakfasts. The one after the run and then probably another at 10 a.m. Then lunch at 12:30-1:00 ish.
I wish I could do this. I go to bed at 2am and wake up at 8am. I run after work around 5pm.
It started this bad because I was working late hours at home on the computer. I don't work that late much anymore, but hard to change things. When I wake up, I feel terrible beyond words.
I go to bed around midnight
Most days I can't sleep past four
Aging & insomnia eventually hit us all
So, I don't worry about it much anymore
I have my alarm set for 4:50 am, and I am usually out the door running between 5:30-5:40. I recently started a bedtime routine because I am old and boring. I try to get my kids to bed as early as possible. I shoot for 8:00, but realistically it's 8:30-8:45. I turn my screens off at 9:00 pm, take a melatonin, read until 9:30, then it's lights out.