r.u.i wrote:
First!: warm coffee (slowly sip untill you feel warm and content). Second: after you are nice and warm get a large glass of ice...fill it with Diet Mountain Dew and Red Bull...*DO NOT DRINK IT YET*...you need to first get a 10-20 mg pill of ritalin (methlyphenidate), now wash the pill down with your cold beverage. Drink slow while enjoying some literature...may I suggest "A Clockwork Orange", or "Runner's World", or your local news paper. Wait about 1-2 hours after this "breakfast" untill you begin your strides. You will have a beautiful run.
Weird, you just described my Monday morning...seriously. I couldn't sleep, so I had this strange idea to watch "A Clockwork Orange" at about 1am. I guess that's just the sort of movie for that time of night. At the same time, I read some of the November "Runner's World" article about the trials. Of course I drink coffee all day, both regular and decaf. So I was drinking decaf coffee, but still couldn't sleep. Then I figured I might as well have a Redbull because that's just the sort of thing you do while watching "A Clockwork Orange" at 1 in the morning and you can't sleep anyway. By then it was 2:00 though. Now I don't take ritalin, but I did take an Advil from to treat the Redbull/Beethoven's 9th Symphony induced headache I had. Caffeine strangely makes me sleepy right after I drink it, so I soon finally fell asleep and dreamed some very strange dreams. Luckily, I did not have class Monday, but I felt wonderful when I worked out.