Napping to work.

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15 years ago 06/30/2008 2:23pm EDT

Ok, so I average 80mile+ in my summer mileage season, and I am wondering if I am the only one who needs to take a Nap midway through the day to be able to work a 8 hour day.

I do this during the school year as well, take naps that is, but as a student it is far more culutrally acceptable to passout basicly wherever you want to. I am a coffee drinker, not more than 2 cups a day usually, but I still feel sleep catching up to me despite having slept a steady 8 hours at night. I am trying to gauge what other people do/think about the subject of naps.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 2:26pm EDT

re: runner_pucci

Dude I do 100 mpw and I don't take naps. Just LetsRun Breaks.

If you have coffee at 10:30 - 11, you'll be set for the day.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 2:39pm EDT

re: ?huh

In jobs I have worked at some people can talk the day away and the boss will do nothing. However a nap would get you fired quick.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 2:47pm EDT

re: just a runner

if you're tired, drinking coffee doesn't help you in the long run, it just makes you MORE tired later. it's the health equivalent of running a balance on your credit card. eventually, you'll bottom out, and it won't be pleasant.

i took naps at work EVERY DAY and, as i was forthcoming about it, did it on my lunch break, and did it in relative privacy (hoteling offices), my employers had no problem with it. if you know your office well enough, you'll find a place where you can nap and not be bothered.

i do recommend an alarm clock, though. i used my ipod and earplug headphones (not active noise canceling); they blocked out most noise so i could get to sleep, then the iPod alarm i set would wake me up in time for a quick lunch and back to work.

it's good for your health, especially good for you if you run doubles, and it helps (psychologically) break the workday up into two more easily tolerable periods.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 2:53pm EDT

re: letsrunconsious

Yeah, I do double runs most days and find the nap especially necessary than to be fully awake.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 4:27pm EDT

re: runner_pucci

this is why you keep drinking coffee all day, then bottom out when its time for bed. You're awake and jittery all day like you just snorted crack and eventually pass out to the best sleep of your life.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 4:42pm EDT

re: runner_pucci

Most likely - yes.You're talking to the wrong group. People on here run 150 miles a week, work 80 hours a week, make $500K a year, drink a dozen beers four nights a week, hook-up with a different girl each night, and do all of this on 3 hours a night sleep and without drinking any coffee during the day becuase cofee is bad for you.

runner_pucci wrote:I am wondering if I am the only one who needs to take a Nap midway through the day to be able to work a 8 hour day.

15 years ago 06/30/2008 8:35pm EDT

re: runner_pucci

Napping at work can be done, if no other place, in a stall in the bathroom.

Most employers frown on it, but it does increase productivity.

In most of the world, people take a nap after lunch. Even some developed OECD nations. I personally think it is programmed into us, and encourage my employees to sleep for 20 if they are crashing out.

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