I have 3 weeks of winter break and it sounds kinda fun (I live in a place that currently isn't going below 40 degrees at night).
Basically stay up and do a run at 2-5 am, come back and sleep through the morning then get up and go do another run in the afternoon and then repeat. Thoughts? Anyone tried this? The only thing is it might screw up my sleeping schedule if I have to get up early for something else...
Last summer I would run at about 9pm, then stay awake until 2-3am and do another run. Then I'd sleep from ~7am till 6pm. Yes 11 hours. Then repeat. That was the SUMMER though, when it was 100 degrees in the day, so I was avoiding the heat.
In high school I was spending spring break with some members of the track team. Some of the girls decided to go running at midnight so they wouldn't have to run the next day (they were not as fond of running as I was). They invited me to go along, so I did. I had a fun time and did ten the next morning by myself. Of course you probably had real running in mind more than tooling around on a token four miler on the beach with a bunch of giggling girls.
Two things to be careful about - 1) if you wait until late to go, you might not feel like going, 2) you might have trouble going to bed right after sleeping.
Best of luck whatever you decide to do.
i've been doing that the past three weeks. start between 4-5:30. finish around 6:30 then eat breakfast at 7, shower then asleep by 8. I usually wake up around 1 or 2 just to get a little sunshine though and start my day/night.
I got in the habit of training at odd hours. I wouldn't follow ian edwards' training because he was in extreme conditions and opted to forego a regular life.
I would recommend running at 2 pm and again at midnight. I personally wouldn't feel exhausted until 2-3 hours after the run, thus my reason for choosing midnight. I would also have a post-run snack! Going to bed at 3 am is far more reasonable then going to bed when the sun is rising.
Also be careful when running late. Numerous hazards exist: drunk drivers, dumb teenagers, etc.
I was logging 90 mpw and sleeping from ~3 am - 11 am.
Good luck!
P.S. The police officers in your town will definitely give you problems. At least they did for me.
Chairman Wow wrote:
In high school I was spending spring break with some members of the track team. Some of the girls decided to go running at midnight so they wouldn't have to run the next day (they were not as fond of running as I was). They invited me to go along, so I did. I had a fun time and did ten the next morning by myself. Of course you probably had real running in mind more than tooling around on a token four miler on the beach with a bunch of giggling girls.
Two things to be careful about - 1) if you wait until late to go, you might not feel like going, 2) you might have trouble going to bed right after sleeping.
Best of luck whatever you decide to do.
I hope you f***ed them
ian edwards wrote:
Last summer I would run at about 9pm, then stay awake until 2-3am and do another run. Then I'd sleep from ~7am till 6pm. Yes 11 hours. Then repeat. That was the SUMMER though, when it was 100 degrees in the day, so I was avoiding the heat.
It must be nice not to have to worry about a summer job schedule.
Chairman Wow wrote:
Of course you probably had real running in mind more than tooling around on a token four miler on the beach with a bunch of giggling girls.
Only on letsrun would this be a tough choice for a guy ;)
I hate running at night. I think I am running 30 seconds per mile than I actually am.
I would occasionally do something like that if my work schedule required me to get home late (say 2-3am or something like that). Instead of going to bed at 2am and getting up at 6am for my regular run, I would just run at 2am and then sleep a few hours before going to work.
Why not run at 10am and again at like 8 or 9 pm?
Say word wrote:
ian edwards wrote:Last summer I would run at about 9pm, then stay awake until 2-3am and do another run. Then I'd sleep from ~7am till 6pm. Yes 11 hours. Then repeat. That was the SUMMER though, when it was 100 degrees in the day, so I was avoiding the heat.
It must be nice not to have to worry about a summer job schedule.
I did that in high school, so I didn't need a summer job. I also didn't have a car, or cell phone...
You make it seem like I'm "well-off" or something, when it was the opposite.
The Biggest Boss wrote:
P.S. The police officers in your town will definitely give you problems. At least they did for me.
Same here. I thought it was funny, getting pulled over at 3am while I was running.
This summer, some high school-aged punks pulled up next to me as I was running in the middle of the night (it was about 2am), and they drove along side me and commented on how slow I was running. They said something like, "What are you doing? You're only running 7 miles per hour!" I had been up for almost 48 hours at that point and I didn't find it very funny. I just told them I had been up all night and they drove off.
I'm a procrastinator so often I will put off running until just before I go to bed. It's not unusual for me to be out till 2 or 3am on a run. Never had trouble falling asleep afterwards. In fact, I feel like I sleep better immediately after a run.