How much do you sleep at night? Ben True never sets an alarm clock and sometimes sleeps 11 hrs at night

If Bekele get 11 hours sleep a night he would be well under 2 hours for the marathon and he would be healthy and injury free enough to recovery well. It is easy to run fast when you have no other responsibilities. Try running businesses and a family at the same time. That puts into perspective how great Bekele is. I'm sure he doesn't get as much sleep as most elites.

Basically do the same thing since I sleep through most of my alarm clocks.

Banana Bread wrote:

If Bekele get 11 hours sleep a night he would be well under 2 hours for the marathon and he would be healthy and injury free enough to recovery well. It is easy to run fast when you have no other responsibilities. Try running businesses and a family at the same time. That puts into perspective how great Bekele is. I'm sure he doesn't get as much sleep as most elites.

Ben True runs his own business too. So .........

Who cares what Ben true does? How about the sleeping patterns of Eliud Kipchoge?

letsrun basement dweller wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

If Bekele get 11 hours sleep a night he would be well under 2 hours for the marathon and he would be healthy and injury free enough to recovery well. It is easy to run fast when you have no other responsibilities. Try running businesses and a family at the same time. That puts into perspective how great Bekele is. I'm sure he doesn't get as much sleep as most elites.

Ben True runs his own business too. So .........

Iten now here or there wrote:

Who cares what Ben true does? How about the sleeping patterns of Eliud Kipchoge?

Most Kenyan runners go to bed by 9:00, wake up by 5:00, start there first run in by 6:00, afterwards drink tea and bread, some do a shorter jog around 10:00-11:00, eat lunch around 12:00-1:00, take a afternoon nap, get there second run in around 3:00-4:00 and finally have dinner around 6:00-7:00. Not sure exactly what Kipchoge does, but I am guessing he does something similar.

From the article

If I’m racing in the morning, I like to have my breakfast finished four hours before the race start time. That gives me time to stomach my full race-day meal, which basically is as many bagels as I can cram down in one sitting. I can usually eat all six Thomas cinnamon raisin bagels that come in the package. If I’m eating larger bagels, though, I might just have four or five. I eat them plain without toppings.

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a26947010/ben-true-morning-routine/

So this guy is getting up at 4:30 am the morning of the race and eating 2k calories in bagels? Even if it works for him, that just sounds ridiculous.

My sleep definitely varies.

This week didn't get off to a great start.

Saturday and Sunday were great.

I went to bed around 9 Friday and Saturday nights.

Up by 630 or so each morning.

A bit of friction in my personal life, and that did effect me.

Sunday night my diet wasn't perfect and Monday morning I would have liked to be up by 6ish again. Wasn't up till 8.

I think I'm coming around though. Thursday is here. Awake since 4 this morning. Out of bed by 6.

In summary, I can sleep on as little as 3 hours (rare) when I'm super focused, energized, alert and excited about something.

Usually I need at least 6 to 8 to feel rested.

If not as productive in my life as I should be, less focused, poor diet, down about something, or on the other hand doing more running, I will sleep 10 hours or more.

Too carb dependent, needs to get on a more keto/carnivore/ primal esque diet. Or else, when he moves up to the marathon he'll hit that wall hard. He might be pre-diabetic, if I had to guess. He should hire Dr. Noakes to get him more efficient at using fat as fuel. And he might actually shape up and get as lean as Chris Froome. Froome used too be very carb dependent, but once he switched to a diet emphasizing more fat and protein he lost 20 ibs and ended up winning the Tour de France.

Reportedly both Greta Szabo and Paula Radcliffe slept up to 13 hours/day. Mo slept through WADA ringing his doorbells.

Maybe EPO is a sleep aid?

Iten now here or there wrote:

Who cares what Ben true does? How about the sleeping patterns of Eliud Kipchoge?

He doesn't sleep. He waits.

It is impossible to "sleep 11 hours at night" because night isn't 11 hours long. Some of that sleeping must be occurring in the morning, the evening, or both.

Lol are you saying you don't need carbs for the marathon? He's eating plenty. Keto isn't great for runners. It's great to help you lose weight or something but not for an ELITE athlete like Ben True.

It should also be noted how most top cyclists are intentionally really skinny up top. Lance Armstrong was an anomaly. They wouldn't need the same diet as a runner, even if they are both endurance athletes.

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letsrun basement dweller wrote:

Too carb dependent, needs to get on a more keto/carnivore/ primal esque diet. Or else, when he moves up to the marathon he'll hit that wall hard. He might be pre-diabetic, if I had to guess. He should hire Dr. Noakes to get him more efficient at using fat as fuel. And he might actually shape up and get as lean as Chris Froome. Froome used too be very carb dependent, but once he switched to a diet emphasizing more fat and protein he lost 20 ibs and ended up winning the Tour de France.

https://www.welovecycling.com/wide/2017/07/04/world-class-cyclists-special-diets-chris-froome/

Lol are you saying you don't need carbs for the marathon? He's eating plenty. Keto isn't great for runners. It's great to help you lose weight or something but not for an ELITE athlete like Ben True.

You have poor reading comprehension.

sdfasdfasfasf wrote:

It should also be noted how most top cyclists are intentionally really skinny up top. Lance Armstrong was an anomaly. They wouldn't need the same diet as a runner, even if they are both endurance athletes.

So are you saying most top runners are not intentionally really skinny up top?

I think it was Ron Clarke who advised setting the alarm for when you *have to* get up.

If you wake up naturally before the alarm, then you have time to do a morning training session. If you wake up *with* the alarm, it means you needed the rest more than a training session.

It's hilarious to think Bekele would be under 2 hours if he got more sleep. What a retarded comment. Yeah, I'm sure running his business is way more important to him than being the first under 2. Do you actually believe what you are saying as you type it out?

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