What kind of life do you have if you choose to run at 4:30 or 5am 7 days a week ???????

I'm pretty happy with my life.
I'm not sure if that's because I get up and run early, or if it's because I don't waste my time and thoughts on being angry at other people doing things that don't affect me, and then writing paragraph long anonymous posts online about it.

Different people have different body clocks. Moreover things can change as one ages and through habit/consistency. Ever heard the terms morning person or night owl?

I have a small child so run early in order to not disrupt my family. That said, I wake up at 5AM no matter what these days and frankly enjoy getting exercise early. It energizes me for the rest of the day and gives me an hour or two to enjoy being alone before all hell breaks lose at work.

I had the hardest time in late summer.

Friends would want to be far from home late fri or sat night. I’d want to hurry and get home to get sleep for long run.

Plus, they’d want to drink and chill. I’d want to too and then well jump wife but most of time I wouldn’t. The 10mp weighed my mind..

What kind of life? A healthy one.

If you're adulting right, you should be busy with plenty of responsibilities. It's easiest to just run first thing in the morning before work. If you try to run after work you may be too tired to run or something may come up.

The only time you can be sure you're able to run without the wife nagging giving, honeydos or typical ball and chain.

Welcome to adulting.

I go to bed between 1030-1130pm. I wake at 430am. No alarm needed. I set one, but will usually wake 10-15min before it goes off. That's just how my body clock works. I'm also 42. I run or workout at 6am five days a week (Army).

Interestingly before the Army I was not a morning person and having to wake and workout that early was originally a worry for me ten years ago :)

Alan

When you have a family getting up early and run is an optimal choice for balancing life.
When I'm tired asf I take a day off. I'm too old for Olympics anyway and 4-5 days a week are plenty to stay fit and race once in a while.

I’m a stay at home dad. I don’t see how waking up at 4:30 guarantees anything. My kids go ballistic any second of any day. If there is the chance to sleep, I take it. Do you wake up at 4:30 when your kid was up at 2?

My solution is to push my kids in a double stroller when there is not too much snow making the sidewalks too narrow.

My Achilles are about to tear however, the two kids plus stroller is approaching 130lbs.

If waking up at 4:30 worked....I’d do it.

My bigger complaint is road races at 8am on the weekend. That’s means getting up at 6 or so on your day off. They should just have them on Friday night.

I don’t go to bed at 9:00 as you’ve suggested, but I do wake up at 4:30 to run. I have to be to work by 7:45, so it just makes sense. I typically run after work as well (before my kid gets home from daycare at 5:20).

When I have family events that go late, I go to bed after they’re done like everyone else. When the big games are on, I stay up and watch. I average right around 6 hrs of sleep, but often get more or less than that. It isn’t an issue for me. Still setting PRs as a 32 year old is worth every single 4:30 alarm.

I will admit it was hard at first. I have adjusted though and now have no problems and the early wake ups never stress me out.

no life wrote:

It's just hard to imagine a life like that EVERY FRICKIN DAY. It seems very depressing, unless you live in a poor village in Kenya.

Then don't worry about it.

Part of growing up is realizing that you don't get to define what other people like or enjoy.

Bruh respect the GRIIIND

Same as others have mentioned. I’d also add that if you have few parks/trails/places to run, then running at 5am when the streets are empty is the best option. It can be impossible to do a workout if you have to stop at every stop sign or traffic light. I don’t have time to drive to a trail in the afternoon and my neighborhood isn’t very runnable .

I would love to run at 430 am. I get up to get ready for work at that time! If I wanted to double I'd have to go at 330 am. Right now I double just every now and then. OP, people who are dead set on running fast times don't worry about things like "having a life" as they enjoy running above most other things and don't care what you think.

Spend a summer in south TX, LA, MS, AL, GA, FL, AZ, or Mexico. Also, get a job that starts @7am and kids that have events after school. Return in the fall with your observations.

You sound like you're 20 and have no concept of living a life beyond the one you're living. I'm happy that you're happy, though.

As for us who get up around 5 to run everyday, I'd say it's pretty awesome. I start my day doing something I love. It makes me feel good. I go to work. I come home and hang out with the ladies for happy hour. That's right, drinks right after work. It's cheaper. It's easier to actually talk and get to know people. I'm in bed by 9 and can do it all again the next day.

When I was in my 20s I was probably doing things closer to the way you are. It was fun, too. But honestly, I like this better. And I wish I was doing some of this morning stuff when I was younger, too.

You sound vey young and immature. I image you don’t work? Didn’t run in college? I had 8AM classes at least 3 days a week all through in college, and we had morning runs and/or weights 2-3 mornings a week, so I got used to getting up early to run when I was in college to get my first workout in prior to my 8 AM classes. Now, with work it just fits best to get up early and run before starting the work day. Personally, I hate running after work. If I end up having to work later than usual, or am tired after work I fee anxious about getting my run in. Unless I have a second workout planned, I’m free for the evening with no pressure to need too run after work. As far as early morning runs, the roads are quiet in there is little to no traffic.. I live in the mountains, so even better is starting a run at 5-5:30AM on the trails with a headlamp to time it to get to peak or ridge line as the sun is coming up. There isn’t much better than that! Yes, I go to bed around 9-10 PM, but seriously what do you do late at night other than sit on the sofa watching bad TV?

Since I’m a woman I can’t really answer your “how does it work with the ladies” question. My husband is also a runner so getting up early to run was normal for both of us since our dating days. Before meeting him, I dated some non-runners. No big deal if I was out late on a Friday or Saturday night. I got up early to run the next morning, and since it was a weekend I could always take an hour nap if I was tired. Not a big deal and certainly didn’t adversely affect my life.

I have a job and a commute, so that is when I have to run if I am going to run. Weekends I sleep in a little, but mostly I’m just used to waking up early and can’t sleep in very long.

The life they freely choose to live. For some, this is the cost of chasing the dream. Others enjoy the quiet solitude of the early morning run.

I do it because I need the structure, I just function better when I go to bed early and work out first thing in the morning.

I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead.