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Entirely depends on my shifts.
If I’m working days from my base then 5.45am, if it’s days in the control room then 4.45am. If I’m starting nights, like today, I’ll try to sleep until late morning. If I’ve been on nights, finished the morning before, it’ll be nearer 10. If I’m on a run of days off then 8am to 9am depending what I have on.
5.30 most days for me, I'm out walking the dog by 5.50. Thursday mornings are a struggle after the mid week night ride.
I have always been a morning person and like to be in bed making Zzzz's by 11pm.
alarm at 07.00 week days, usually up about 8.00 on a Saturday as my daughter has a drama class at 09.00.
Sundays probably 08.00 - 09.00 dependant on what i'm doing - summer i'll usually get up a bit earlier to get out for a ride.
I don't enjoy getting up early and really need a solid 7 hours sleep per night.
WFH so 7.30, even at the weekends.
This is not meant to be a willy waving, four Yorkshiremen type post
And yet! All the 4:3-5:30 answers! 😆 Strange people.
All depends what I'm doing. Alarm is set for 6:40 on mornings I commute, which is 3 or 4 days a week. The rest is whenever I get up. If I woke at anytime before half 5 I'd be pretty pissed off that I hadn't had enough sleep.
Normally hit the sack around 10:30 - 11:30pm. Fall asleep pretty quickly. Alarm is set for 7am. Normally drag myself out of bed by 7:30am.
And yet! All the 4:3-5:30 answers!
That's not willy waving, that's an admission that I've got something tragically wrong and have to squeeze all the 'me' time into a 2-3hr window in the mornings 🙄
Was in bed at 8:30pm last night just to ensure I was up bright and early this AM! 😂
I was actually up at 6am this morning - but not through design. My wife and youngest are both ill and were up on the hour every hour. The joy...
And yet! All the 4:3-5:30 answers! 😆 Strange people.
Eh? I get up at 4.30 because it suits me, I'm way more productive if I get to the gym in the morning...it works for me and my family. Not at all about feeling superior, we all work differently.
I listened to a brilliant podcast a while ago where they interviewed a sleep expert (sorry, can't remember which podcast). He said every person has an optimum sleep duration, it varies by person but is usually between 7-8hours. The really interesting bit though was about sleep deficit. Every night that you sleep less than your optimum, you build up a deficit, it accumulates but to clear this deficit, you only ever need to have one optimum sleep. So if your optimum is 7 hours, you can clear any deficit with 7 hours quality sleep. In other words, there is no advantage to a long lie in.
I've worked out my optimum is around 7 1/2 hours. So typical is 11pm bed, 6.45 am get up. I could get up later but I like to walk the dog and be home before Thought for the Day kicks in on Today programme. Can't be doing with being preached at in the morning.
First alarm is set for 6:30. Then I get 10 minutes of denial until the next one goes off at 6:40. I'm normally up at that one. There's also a 7am one set as a back up for when they eyes won't open. There's just time for a quick coffee before waking the kids at 7am. Then it's an hour of sorting breakfasts/lunches/school suff before getting them to school and back home to log in for work at around 8:30.
Weekends my bladder seems to wake me up before 7 then the dog hears me moving so I have to go down to let her out. Generally head back to bed with coffee and a cuppa for the wife if we have no rush to be up and about.
Oh, and normally asleep by 11pm, often 10.30pm.
I stand by my "strange" statement 😀
My wake up times are all over the shop as I work a 24/7 shift pattern. I can literally start work at any given minute of the day. However I seem to be doing more than my fair share of early mornings (which means a start time anywhere between midnight and 6a.m.). When it's my day off I'd get up with the kids at 7 but I'll have probably been awake before that by virtue of either needing a pee or the fact that I'd collapsed into bed early the night before.
As an aside the really early shifts, those between midnight and say, 2, are the worst as I seem to get really bad alarm anxiety on those shifts and end up beating the alarm on almost every occasion after already having had a few wake ups in the night. Tend to come home feeling really jetlagged. This in turn makes me a little giddy and it's like having an overcaffienated 3rd child in the house.
04:00 4 days per week and 06:00 the other 3.
EDIT - I work 4 12 hour days, I also commute on the bike for 2 hours on each of those days, so the 04:00 is pretty much a requirement.
Since I've had Long COVID and WFH, it's
Bed at midnight
Lights out 00:30
Alarm at 08:15
On weekends, before Long COVID I would quite often be out of bed before 10am. These days I am rarely up before noon 🙁
It's often a real struggle to make myself stop what I'm doing around 10.30pm and do some yoga and get ready for bed. I am far sharper and more engaged at 11pm than 11am. When I was self-employed (and single!) I was a bed at 03:00, up at 11:00 kind of person.
Incidentally, I notice a lot of people saying they nap in the day/afternoon. I have NEVER been able to nap in the day. Is this also an early/late risers difference?
5am on earlies, 8 am on lates if I can stay asleep. i usually wake up earlier than my alarm on late shift
Alarm set at 5.40, snoozed through every 5 minutes until 6.10. I'm up sorting cat/dog/children's breakfasts, wife is out running the dog.
Weekends are usually around 6.30-7.30 am, don't normally set an alarm.
During lockdown, particularly the first one I'd often be up and out on the bike by 5am, taking advantage of the quiet trails, but have rather fallen out of that habit.
Bedtime is usually between 10-11pm throughout the week.
Pffft, I'll make the lazy* people feel better, I wasn't up until 7:30.
Read and watched the news with a bowl of porridge and a coffee, then had a cup of tea and rode into work.
*alternative reading, there's lots of people with crazy commutes and sleep deprivation trying to make out it's by healthy choice.
As an evening person I'm really surprised by the replies on this thread being weighted to what's very early morning to me.
I'm strongly an evening person who also needs a lot of sleep. I have always struggled to get up in the morning, no matter what approach I take, but I am really productive late at night.
Left to my own devices I might get up at 9-9:30am and go to bed about midnight (with no responsibilities at all it would be even later!). Work says otherwise unfortunately, as does school so alarm goes at 7:45 and in bed by 10:30.
My eyes open close to 6am...a lie in for me is 6.45ish if I'm in bed near 8am then I must be ill..tbh I like getting up early , I like the peace and quiet and a un disturbed morning coffee...I love even more now the mornings are brighter....I always find it weird how people can just stay in bed.
Bedtime for me is around midnight
Being a variable pattern shift worker, I get up when I need to!
I listened to a brilliant podcast a while ago where they interviewed a sleep expert (sorry, can’t remember which podcast)
I think this is the one on Joe Wicks podcast (number 28).
I tend to go to either a swim or cross fit session at around 7pm. Back home by 8:15; eat and then chill and bed by 11:30ish. I am out like a light.
I have a Withings sleep monitor under by mattress that i got during the Covid lockdown to measure sleep, as the lack of activity gave me very bad insomnia. Just checked it for last night and my sleep score was 95/100 with depth and REM both high.
Early mornings won't work for me and never have.
Wtaf!!
I work from home and don’t get out my bed before 8.30. My body doesn’t Function before then
It does lead me to question how much more I’d get done if I got up at 6. I’ve occasionally tried to get up early and train on the turbo but I am utterly useless at that time so it’s pointless
I work from home and don’t get out my bed before 8.30. My body doesn’t Function before then
Same. Only way you're getting me out of bed at 6am is if I'm going on holiday and need to get to the airport!
A virtuous 5:25 for CrossFit 2 days a week as that’s all I can sustain. 6:45ish the rest of the week including weekends (no alarm but my body/bladder is a creature of habit).
Also early to bed- normally asleep by 10-10:15. I love a long deep sleep and don’t function well without it.
7/730. Really need to try getting up around 6 and getting out as it's the best part of the day now light.
Up and about from 0530. Sometimes it’s straight on to my bike for a 1hr 30 commute in. Today it’s a quick bit of work from home, in the car by 0700 and first commitment at work at just after 0800.
....and that's me home. Getting too old for this.
In the last few months I’ve gone from sleeping from 1:00 until 7:00 weekdays and 8:00 or 9:00 given the opportunity at weekends, to being wide awake once I’ve got up to use the bathroom. In the worst case this was at 4:30, more usually it’s between 5:30 and 6:00. If I can manage an afternoon nap it’s not too bad, otherwise it’s often frustrating.
Edit: my dad’s just had his second operation to reduce the size of his prostate - something that doesn’t bode well for me in terms of getting a good nights sleep if I go the same way as him (at its worst he was up every hour to use the bathroom).
I surely can't be the only nocturnal poster?
When I worked at an office I could go from asleep to washed and dressed and out of the door in about 15 minutes. Working from home involves crossing the landing and finding underpants before I open the blinds. My hours are flexible, they prefer that I'm present before 10am but no-one really cares. I aim to get up around 9am, this whole 4/5/6am would kill me.
Conversely, I'm up late. Part of my job is dealing with people in different countries, if I've got a support ticket logged with someone in California then it's going to be a long conversation if they're starting work just as I'm finishing. A 1am bedtime is typical. If you need me at 4am for some reason, I'll just stay up.
Blimey… has this thread attracted early risers or am I abnormally lazy in the morning? I like being up early on a nice day but I hate getting up… mind you I’m never in bed before 12.00 and it’s often much later than that.
I have a theory that I run to a day that's longer than 24 hours. I never want to go to bed, then when I'm in bed I never want to get out of it.
A while ago I was out of work (and probably undiagnosed clinically depressed) and I let biorhythms take over. I went to bed when I was tired and woke naturally. It got later and later, eventually I looped a day.
A bit like Cougar - especially now I’m no longer working, having been finally made redundant on Friday, I’m now getting my state pension, I’ve got someone sorting out a bunch of workplace pensions, so I can indulge my natural tendency to stay up late, usually listening to music, and getting up late, my natural wake-up time is around 10.20. *sigh*, no more 5am alarms ⏰🥳
Last few wake-ups have been
0300
0430
0715
0130
0515
I’ve a few days off coming up and will probably wake up at 0800-0900 naturally, so long as the cat doesn’t attack me earlier.
I’m a night-owl, so struggle to sleep before 2200, so an 0130 call hurts! Bouncing around the hours isn’t fun.
06:45 weekdays, 08:00 weekends
Always awake before these times but these are the get up times.
depends on work and training schedules, anytime from 3-6. I always prefer getting my exercise in first thing in the morning, so if I'm on the road early I'll try and get up earlier, so I'm exercised, fed and full of coffee before having to deal with motorway hell and people.
I'm a rubbish sleeper and have pretty much zero routine, not helped by shifts.
I get up at 5am when I have to for work, but left to my own devices I can easily sleep until 11am or later, it takes me ages to get to sleep though. If I go to bed at 10 ready for a 5am alarm I can often still be wide awake until 2am. I love an afternoon nap 🙂
This thread reminds me of when I worked at Bolsover Colliery.
Miner:- where do you come from?
Me:- high Wycombe
Miner (rather surprised):- what time does tha get oop int mornin? 🤣🤣
Not as bad as going to the laundry & being asked by two women "why aren't tha downt pub like other men" ah the enlightened 80's 🫣
I've been waking up between 5 and 5:30 for the last few weeks, whether I want to or not. Like the OP, I've tried going back to sleep and then I sleep badly and sometimes through my alarm which is usually set for 6:30.
...maybe the clocks changing this weekend will solve that? We'll see.
Wtaf!!
I work from home and don’t get out my bed before 8.30. My body doesn’t Function before then
It does lead me to question how much more I’d get done if I got up at 6. I’ve occasionally tried to get up early and train on the turbo but I am utterly useless at that time so it’s pointless
Same. Only way you’re getting me out of bed at 6am is if I’m going on holiday and need to get to the airport!
Yep, completely agree.
A group ride at 8:30am on a Sunday morning, 45 minutes drive away? Yeah, I'm not making that.
Not great at the moment - usually awake and up at 630, now struggling to get moving at 730!
This thread reminds me of when I worked at Bolsover Colliery.
Miner:- where do you come from?
Me:- high Wycombe
Miner (rather surprised):- what time does tha get oop int mornin? 🤣🤣Not as bad as going to the laundry & being asked by two women “why aren’t tha downt pub like other men” ah the enlightened 80’s
'Because I'm from Special Branch and can't drink on duty!'
🙂
We moved our weekend rides to 11 as a lot of the yoofs (under 60s) just didn't turn up. Now they turn up.
I’m up at 4:50 every morning and alternate my mornings between the gym and riding the bike. My kids are grown up and gone now, so we tend to hit the sack about 9:30 and read for an hour or so. Wouldn’t suit everyone I know, but I’ve been in this routine so long now I wake up the same time when we are away on holiday. That’ll be me walking round the pool on my own as the sun comes up 😂😂
20 past 6 this morning. a lie in for me.
It does lead me to question how much more I’d get done if I got up at 6. I’ve occasionally tried to get up early and train on the turbo but I am utterly useless at that time so it’s pointless
I WFH too and wake up between 5:30 and 7:30 depending on how tired I am (I can easily sleep 9pm-7:30am when I'm knackered). I don't get anything extra done if I wake up earlier, I just faff around and waste more time... If I'm feeling really enthusiastic I start work a bit earlier.
I have a theory that I run to a day that’s longer than 24 hours. I never want to go to bed, then when I’m in bed I never want to get out of it.
Are you a teenager?
to some extent I think this is actually true. Some folk run a 24hr plus body clock, some a 24hr minus body clock
Myself in my 50s i switched from late to rise late to bed to early to rise and fall asleep on the sofa at 9.30 🙂
waking at 5.30 - 6 am every morning is very annoying