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my two yr old wakes up between 5:30 and 6, which is one thing. But invariably wakes in a screaming tantrum that will have woken the whole street up.
i suspect shes hungry cause she never eats her dinner, but cant articulate it so just starts smashing things.
Dick.
one of us has to take her downstairs have have "far too earty" breakfast with her.
Its invariably me.
Struggle with sleep and staying asleep so early mornings are not favourable.
Days I have work, Im up at 7am and usually feel like crap the rest of the day.
If Ive had a few days off and get up around 9am, I start to feel better. Then end up getting up at about 8am
Occasionally in the spring/summer I've forced myself to get up at 6:30 to go for an early ride, but then i suffer for a couple of days. Not from the ride, but from getting up early. Recently been going out for rides/runs at about 10:30am or 11am and feel great.
We moved our weekend rides to 11 as a lot of the yoofs (under 60s) just didn’t turn up. Now they turn up.
**** that! Right in the middle of the day. Ok if you don't want to get anything else done on that day but I always hate appointments like that.
I recently started taking Mirtazapine to try and sort out sleep issues I had all winter, getting to sleep and waking randomly in the middle of the night is rarely an issue issue now, problem is now I can easily drift back to sleep after waking and feel drowsy/groggy most of the day. Apparently it's a fairly common side effect that should subside, but I'm losing patience with it, might talk to GP about trying to phase it out.
5.30 this morning. I looked out of the window around 6am and my neighbour was heading out on his road bike. It shamed me into getting out for a few miles on the gravel bike instead of sitting on the sofa browsing the internet. Glad I did, it was a really nice morning.
to some extent I think this is actually true. Some folk run a 24hr plus body clock, some a 24hr minus body clock
Pretty sure I read something like that. I saw an article where someone postulated that people actually have anything between a 23 - 25 hour body clock. It was in the context of Northern Scandinavia in winter (ie the endless dark). People start to drift away from their normal routine, and there are stories of inviting someone round for coffee at 4, and they turn up at 4am, because they lose track of which is which.
This was 20-odd years ago. Probably less of an issue these days now that we all have smar****ches and digital clocks and stuff.
**** that! Right in the middle of the day. Ok if you don’t want to get anything else done on that day but I always hate appointments like that.
+1, I eventually gave up on Sailing as the local club insists on slitting the racing with a 10:30 start and a 2:00 start to allow for lunch. Fine, but the races are ~50minutes long, so I'm getting about 1h40 sailing time from an entire day (and I've got to spend the intervening 2 hours sat around in a wetsuit). I've got too much other stuff to get done to give up the entire day, just give us 2x races, back to back starting at 1:30 pm. 2 races, bar, home, done. They argue that it makes it more social and that he elderly cohort need the break. If I'd not been hanging around for 6 hours I'd be more sociable afterwards, and if someone can't cope with 2 hours on the water then surely that's their decision weather they only do the fist. And hey wonder why they struggle to retain members tat ar't retired.
That and 7:30 evening rides seem to have become a thing? That's either to late to come from work or too early to eat dinner. Just make it 6:15 like it always was.
7:30 evening rides seem to have become a thing?
A good thing.
ride at 8:30am on a Sunday morning,
Basically nope, unless it's a trip to the lakes or somewhere exciting. Local would be a 9:00 start which means getting on the bike at 8:45 to peddle up a hill to meet. "Oh but then you've got the rest of the day to get things done." Like that's a good thing - what do I want to "get done"? And also if it's a tough one, what gets done is mainly watching sport on telly and a nap. Nah, I listen to my body.
* that! Right in the middle of the day. Ok if you don’t want to get anything else done on that day but I always hate appointments like that.
It's been self proving in terms of numbers. The CTC in our area start at 8:30 and get the same 4 people, we have rides at 11 or 1 in the summer and get around 20.
So ** that and ride on your own.
and there are stories of inviting someone round for coffee at 4, and they turn up at 4am, because they lose track of which is which.
I used to do a weekly mix of 2-10 evening shifts and 7-3 day shifts. After the 3pm finish I would often fall asleep - wake up in the dark, look at the clock ( a 12 hr clock) and see 6 and panic thinking I was late for work. I never actually went in but came close a couple of times
+1, I eventually gave up on Sailing as the local club insists on slitting the racing with a 10:30 start and a 2:00 start to allow for lunch. Fine, but the races are ~50minutes long, so I’m getting about 1h40 sailing time from an entire day (and I’ve got to spend the intervening 2 hours sat around in a wetsuit). I’ve got too much other stuff to get done to give up the entire day, just give us 2x races, back to back starting at 1:30 pm. 2 races, bar, home, done. They argue that it makes it more social and that he elderly cohort need the break. If I’d not been hanging around for 6 hours I’d be more sociable afterwards, and if someone can’t cope with 2 hours on the water then surely that’s their decision weather they only do the fist. And hey wonder why they struggle to retain members tat ar’t retired.
+1 I hear you on this!. DOING the activity is the social bit, and a bit before and a bit after. And you don't want it to take up all day, you want it over and done with by 11am or whatever - so you can actually have a weekend to yourself! I feel the pain. If it was 5hours of sailing (might be unrealistic but you get my drift) then it would be worth losing a whole day to.
5am every morning, even weekends. It used to be 5:30 till we got a cat 9 years ago and the fat little git decided it would be a good idea to wake me up at 5 every day by standing on the edge of the bed and batting me with his paw till I got out of bed. To be fair to him I love early mornings and I do 40 mins of stretching/ yoga every day.
It won’t change now as my body clock is well and truly set.