One of these is the importance of sleep. I have been a 7hr sleep person for many years and usually this works perfect for me. However, I seem to need more since the distance and intensity has been increasing. What is difficult is often we control how much sleep we get by what time we go to bed. I have had times that I have had insomnia and this greatly affects my training. It doesn't happen often but any time it does it is a challenge to meet a hard training session. Not every training session is a hard one, some are recovery sessions but boy oh boy to try and do a hard one with lack of sleep......not easy.
Insomnia aside it is still difficult to retrain the body to go to bed a whole hour earlier, particularly when you are on holidays. Being on holidays you could think it is easy, just sleep in. I am a morning person and I can't seem to sleep in. A sleep in might be 6:30, maybe 7. Even then I have usually woken and 5 and had to try to put myself back to sleep. The only way I can get more sleep is going to bed earlier.
I set some goals at the end of every week that I want to achieve for my training. Each week I put 8 hours sleep each night. I'm still trying to attain 100% on this, even 50% would be good.
I hope I get there before race day. I know it won't be 100% during race week though. I will have a 3:30am start the day to get my flight and a 3am start on race day.
Next best thing is a nap.......I've been having some of those during the holidays between training sessions.
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