Get up, when you wake up.

If that happens to be 3:30 or 4:0, or 4:30 (or 5:00am), it's time to get up.
Do that and you will have no problems. Of course you do have to learn to wake up.
Get woken up from a deep sleep and you will never get over it.

21 days to get used to it/make it a habit? I got up at 4:30am for work for 5 years, and I never got used to it, always sucked. And I went to bed by 9pm most days.

Biologically, in pitch darkness the circadian rhythm is a bit longer than 24Hrs... Makes sense.

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ZONE3 - We Last Longer

There is a ms. billabong? that sounds made up if you ask me.

I've been 4am for a few years and just recently went to 3:30 during the week to have a little more time in the morning. Alarm is set for 5 on the weekends but it doesn't always happen. I usually up by 6 even on days I try to sleep in. It sucked for a while, but now I enjoy being up before anyone else.

I need to go to bed now instead of surfing Slowtwitch, My alarm is for 3 AM, tomorrow is a lazy sleep-in until 4 AM.

HTFU

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DFL > DNF > DNS

Been getting up at 4:30am for a few years now; 7 days a week. Train from 5-6:30am weekdays and longer on weekends.

Weekdays, after the training, help make breakfast and lunches for the kids and get them off to school, then go for a 60-90 minute surf session (or pool if the waves suck), then in my office by 10am.

In bed by 9pm.

Love getting up early...nice and quiet, no distractions. I haven't ever used an alarm except on race days just as a backup, but have never needed it.

I am not a solid sleeper though and wake to pee at least once every night and always toss and turn from about 3:45am onward. I do get tired in the afternoons sometimes which sucks.

I'm thinking a lot of you that sleep in or sleep 8 or more hours/night don't have young kids.

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I'm a carbon copy of the above, minus the surfing

I can do early morning really well. I can do anything academic at 5 am ... but ask me to do physics or maths at 8:30 at night and it's a huge struggle to think.

People's body clocks are different.

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maybe she's born with it, maybe it's chlorine
If you're injured and need some sympathy, PM me and I'm very happy to write back.
disclaimer: PhD not MD

WINNER of the not-very-backdoor-brad competition! Congrats!

This is me exactly. In college if I needed to cram for a test or had a big assignment due the next day I was completely unproductive trying to stay up late. But I could get up at 3am and knock stuff out!