Wow, you are getting tons of sleep compared to me. I wear a Fitbit to help track sleep so I can adjust my patterns when I am getting more tired than usual.

In a perfect world, I would get 8 hours/night. However, that is not possible with my life balance and desire to get more than 10 hours/week training.

Avg nightly sleep volume: 5 - 6 hrs (I get ~7 hours on my one long rest night/week)
Weekly training volume: 10 - 12 hrs

Average training volune: 14 hrs
Hard weeks : 18
Easy weeks: 9
Age: 45
Average sleep: 7.5 hrs

Weekly training volume: 10-13 hours
Nightly sleep: 6.5-7.5 hours

I've been meaning to consistently get 7.5-8 hours because sometimes I drag, especially after challenging sessions or 2x days. I compensate with more coffee and cereal.

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I use a Garmin 235 for sleep tracking and my rolling 7 day average for the last 6 months or so has been just a touch over 7 hours. Sometimes I'll get 5 one night or maybe 8 another but the weekly average is 7. I'm training 10-12 hours with about 80% of that being running and the other being biking.

15 - 18 hr training a week for the past 6 + months
average 8.5 hr a night

I'm 51 - i gotta sleep - it makes a huge difference

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This is something that I enter on my spreadsheet:

On a weekly basis...
Average YTD
Training--15.24hrs
Sleep--49.28hrs

Highs
Training--15.24hrs
Sleep--57.5hrs

Lows
Training--19.13hrs
Sleep--42.5hrs

I'm about were everybody else is. 7 hours and 10 - 15 hours training.

What is interesting though is once in a while I'll have a really great workout where I seem to have tons of energy and everything "clicks". I look back at logs and it's because I got at least 2 nights in a row of 8ish hours of sleep. Definitely makes a difference for me.

My loose equation has always been. 8 hours + 30 mins for each 1 hour of exercise.

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Interesting as I was just thinking about this this evening. I have been pretty unwell the past 4 months and am just starting to get back into a bit of a rhythm with training - don't get a pneumonia, it sucks. This season is trashed, but looking forward to 2018 I think one of the big things I need to change is my sleep, or rather lack of.

I am a night owl. I cannot get to sleep before 11pm at the earliest and quite often it will be 11:30 - midnight. I am up at 6:45 and work a very active job on my feet. It is therefore no surprise that I am knackered when I get home to the point where I need an hour or two on the sofa snoozing before I can do anything.

When I am training, I put in around 15 hours per week, sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less. I probably sleep about 6 - 7 hours a night, which will certainly be impacting my training - need to drag myself out the door most nights. Want to try and do a bit more in the morning, but I am going to need to change my sleep significantly - bed at 9 - 10pm no doubt to be up at 5:30am for a session.

Anyone on here who was the same and has trained themselves to get to bed earlier? Just a case of doing it and your body over the space of a few months will just adjust? If I went to bed at 9pm I would be lying there bolt awake and fidgeting at the moment.

Start getting up at 0500, and your body will quickly figure out how to lead you to bed by 9 or 10.

your hour or two of napping after work is likely one of the reasons you can't fall asleep earlier

Very consistent volume 12-15hrs/week, pretty good intensity in there every single week.

Sleep average 7-7.5hrs/night. A good night closer to 8, a bad one below 7.

Sleep definitely impacts my training. I usually notice the second day after a bad night of sleep. The first day, I can get through, but if I don't catch up/make amends, I start to struggle training-wise.

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Volume approx. 12 hrs/week. Probably average around 6 hrs sleep/night, sometimes less, rarely more than 7. It's definitely not enough sleep for optimal athletic performance for me, esp. since with a 7 month old in the house that sleep time is often broken up, even if only for a minute if it's my wife's turn to deal with the baby. Interesting question on what it's doing to my cognitive function - have to believe it's having some effect on my work, though I tend to think (for now at least) it is efficiency that is suffering rather than quality of work.

I was/am the same way. Used to work out at lunch and after work because I couldn't get to bed early - I'd do 15-20 hours a week that way. I'm a cpa and in the last few months moved back into public practice after several years away, which at this time of year means late nights. The only time I have is the morning. Now, I'm in bed by 10 and up at 5-5:15. Weekly hours have dropped to 9-12 but it's all hard, rather than junk volume. I hope I never go back to my old ways. I fall asleep a lot easier now that I don't go throwing down caffeine throughout the day because I have to workout later, and any physiological rush from exercise is long gone by bed time. I'd done everything to fall asleep - melatonin, unison, ambien, booze - and forcing workouts to the morning has been the biggest game changer. I guess it took a week and a half, and I don't let it slack on the weekend.

Training - 12-15 hours/week
Sleep - 7-8 hours/night

My main problem is that by the middle to end of the week, I get really restless sleep. Like tossing and turning, waking up multiple times a night. I haven't figure out how to get rid of it, but I have noticed it only happens after I've been training hard for a few days, specifically weekdays where I have to be up by a certain time.

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Even more so when wake up time is 4:20AM and workout starts at 5AM!

I'm also about 5-6 hours sleep, and 10-14 hours training per week lately. I do need to work on getting to bed earlier. But the usual struggles, full time work, two young kids, etc.

I have found best to have all ready the night before and just be on bike within 10-15 min max after waking. Ill sip coffee in warm up that made last night and eat at I would in any ride. At times where I have no glycogen (at times very obvious) I eat a bit more during the warm up like a Skout bar which is so easy to digest and maybe a VFuel gel since has some fat which helps. Then spin. But I usually use figbars every 30' with sports drink. I dont waste training time or sleep getting up to eat.

Avg sleep (I track with Withings) :
7:45 - usually in the 7:30 range but on some days I get closer to 9 1-2 days a week. When I ride 2-2,5 hrs before work I am up at 4 am and on bike usually by 4:10 but I got my system dialed and ready to go. Grab coffee in mason jar and bottles rest in ready.

13-18 hrs a week bike only athlete.

10-13 hours a week of training with an average of 7.5 hours sleep nightly.

TG's approach above sounds nice, although I am not sure the last time I slept 10 hours in a night (8 hour anchor + 4 hour long ride using that equation) unless I have been sick. I like the approach.

Similar to me.
Typically 5-6 hours sleep. Sometimes as little as 4hrs, occasionally 7 or 8hrs.
Doesn't seem to be a problem unless I have several successive <5hr nights in a row.

I'm pretty shocked by how little most people sleep. I expected to open this thread and see tons of 9+ hour people. I am not a heavy trainer...peak weeks 12ish hours with yearly average around 7 hours but I sleep 8 hours most nights. Usually once every other week after putting our daughter down I will pass out at 8 and sleep 10 hours. Those mornings I feel like a new man.

I have a full-time job and a young child but my wife and I always prioritized sleep even when our daughter was waking up frequently (i.e. extend the possible sleep period heading to bed at 8 instead of 10). Weekends are typically for chores/errands/long workouts whereas weekdays are for job, family, shorter workouts, and rest.

7-7.5 per night is consistent with most of the adult population for sleep need although I don't know of any literature that says with regular exercise (if what we do is considered regular) whether or not we need significantly more sleep. Interestingly when I have a harder workout I find that 8-8.5 that night seems to do it for me o/w 7.5 is perfect for me.

The other thing that I find interesting is that most people on this thread workout for 10-12 (or 15) hours and not the 20 hours per week that Slowtwitch is renown for.

Workout: 10-12 hours per week
Sleep 7-7.5 hr/night

I also suspect that most people training around 10 hours/week or more are probably not getting >7 hours/night sleep. My hunch is that they are just guessing. Since I started using a FB to track sleep, I was shocked at how little I was actually getting. In other words, I typically start heading toward bed at 9:30. But then after taking care of evening business and settling into the sheets, I was not actually falling asleep until around 10:30 or later. When the alarm rings at 0500, I only got 6.5 hours of sleep, best case.

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?

Age: 36

Average training hours a week when I'm not injured (torn calf muscles and sub Fib head keeping me from run) : 13-16

Right now (bike only): 9-11

Maximum sleep hours a night: 4-5

My body will not allow me to sleep more than this as I constantly wake up if I try to go to bed early. I have tried melatonin and no success. I have to say that I don't really lack energy though, but I wonder if it would help my progression and Injury prevention.