This used to be a problem for me when I was pacing five to eight marathons a year. Being in an unfamiliar city, trying to sleep at 8p in a hotel noisy with TVs and flushing toilets and late-night drunks wandering the halls talking loudly.
Diphenhydramine (the non-habit forming sleep ingredient it Tylenol PM and Advil PM) can be purchased on its own. It quiets the brain noise and lets me sleep and the early morning wakeup isn’t too brutal. I never feel groggy on it.
Try it during training, though. It would be bad to sleep through your race if you’re trying it for the first time.
Sharon McN
@IronCharo
#TeamZoot
Clif Bar Pace Team 2003-2018
Diphenhydramine (the non-habit forming sleep ingredient it Tylenol PM and Advil PM) can be purchased on its own. It quiets the brain noise and lets me sleep and the early morning wakeup isn’t too brutal. I never feel groggy on it.
Try it during training, though. It would be bad to sleep through your race if you’re trying it for the first time.
Sharon McN
@IronCharo
#TeamZoot
Clif Bar Pace Team 2003-2018