It is pretty embarrasing when I tell people I go to bed at the same time as my 8 and 10 year old boys.

• Good: The world is yours at 5:00am
• Bad: The world is also shared by the odd drunk guy at 5am
• Good: Ships in the mist off St. Lawrence river.
• Bad: City turns off most it's lights right when you run under them.
• Good: you can wear off the piece of chocolate that you had with breakfast way earlier.
• Bad: you eat more chocolate.
• Good: very few people train in the wee hours
• Bad: gets mighty lonely.
• Good: crawling back into bed to wake spouse up, who is all snuggly and warm :)

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Try setting it for 4 am. I know, I am insane.

Agree w/ everything you say here. =)

Good: No need to train during "family hours".

Good: Have you ever trained where you are the only thing awake and moving? You have if you've trained at 4AM.

Good: The serenity that a cold, winter morning presents you. You're wearing long johns, tights, 2 sweatshirts, stocking cap, gloves, and 2 pairs of socks. You can't decide if you're committed or should be committed.

Bad: My contacts don't like the cold morning air.

Very bad: The damn snooze button.

This past week was a bad morning week for me. Stayed up too late most nights, slept too late most mornings. When I am hitting my AM workouts, everything rokks ... rokks like Eddie Van Halen playing Eruption.

Once you get into the sleep/wake patterns, there is no downside to early AM workouts.

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Each evening offers judgement. --

 
On the rare occassion I make it out of bed at 5am, I've never have regrets!

But .. the bed is *so warm* ..

:))

matt

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"When I cleaned up my diction, I had nothing left to say" -- Van Morrison

• Good: feeling hard core for setting your alarm at 4:40am
• Bad: the alarm
• Good: your timex has 5 alarms, so you set them to go off at 2 minute intervals starting at 4:30am. sometimes you wake up before the alarm clock
• Bad: sometimes you don't
• Good: seeing the sun come up
• Bad: crashing out at home three hours before your spouse is even close to tired
• Good: feeling like you've actually accomplished something before the day's even started

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Perfect.

I hear you brother. My daughter's swim team just added morning work outs that start at 5:15. That means getting out of bed at 0'dark thirty. I can't wait until she can drive.

Set the alarm for 3:50 am, drive into Manhatten to run before work. There is still lots of traffic and plenty of runners along the East River at 5:30.

Want to feel hard core? Strip down naked and put on your work clothes on a Manhatten sidewalk in January!

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