Do you set an alarm, or wake up on your own?

Triathlon Forum
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subtitle, "this season’s version of “does anyone else just want to collapse when they get home from work?”

Do you:
(A) set an alarm so you can get XYZ in before work
(B) wake up on your own and then train in whatever time you have ‘left’
(C) set the alarm and hit snooze :slight_smile:

I theorize that B might be better because you’d be a bit more rested; with A you’d be tired but get more training in.

love from,
really tired grad student-athlete.

PS. Dev, I don’t want to hear the “getting up before 6 am is putting yourself in a different time zone speech.”

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I wake up on my own multiple times before I am sleeping really well and my alarm goes of, I hit snooze, sleep some more then get out of bed.

It is rare for me to get in a morning workout :wink:
Andrew

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How about (D) Set an alarm to get in xyz before work, and on the weekends, get in xyz before it’s 100 degress here in FL. The single biggest issue for me is having to get up early almost every single day. With an intense job and 2 young kids, I can get training time or sleep, but not both. Generally I am up at 4:30 and on the bike at 5 at least 2-3 times a week and up at 5:30 and running by 6 3 days a week. Sleep in day is Monday, until 6:20. When I arrived in Zurich for IM Switzerland with limited workouts, no work stuff and no school for the kids, I got in 3 nights of 10-12 hours. It was probably the highlight of the year…

Good luck.

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Alarm! 4:30 never seems to get any later…

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No, I don’t wake up on my own. I usually wake up with my partner. Tried poly-phasic sleep?

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Alarm! 4:30 never seems to get any later…

I thought as I was walking to the coffee shop this morning “when do we get to set the clocks back? I want my extra hour of sleep.”

And then laughed at myself for how ridiculous it sounded.

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I normally wake up 10 min before my alarm goes off (6am), unless of course I forget to set it then I’ll wake up around 7:30am.

I rarely workout in the morning before work.

jaretj

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Neither.

I have a 3 year old that gets everyone up between 5:45 and 6:30 every day of the week.

My wife will set the alarm some mornings to run at 5:30, but I never have to worry about sleeping late, even on Saturdays.

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Alarm! 4:30 never seems to get any later…

I thought as I was walking to the coffee shop this morning “when do we get to set the clocks back? I want my extra hour of sleep.”

And then laughed at myself for how ridiculous it sounded.
November 1. I was asking myself the same exact question this morning when I was almost 2 hours into my ride before I could see the data on the SRM…

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  1. phone alarm at 4:40am, the phone is too close to my bed and i sometimes hit snooze and go back to sleep without realizing it.
  2. 2nd clock alarm 2 minutes later and louder, i have to get up and turn that one off so i don’t wake up my wife.
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**I rarely workout in the morning before work. **

I have heard that you even work out in your sleep.

Bernie

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I was kind of hoping for answers from more people who DO train in the morning.

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No alarm, I don’t even have a clock in my bedroom.

Typically I wake up between 5am and 5:30. Try to go to bed at 9:15 at the latest. Falling asleep, well, that is another issue completely.

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I use to have my alarm set for 5:00 and do 15 min stretching before getting ready. Then I decided to get in pull ups and push up so I set it for 4:45 so I could snooze and have 30 mins to get some exercise in before work. Now I just snooze for 45mins dont do anything. So I suppose I progressivly went from A to C

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I almost always get a run in before work. I have a 35 minute drive to get to work without traffic, but if there is traffic (rush hour) it can literally take 90 minutes. So I usually get up at 0445 on work days and drive way early. I get there around 6 AM and run for an hour. Then I can shower and eat breakfast before my shift starts at 0800.

I will not go to bed without setting my alarm. Some days I wake up before it, some days I wake up with it. I’m generally tired either way.

Bernie

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Usually wake up one hour before my alarm… but I always have it set just in case. Do my PT perscribed routines and then a ten mile ride to the transit station. When I’ve over done it I will sleep up to my alarm. That way I have no excuses for getting in at least ten miles in the morning and twenty in the afternoon. And I finally found my leg warmers this morning that made a big difference : )

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One of the few luxuries in my life: no alarm clock, but I tend to wake up early anyway.

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you have no alarm clock because you have an alarm cat.

Maybe I’m going through my teenage sleeping in phase.

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One of the advantages of having kids is you don’t need an alarm clock…

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I’m up every day between 5 and 5:30 a.m., if I need to get up before that for a specific reason I set an alarm.