Friday, August 5, 2011

Sweet Slumber

Good Morning!  I hope you all had a wonderful night's sleep last night.  I felt like I really slept well last night despite the very excited four year old in my bed.  I fell asleep around ten and when I woke up this morning, I felt fantastic!

I have been having difficulty getting up in the morning for the past two weeks or so.  I have been a chronic abuser of the snooze button.  I was thinking that I was just getting burnt out on the 4am workouts, so I have been allowing myself to sleep in and workout in the evenings (or perhaps just taking more rest days than normal). 

After last night's beautiful sleep, I have come to the realization that I have not been getting enough sleep!  Throughout this getting healthy process, I have been having a lot of DUH moments and this is one of them.  So with that in mind, I am challenging myself to go to bed at ten o'clock all of next week.  This will be more than a challenge since Jersey Shore is back on TV :(  Oh well, that's what DVR is for...

What DUH moments have you had?

~Andrea

3 comments:

  1. I realized the same thing around last Wednesday when I was so tired I wanted to have a temper tantrum over needing to expend energy to take a shower after my workout. Today my alarm didn't go off, so I automatically got an extra hours' sleep. Score!

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  2. Sleep is critical to quality of life for sure!

    As to your question about building endurance on runs, the key is to just keep at it. Some days 5 miles will feel like a marathon, but if you keep running, it will get easier. :)

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  3. Well it's been a FAIL so far on the ten o'clock goal....Today's a new day and 6/7 = 86% and I'm ok with that :)

    Kara- that's what I figured....guess I will keep pounding that pavement!

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