Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
I'm a 5th grade teacher with 29 students. My work days are very hectic and can be exhausting. I'm also a triathlete and ultra distance cyclist. I usually get up at 4:20 AM and I go to bed between 7:30 and 8. I do some sort of workout most days - stretching, cycling, running, swimming, weights. I had been trying to get in two workouts a day and beating myself up mentally when I didn't. Work kept getting in the way - papers to grade, lessons to plan, letters to write, projects to create...

I do most of the day to day stuff at home as my honey has a 90 minute commute into the city. Some days some things just don't get done.

I need more sleep after I've weight trained legs. I slept an extra 40 minutes today and got up at 5.

Veronica

I get home from work at 7:00 pm but like you, I must get up at 4:30 am to start the day for my long work commute. However somehow I don't get to bed until close to 11:00 pm..could it because of TE forums?

Never much of a night owl. On weekends, I find out how sleep-deprived I am during the week, when I sleep until 6:30-7:00am. I also am power napping on the bus portion of my commute...which I never did in past decades. During the summer I will naturally get up earlier on weekends to start off cycling earlier.

I am a morning person and prefer to start working in the office at 7:30 or 8:00am. But geez, getting up at 4:30 am for nearly the last 3 years, is a serious stretch for me. Oh well, this is a contract job for me...temporary situation.

The only good thing about this early mornin' risin' is that I can adapt easily to cycling off early in morning for a vacation bike trip. Talk about not wasting vacation time...