Who's up early?

SlowPokePete · #1 03-25-2019, 03:25 AM

Is it age?

Stress?

The older I get the earlier I seem to be getting up.

I never really liked staying up late / sleeping late.

In my 20's and 30's I probably went to bed 10:00-11:00 pm, up around 6:00 with no need for an alarm. In fact, back when I would use an alarm (20's) I always woke up a few minutes before the alarm would sound.

Nowadays (54 y.o.) I am usually up by 4:00 am, asleep around 8:00 pm.

I'm actually surprised that with the start of DST and the direction of the spring change doesn't have me sleeping a little later, but lately I've been getting up even before 4:00...

SPP™

Tickdoc · #2 03-25-2019, 04:23 AM

I'm with you, Pete. I'm at the point where I have to take a nap during the day if I am to be out past 9 or I am no fun to be around, because I know I'll be up at 5 regardless of when I go to bed.

weisan · #3 03-25-2019, 04:37 AM

Yup

rePhil · #4 03-25-2019, 04:38 AM

yup

flydhest · #5 03-25-2019, 04:40 AM

I am up early but only so I can get in an hour on the bike/trainer. I would sleep till 6:30 otherwise

Bedtime is 10:00 or so. I have rule that if I can get more than 6 hours sleep, I start to trade off exercise for sleep. 6 or less, I give up exercise for sleep. Better for the mental health for me. Best case, obviously, is to have both.

buddybikes · #6 03-25-2019, 04:42 AM

Early, wife had to take long drive to airport in order to fly to a funeral for relative. I got the easy job of watching the dogs, parrot and cat. Unfortunately for her, she's a CPA, end of March not good timing for 3 days, but life/death doesn't care about deadlines.

Normally I am up working at by 6:30 since lot of my work supports overseas. Leaves time in middle of day for ride

joev · #7 03-25-2019, 04:44 AM

Up at 3:15...going for a 20 mile ride. Clear, and 50.

A new quirk is that I sometimes now get up at 11 or so and can't fall back to sleep for about an hour or so. The downside to all this is that 4:00 PM is the make or break hour. Get past that and I'm good to 8:00! The upside? Hmmm...

fignon's barber · #8 03-25-2019, 04:48 AM

Same here. I seem to get up earlier and earlier as I get older.

sokyroadie · #9 03-25-2019, 05:03 AM

I am up NLT 4:00 AM when I work (3 days/week). Usually up by 5:00 the other days, in bed by 9:00 or maybe 10:00.

charliedid · #10 03-25-2019, 05:07 AM

4:00 - 4:30

Dasarbule · #11 03-25-2019, 05:10 AM

Yes. 04:45 @51yo

biker72 · #12 03-25-2019, 05:15 AM

5:00 am @ 80yo.

fa63 · #13 03-25-2019, 05:21 AM

I am asleep by 10 pm, wake up at 5:45 am. Can't really sleep in; I am up very early even on the weekends (no alarm). 35 years old.

AngryScientist · #14 03-25-2019, 05:25 AM

up pretty early if i'm home during the week, though not nearly as early as some of you guys. i cant get myself in bed before 11pm either. usually closer to midnight most nights of the week.

i do find it amazing that my brain somehow knows when i need to be up though. i have a radio that goes on at the exact same time every morning, and if i need to be up for work, i wake up a few minutes before it comes on, but if it's the weekend and i know i can sleep in a bit, i'll sleep right through the radio coming on. that's pretty interesting.

i also bounce between time zones pretty frequently, and my schedule is generally not at all routine day to day, so i dont have what you would consider a "regular" routine.

huck*this · #15 03-25-2019, 05:25 AM

I have been playing around with sleep habits this past week. I usually went to bed around 9pm and up at 5:!5. Not the best night of sleep.

I played around with going to bed later. 11pm and still up at 5:15. I had 3 of my best night sleeps in a long time doing so. I found that if I try to keep myself awake later I have a deeper better sleep. So I am trying to continue this trend. I always preferred getting up earlier rather than going to bed later but this 11-5ish seems to work.