Sleep...need sleep

I'm not much of a sleeper. Never have been. Always seemed to me no matter what time I go to bed I'm up at 7. However I've never been great at early mornings either. Anything before 7 and Im worthless. That has all had to change as a result of the training because I try to do as much of it as possible when the princesses are sleeping. If they're awake and I'm out running I get the evil eye on the missed family time. So its always best they dont know I'm gone.

The last week I had a pick up in volume at 12:30 and a huge drop in sleep. Lets watch a movie, the olympics are on, just one more chapter of Training Bible, its Hurricaning. Sometimes though its not the late night its the 5 am "MEOOWWWW" the cat has to pee. Why the cat has chosen 5:15 am as her I gotta go time is beyond me but it is. When this happens the quality of the workouts goes through the floor and I feel like im struggling through everything. Yesterday I swear I almost fell asleep while swimming.

Friel stresses over and over again the importance of rest but its so hard to turn the workout away when you know somewhere someone is out getting better than you. Not that Im anything more than a MOP'er (Middle of Pack) but if you dont strive to get better than whats the point. This weeks goal is to be in bed at 10 every single night no excuses.