Snooooooooze

I am not a morning person.  Actually, I'm not even an afternoon or evening person either.  I pretty much just like to sleep...A LOT...anywhere, anytime.  My first thought every morning is, "when do I get to go back to sleep?".  This morning I woke up (thanks to my dog, Slim) to find that I had apparently turned my alarm off and kept right on sleeping.  The clock said 7:22am and I am supposed to be at school, in my classroom, working by 7:45am.  It takes 20 minutes to get from my house to school.  Fantastic!  A whole 3 minutes to get ready!  At least it's Friday...


The snooze button, I'm convinced, was invented by the devil:).  It ruins me.  Daily.  Every night before I go to bed, I try to make a plan for the next morning.  I seriously have to give myself a pep talk.  I try soooo hard to convince myself that when I wake up I will be able to jump out of bed, start a pot of coffee, get my training out of the way for the day and get to work on time.  Here is what the conversation sounds like...


 Ok, the alarm is set for 5:15am.  When it goes off, you can hit snooze ONE time.  When you get up, you'll have 15 minutes to get dressed, let the dog out and stretch.  Your workout will take an hour.  Then you will have 40 minutes to get showered, dressed for work, make coffee, pack lunch, feed Slim and grab something for breakfast.  It will make the day so much easier because you won't have to worry about when you are going to fit in your run between school and Tombo, or after Tombo.  You'll have more energy throughout the day.  Getting up early is a good plan and you'll be thankful that you did it.  You might even have a little quiet time to journal or post on your blog before heading to work!


When the time comes in the morning to actually put the plan in action, I fall apart.  The alarm goes off and the conversation changes...


If you reset the alarm now for 5:45, you can roll out of bed and be running by 5:55.  You'll be done by 6:55.  You can start the coffee and put Slim in the yard while you shower.  Forget making lunch...just eat in the cafeteria today.  You worked late last night so you deserve to sleep in a little longer.  You know what, don't even worry about running this morning, you can run after you get off of Tombo tonight.  Go...back...to...sleeeeeep...


It always starts off by just hitting the snooze a few times, then resetting the alarm all together, and then sleeping later than I would have if I hadn't planned on running at all!  I don't feel any more awake after all of the interrupted sleep and I start my day off running behind.  Time management, especially when it involves sleep time, is not a strength for me at all.


Confession:  I missed a workout this week.  Wa wa waaaa.  I was supposed to get up and ride my bike for 45 minutes Wednesday morning, but the snooze button took over.   I had to work at Tombo Wednesday night, so I took my workout clothes with me and was going to go to the gym right after I got off of work.  I didn't end up getting off until 11pm and the gym was closed.  I'll still be able to get the ride in this week.  I just don't get a rest day this weekend.  I feel guilty for missing a day and having to rearrange workouts to fit it all in.  


In order to successfully train for this Ironman, I am going to have to go head to head with the snooze button.  So from this point on...NO MORE SNOOZING!  Pray for me...this is not going to be easy!


"Everything is permissible for me"-but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is permissible for me"-but I will not be mastered by anything. ~ 1 Corinthians  6:12