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On the list of dumb things to write about

So I write about dumb things some times.  But it’s usually something dumb that affects my training.  And this will be no exception.  
My sleep.

And how much of it I get.

It’s probably the thing I struggle with the most in my training.  I know how important it is.  I can feel how important it is.  I plan my day around getting at least 7 hours each night…don’t judge it’s the best I can do with everything Im trying to cram in.  If I don’t get enough sleep, my training is worthless.  Im there but mentally, I never showed up.  Food I can kinda mess up.  Or I can at least mildly recover from.  If I miss sleep, there is only one option. 

So in addition to having limited time for sleeping, I get really warm when I sleep.  My grandmother (or Nanny as I refer to her) has told me that you could put your hands over me when I was little and feel the heat radiating off of me.  Not much has changed.  Except now add muscles in a recovery state that are healing and generating even more heat as I sleep. I love it when my room is 65 or colder….yes I do have a thermometer.  I sleep like a dead person.  But when it’s too warm, I toss and turn.  And feel about how I do right now.  Unrested, unmotivated and fighting off a cold.  For the second time in less than a week.  Because I live in an older high rise building the entire building has to be switched to heat or AC.  And we are on heat.  I had been trying to keep the door to my balcony open but I live right over a bus stop.  So it mildly cools the room down but Im pretty sure the noise is actually causing me to get less sleep than if it was just too warm.  So since I am always level headed and never make rash decisions, I bought this yesterday.


(Queue Angles singing)

It arrives today, for an extra $3.99 thanks to Amazon Prime.  And I will once again be sleeping in my version of a frosty heaven.  I honestly cannot wait.  For multiple reasons.  Im missing training for the second day in a row…something I do not like and makes me feel guilty.  And Im not a very good sick person or almost sick person.  So I will go home early today and beat the senior citizens to bed tonight.  But then I’ll be back to myself tomorrow.     

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