Some how, some way, I have become an early riser, well let me be clear by early I mean 6am not 4 am. I do mean that the minute I wake up I am wide awake and there is no going back to sleep for me. You think I would rejoice at this news because it means that it is not hard for me to get up and get going. It would allow me extra time to write in my blog and exercise and generally be more productive. Unfortunately I have not embraced my new found wakened state and lay there longing for the ability to stay warm under the covers - envy my sig other and my dog who are both sleeping soundly. The side effects are also that at night come 9 or 10 pm I am getting wiped out and those who slept in until 8 or 9 still feel great. Boo!
I am starting to realized that I need to figure out a way to embrace this new me but I cannot help but wonder why it started happening. I know older people (hey now I am not that old) are habitual earlier risers and early bird dinner is at 5pm because they are exhausted. I had thought this was more a generational thing that these people had always been morning risers and when you don't have much to do at night you resort to going to bed earlier. I swear what is happening to me is biological as my eyes pop open and even if I am still tired (which generally I am), the brain is chugging full steam ahead. If it is biological - does it happen to everyone? Am I eventually going to be a 4 am riser? One of my favorite excuses for not exercising in the morning is that I am too tired and cannot get up. Is my body plotting to take that excuse from me? I know it would be a positive step for me ...but dang it I want to be deep asleep, warm and hitting the snooze button over and over begging for just another few minutes of shut eye.
If I wake up with ease at 6am, could 5am for exercise be so difficult? If I actually got out of bed at 6, would that be enough time to get a run done in the morning? God I hate that these questions are even a possibility.
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