How much do you sleep at night? Ben True never sets an alarm clock and sometimes sleeps 11 hrs at night

"I eat them plain without toppings." Absolutely disgusting. Who cares about how much he sleeps given this information. Couldn't he just eat 35 bananas a day?

2000 calories of bagels? wrote:

From the article

If I’m racing in the morning, I like to have my breakfast finished four hours before the race start time. That gives me time to stomach my full race-day meal, which basically is as many bagels as I can cram down in one sitting. I can usually eat all six Thomas cinnamon raisin bagels that come in the package. If I’m eating larger bagels, though, I might just have four or five. I eat them plain without toppings.

https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a26947010/ben-true-morning-routine/

So this guy is getting up at 4:30 am the morning of the race and eating 2k calories in bagels? Even if it works for him, that just sounds ridiculous.

letsrun basement dweller wrote:

Iten now here or there wrote:

Who cares what Ben true does? How about the sleeping patterns of Eliud Kipchoge?

Most Kenyan runners go to bed by 9:00, wake up by 5:00, start there first run in by 6:00, afterwards drink tea and bread, some do a shorter jog around 10:00-11:00, eat lunch around 12:00-1:00, take a afternoon nap, get there second run in around 3:00-4:00 and finally have dinner around 6:00-7:00. Not sure exactly what Kipchoge does, but I am guessing he does something similar.

Most Kenyan runners wake up close to 6am actually and throw their clothes on and head out the door. The only time they wake up earlier is when they are shuttling to a location for long runs (drive out, run back 30km+).

As well, the schedule you mention is out of date and would have been what they did a decade ago. Most Kenyans do a jog in the morning for maybe 40 min and then eat and then they do their second more "serious" run in the morning and that's it. No afternoon run.

night isn't that long wrote:

It is impossible to "sleep 11 hours at night" because night isn't 11 hours long. Some of that sleeping must be occurring in the morning, the evening, or both.

I think this is a really important point that is being overlooked.

Weekdays, I'm n bed by 10, up by 5

Weekends, a little later for both

My natural sleep schedule seems to be about 12am-8am. I still set an alarm during the week though. Years of trying to be a morning person and not getting enough sleep because of it, I am grateful to now have a more flexible work schedule.

I routinely get 7 hours of sleep a night but if I am training hard, I may get 8-8.5. It's kind of a barometer. If I am sleeping that much, I should go easy a couple days to recover.

If I really run hard, I have trouble going to sleep that night and have really weird dreams.

Is Ben True going bald?

College runner here,

My sleep schedule is a mess, 8am's everyday while boozing on the weekend. Get 7 hours of sleep a night with a nap once or twice a week. Thought I would get my recovery on the weekend but we have morning practice and like to party. Oh well.

AP5000 wrote:

It's hilarious to think Bekele would be under 2 hours if he got more sleep. What a retarded comment. Yeah, I'm sure running his business is way more important to him than being the first under 2. Do you actually believe what you are saying as you type it out?

How is it possible to live and never understand sarcasm.

Ah, the tough life of a pro runner.

I get sarcasm, but that dude wasn't being sarcastic. I'm not sure what's worse between him being serious and you not knowing he is serious.

I'm probably on the low end for a sub-elite. I would like to get 8 but probably average 7 to 7:30. Try to go to bed around 8:45 and up around 4:45 during the work week. I wake up before my alarm about 66% of the time. I can't sleep that long to begin with, even on the weekends I don't sleep much over 8 maybe 9 if I am really tired at the end of the week.

I definitely need less sleep than other runners but at 120 miles a week I wouldn't mind a little more.

AP5000 wrote:

I get sarcasm, but that dude wasn't being sarcastic. I'm not sure what's worse between him being serious and you not knowing he is serious.

The dude is just doing a shtick about some Bekele guy. Haven't quite figured it out yet but I think the Bekele guy used to be a good runner.

Something's gotta be keeping him in bed. I don't picture Sara being a freak tho

/mu/tant runner wrote:

Something's gotta be keeping him in bed. I don't picture Sara being a freak tho

yo high mileage, yo sleep a lot. Me be sleeping 12+ hours some days myself.

letsrun basement dweller wrote:

[quote]Iten now here or there wrote:

Who cares what Ben true does? How about the sleeping patterns of Eliud Kipchoge?

Most Kenyan runners go to bed by 9:00, wake up by 5:00, start there first run in by 6:00, afterwards drink tea and bread, some do a shorter jog around 10:00-11:00, eat lunch around 12:00-1:00, take a afternoon nap, get there second run in around 3:00-4:00 and finally have dinner around 6:00-7:00. Not sure exactly what Kipchoge does, but I am guessing he does something similar.[/quote

Their

Absolute load of bull. NO ONE INTAKES FAT WHILE THEY ARE RUNNING A MARATHON. The whole reason why all the elites (Kipchoge, Farah, etc) are using Maurten as their fueling is because it has more carbs than any other drink on the market. It is a never ending battle to replace muscle glycogen when running at such a high speed. Froome is an anomaly, and I think the whole things is just a sham.

aim for 9.5 to end up actually sleeping 9 hours...

furthermore, try to actually sleep between 9 and 6, this is why growth hormone is mostly produced. It doesn't matter if you sleep enough, you need to sleep within this window to optimize growth and recovery

and by 9 to 6, I mean 9pm to 6am