You Snooze, You Lose

I am usually a few minutes late for everything. I like saying that if I had just been born 5 minutes earlier, I would have enough of a head start to be ontime for everything.

The only sane way to fit all this stuff (run/bike/swim) into a normal life is to do it in the morning. There really isn't enough time at lunch and excercising at night tends to mess with my sleep patterns. So I have been getting up earlier than usual/ever. The trouble is, I am not a morning person by nature.

Here is what I have learned and want to share with my fellow snooze button junkies==> The real secret is to go to bed earlier. It takes so much less discipline to go to bed early than it does to wake up short on sleep. How hard is that really? Early to bed, early to rise; I think that one has been done before? (Loading the coffee maker and packing the schtuff the night before also helps a lot even though they never made Poor Richard's).



Today I swam a little more than a mile. I have not been in the water for a few weeks and I think I slid a bit. But it was still good.