Workers of the night
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Tinparsnips posted 38 weeks ago.
To the 3rd shifters!!!
I've been working overnights (0000-0800) in the aviation industry for almost four years.
During the work week, I try to maintain a consistent "day" from 1700-0900, essentially going to bed right after work. I've tried some training after work, but find it doesn't really do it for me (I would really struggle to get my heart rate up, and to not swat at the elves I think I see after I've been up all night).
Weekends I move it back about four hours, going to bed at about 0500. I get up about noon and in the winter months, I tear out the door, chant, scream, and sing praises to the sun I haven't seen in a week. If it's overcast I curl in a ball and softly weep.
So most of my training is in the evening, I run in the dark, spend lots of time on my trainer, and swim/lift at a 24-hour gym.
This is unless I wake up or for whatever reason can't sleep which happens fairly often. Then I get up and do my training. When it comes to inhumane scheduling, flexibility is everything.
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Nutty posted 38 weeks ago.
Im a recovering 3rd shifter. I get off work between midnight and 2am nowadays. During heavy training times itll come down to a workout before work (a bike or swim) then a run after work. Not the safest time to run, but ive always had a love for the silence of the late night run.
Ive found training isnt a big deal, just at different times than everyone else. Raceday is a whole other story though. As a food service lackey, weekends off arent exactly my forte (as a nurse you sure know too) so when i show up at transition ive either got 2 hours of sleep, or ive been up for 15 hours. Not the best conditions. Hopefully ill be making my own schedule this season though and making some other chotch sling coffee on the weekends when i have a race.
-Alan
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Tinparsnips posted 38 weeks ago.
Nutty wrote:
Raceday is a whole other story though. As a food service lackey, weekends off arent exactly my forte (as a nurse you sure know too) so when i show up at transition ive either got 2 hours of sleep, or ive been up for 15 hours. Not the best conditions.
-Alan
Good point, I have to take a couple days off before an 'A' race to flip my sleeping pattern around. Or else It's like starting a race at bedtime.
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mangorunner posted 30 weeks ago.
thank goodness for daylight savings time!! another hour of sunlight. more time in the saddle!! I am glad there are other workers of the night! keep the post coming about your night stories. I have a funny one...
I was at a stop light on my bike. I had just finished a 12 hour shift and was now up for ~27 hours. At the lights I did one of those extended blinks that never finished. The next thing I remember was falling. I forgot I was clipped in and tried to pull my fot out to stop my fall. I fell hard onto the road. too stunned and tired to move. I stayed on the bike on the ground for 10 seconds. The people in the cars near me must have had a good laugh. What was even funnier was me trying to get back upright. have you ever tried to get up with a bike while your foot is still clipped in?
The sick part of all this was I took a 5 minute nap under a tree and pedeled on because I needed to get my miles in.
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No this is not a thread about prostitutes but instead of the Triathletes that are night shift workers.
I am an ER nurse and have been working the night shift (8p-8a) for 2 years. I have always found ithat a good way to relieve stress from a shift is to go out and run, bike or swim. I enjoy this but I am also a stickler for my training schedule.
What I do for my training, because my monday waking hours are from monday night to Tuesday morning is that I consider 1 training day to be the time I wake up until the time I fall asleep. Sometimes this day stretches >24 hours. This also gets a little sticky because sometimes on my night off after I work I will work out in the AM when I get home fall asleep in the afternoon (getting ~4 hours of sleep) and waking in the PM only to fall asleep around 10P.
So sometimes my days reach 24 hours and sometimes they are only 4 hours. It is not the best system but I get the time in to put in the milage.
Anyone out there in the same boat or have a better system. Would like to form a network for out special breed of Triathlete 3rd shifters.
-Mango
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