set up a time to meet a friend for a run. when I have someone to meet, it makes it much easier, as i dont want to let them down.

In college eh? What time do you go to sleep? How many hours are you getting a night?
Find a training partner. Works for me, as does more sleep and less leat nights...

See I am the opposite I can't ever seem to sleep in. Now that my Ironman training is in full though I do have a little bit easier time sleeping in. So the answer is be lazy and do nothing all day :) lol

Join a sport like crew. That's how I started getting up really early. I agree with everyone above that getting a training partner (or team) is a great way to get up nice and early because you have a responsibility to someone other than yourself.
My thoughts on getting up early is that it gets the workout over with. Usually, if I don't work out in the morning, all day long I am occupied with thinking about when I am going to fit the workout in, what I am going to do, what the weather will be like and all that other good stuff. I hate that so on days when I don't feel like getting up, I just think about that and it helps me jump right out of bed.

You could always join the USMC!
I GUARANTEE you would be awake by 4:30 am every morning to the sounds of a psycho banging a garbage can and turning the lights on.:eek:
You might even get your wish and have a bucket of water dumped on you too!
You would get your run in as well :D

Nothing like the sound of reveille first thing in the morning... That and some one screaming at the top of their lungs an inch from your face...

Ahhh, youth! I wish I were still in college... partying all night (oops...you don't do that at Taylor, right??), sleeping in 'cause classes didn't start til after 12:00pm.... Those were the days :rolleyes: Then you start tri-ing and get into the habit of getting up at 6am and not sleeping in past 7am on days off...!

I was in the Indy area for Christmas and you know, it was still dark at 8:00am!!! No wonder you have trouble getting out of bed! Anyway, its important for me to train in the morning...I'm not a morning person, but feel like crud if I don't do it first thing. So, Just do it! (How many cliche's can we come up with?)

There has to be a good reason for me to do it. I'm not one to just wake up early for the sake of it.

Maybe you should give yourself a goal race, a 5k or 10k, marathon, anything, and then maybe that will give you motivation to get out of bed....

finding a training partner or team or club or something like that is great motivation to get up. I find it a lot more fun to train with people so knowing that those people are going to be at a given spot at a given time it GREAT motivation to go ride.

As you're lying in bed thinking about whether to get up or not, just tell yourself that 99% of your classmates don't have the will power or the drive to get up this early and get something done - hell, I know I didn't in college. That, and death metal (good call on the Reveille) - if you can fall back asleep listening to someone screaming at the top of their lungs, nothing short of an atom bomb in going to get you out of bed. Once you get used to it, you'll look forward to the days when you get to sleep in (ie, 6 AM wake-up call).

Braden

The secret to getting up early and feeling good? Go to bed at the SAME time evry night and get up at the SAME time every morining. Your body will develop a rhythm and will respond great to the routine.

This worked really well for me today. Along with putting my alarm clock across the room. Unfortunately it was my phone and I just hit snooze and went back to bed, but I only gave myself two snoozes and then I HAD to get up. I think what helped the most was having all of my stuff ready, which I've done before, but it takes the thought process out of it all.

Good tips everyone! Thanks!

So your saying that if i go to bed at 10pm and wake up at 6am every night, than after a couple weeks I'll get used to it and I won't want to kill myself anymore??