Are you an early riser?

[hackbike 666]

My earliest shift means I get up at 2am but these are varied which means on mornings im up between 2am and 9am...Also do late shift.

Prefer the earliest turns as not too much traffic around but I still have "incidents" on the commute in even with very little traffic.

 

[Globalti]

I have the same problem too, but I resolved it when I found out that it was the pillow pressing down on the top of my head. Now I'm always wary of when the pillow gets pushed up to the top of the bed against the wall or headboard getting slightly raised and compressed, that my head does not push into the pillow but only rests on it. At one point, I was resting my head on the palm of my hand on my cheek where their is a hollow which the base of my thumb fits perfect and naturally and my fingertips curled inwards which kept my head off the pillow which also worked. At the moment I'm trying memory foam pillows which after just a week seem good so far, but cannot fathom out why.

You could just get up and make a cup of tea then waste an hour on Cycle Chat!

 

[DrSquirrel]

I'm normally awake at around 4.30am. Get up make a cup of tea and by 5.00am I'm out of the door and walking my dogs. Now it's dark at 5.00am this time of the year so I take this massive heavy Maglight with which you can see about a mile away. Get back around 5.30am make breakfast and sit down to eat it just as the pips go for 6.00am on Radio 4 and start of the Today programme.

Anyone start the day earlier than that?

Get some modern Li-ion powered LED beast - lose that magshite!

Seeing a light from a mileaway isn't really that impressive... it just means you are pointing it in the correct direction <br><br>Additionally, it could be mounted and used as your bike light - double win <br>

 

[kevcampbell]

i thought i was bad waking up at 7 most mornings, 4 is well early

earliest i ever usually wake up is no earlier than about half 6

 

[beanzontoast]

Wish I could hibernate, really, cos I'm an early bird in the warm summer months and love to be up, but HATE getting up when it's COLD and DARK!

+1. I know it's the same landscape outside my door as always, but in winter without the birds singing and especially when it's icy / frosty the environment feels bleak, unwelcoming and totally different. In summer, I don't want to stay in bed - in winter, I don't want to get up. I really miss the light mornings. Changing the time system so that we ended up with more darker mornings and more lighter evenings would definitely not get my vote.

 

[goo_mason]

5.30am when I'm cycling (though in reality, the alarm clock's fast so I'm up around 5.23!!), as I like to get out the door at 6am.

Only reason it's that early is because I had no idea how long it'd take me to cycle to work when I started doing it in 2006, so decided to leave at 6 to gove me lots of time. Now it takes me 30mins, I still like leaving early as it's nice to have the roads reasonably quiet for one half of the daily commute!

 

[Kirstie]

Sleep is the best thing there is. I like to be in bed by 10.30 and I prefer not to wake up much before 7.30.
When I cycle commute to work though I need to have left the house by 7.15. When I get back on the days I cycle in (it's a long journey) I sleep even more afterwards. I tried adjusting my body clock so I get up earlier but it's impossible. I'm useless much before 7am.

 

[potsy]

I keep trying to get up for 4am so I can have a relaxed start to the day,bit of brekkie,cup of coffee etc,but it just doesn't happen.
The extra 15 mins in bed is too tempting,I then have to rush around when I do manage to drag myself out of bed.
Am trying to be good and get to bed for 10pm now though,if not I end up falling asleep in the armchair early afternoon.

 

[Bill Gates]

When I commuted on the bike I needed the alarm to wake up and get up at 5.30am to be out of the house for 6.00am. My early shift started at 7.00am and the ride was 13.5 miles door to door. With 15 minutes wash and change I could be at the desk for handover from Night shift.

Now I don't have to get up but I'm awake at 4.30am. The dogs sense this and start barking to be let outside in the garden, and then I end up making a cup of tea. Now wide awake I get dressed and take them out for a 30 minute run around the local park. As others have said it's a great time of day. When I get home my routine continues with a cup of cappuccino coffee made with freshly ground coffee beans.

 

[the_mikey]

At one point, I was resting my head on the palm of my hand on my cheek where their is a hollow which the base of my thumb fits perfect and naturally and my fingertips curled inwards which kept my head off the pillow which also worked.

I've had similar problems, although less so since splitting with ex-gf, I used to get headaches if I stayed in bed, and had to get up as soon as possible and have a cup of tea or do something. I don't get headaches so much, but I still sleep on my hand!

I'm not so good at getting up and moving, I will wake up at 6.30am, and weekdays I move slowly, weekends when there's no work, I might go swimming to wake me up, the local pool opens at 8am, and I'll put in 40-60 lengths of a 25m pool, this usually wakes me up!

 

[goo_mason]

For those who hate getting out of bed, I recommend getting bed-bugs. You dread getting into bed at night, and you bloomin' well can't wait to get out of it asap in the morning when the alarm goes off (assuming you've actually been able to get to sleep at all)!

 

[Arch]

Wow! In 54 years of asking doctors and other folk I have never met or heard of anybody else with the same problem. Today, two others. Do we have a syndrome or an acronym for our little affliction? I'd like to be able to point Mrs Gti to the website because she has never quite believed me!

Well, since you raised the point, it ought to be Globalti's Syndrome. Or actually, I think it would be named after the doctor who described it for the first time.

Technically, perhaps something like Ante Meridian Recumbent Cranial Neuralgia?