My Body Hates Nights

Well, it has happened, it only took three months, but my body is one hundred percent converted... it hates night shift! :)  Mentally I did just fine, but from 2am until 5 I was sick to my stomach.  Trying to sleep today and my poor body wants to be awake and doing something in the nice weather!  Two more nights and then back to a normal schedule.  I'm going to be busy the next couple months, probably should do the math and take a look at my total hours, my guess is I'm probably overdoing it again.  Oh well.  Have to pick up the extra shifts to fund this new addiction.  I am finding that training is a very tech-heavy thing.  Certainly, I could do an open water swim in 60 degree water and a swim suit, however.... probably not the smartest thing to do, hence a wetsuit is on the docket.  Also, the more reading I do, the more I realize that this is going to be a highly aerobic and only partially anaerobic event.... because of that, I need to keep an eye on my heart rate during training and try and keep it within certain zones to minimize "hitting the wall" and "running out of gas", so a heart monitor is another little "optional" item.  Aside from that you have all the bike computers, the shoes and pedals, the shorts and shirts, the in race nutrition... I could keep going and going and going.  For now I am trying to keep the purchases to the bare minimum, so a couple extra shifts are called for.

On that note, I picked up a bike trainer on my way into work last night.  Thinking I am going to set it up today, perhaps give it a spin a little later.  Not feeling up to a full workout, and I would hate to get too far from the house and realize that I had nothing left thanks to fatigue left over from trying to sleep during the day.

I was hoping for a swim workout this morning and even made it to the pool, but the Y didn't open until 8 and I was too tired to sit in a parked car for a half an hour and wait.  So I came home and crawled into bed, where I have been in and out of today.

So I guess today is a little bit of a rest day, hopefully tomorrow will be better.  In the next few days I would like to sit down and look at my schedule and be honest with my body and try to figure out what workouts I can do and before/after which shifts :)  I guess we'll see how it goes!