Dave, I'm with onemile on this one. 15 min doesn't seem like too drastic of a difference to wake up to enjoy your running a whole hell of a lot more.

 

I'll dissent. For me, morning minutes are precious. I simply will not roll out of bed and run under any circumstances. I get up at 5:18, sit down for my beloved cup of brew at some point around 5:40 - 5:55 and enjoy complete and absolute nothingness while drinking it for about 20 minutes. I start getting ready to run for the next 25 ish minutes (which is a thing!) then head out the door anywhere from 6:35 to 6:55 depending on that day's distance.  If I had to whack 15 minutes from the front end, I would have to take it off the time allotted for running on the back end because again, I ain't waking up and then running 10 minutes later for nobody (apologies to the grammarians for that last part).

I understand that it's not the norm and we all know I'm an oddball here, but basically, I sacrifice an hour at night and crash early to have that special time in the morning which for me, is priceless. YMMV

 

I'll dissent. For me, morning minutes are precious. I simply will not roll out of bed and run under any circumstances. I get up at 5:18, sit down for my beloved cup of brew at some point around 5:40 - 5:55 and enjoy complete and absolute nothingness while drinking it for about 20 minutes. I start getting ready to run for the next 25 ish minutes (which is a thing!) then head out the door anywhere from 6:35 to 6:55 depending on that day's distance.  If I had to whack 15 minutes from the front end, I would have to take it off the time allotted for running on the back end because again, I ain't waking up and then running 10 minutes later for nobody (apologies to the grammarians for that last part).

 

I understand that it's not the norm and we all know I'm an oddball here, but basically, I sacrifice an hour at night and crash early to have that special time in the morning which for me, is priceless. YMMV

I'm with you. I get up at 5:40 and am not out of the door before 6:30-6:45 depending on toilet time, but also on doing nothing time.

I have one double espresso and one English Muffin (don't know if you have those but they're about the size of a small hamburger bun, and although a bit denser than bread, still more bread than muffin.)  That is what I have every darn morning before I run. I have tried the wake up, have a glass of water and get out running thing, and it was fine when I was running 20 minutes, but I prefer having some coffee and sugar in my blood stream now.

And morning time is the best time.

Cyberic & LRB, you guys move about my speed in the morning. I can also use the excuse that aside from my coffee & bagel, I have to pull my hair back. In the summer, I also have to coat myself in sunscreen.

And RD for me. Felt like my legs needed it, but my mood has been meh all day, maybe from not starting the day with a run.

I also took a rest day today. The hottest day all week (it is currently 90 out). Tomorrow morning won't be much better though. Still 70 at 6am.  I have not slept much the past few nights and am feeling exhausted.  And RRP hasn't been running the past 2 weeks and URP won't get up early so I have had to run alone. I really have little motivation to try to do my workouts in this heat/humidity with no races this fall

Seems strange that the midwest is hot and it is below 70 here. Unfortanately, my neighbors decided to cut down trees today & have been burning branches for the last 6+ hours. So as nice as it is, we can't open the windows because of the smoke.

I ran 4.5 on the TM during lunch.

 

I'm with you. I get up at 5:40 and am not out of the door before 6:30-6:45 depending on toilet time, but also on doing nothing time.

 

_{trying to avoid the bear-in-the-woods thing is a challenge for me😡}

_{the parks I run at have bathrooms or dons John’s but they are lock currently}