Too Much Sleep

"Madasu" <[email hidden]> wrote in message "]news:[email hidden]...

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

With me it's just the surprise, my body isn't used to it soit tries to take a bit more time
to recover.

If I do it regularly I don't have any lasting tiredness, it only takes a few sessions
close together.

Madasu <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<[email hidden]>...

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Certainly not old age. It's probably just a healthy response to the increase in your mileage.

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Go and have a check up at the doctors. He can screen out things like anaemia which could contribute
to your tiredness.

Tony

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is

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diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one any ideas?

Certainly not old age. It's probably just a healthy response to the increase in your mileage.

yep... I saw one of those media mangled "scientific discovery" things that concluded that sleep was
more important than exercise, so keep it up!

(No doubt comparing a lot of atheletes who do many hours a day anyway)

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yep... I saw one of those media mangled "scientific discovery" things that concluded that sleep
was more important than exercise, so keep it up!

Alternatively "There'll be plenty of time to sleep when you're dead" (Anon)

Tony ;-)

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In "]news:[email hidden], Madasu <[email hidden]> typed:

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Go and have a check up at the doctors. He can screen out things like anaemia which could
contribute to your tiredness.

Becoming tired and needing more sleep is a well established natural response to an increase in
physical workload. I do not think it's a good idea to take this to your doctor provided the need for
extra sleep is clearly correlated with a recent significant increase in exercise. If the tiredness
is causing genuine problems, for example it might not be wise to fall asleep at your job as a lorry
driver, lathe operator or radio presenter, or sleeping for 14 hours is causing family problems, I
would scale back the training a bit before seeking medical advice.

If the sleepiness persists after several weeks, and particularly if you do not feel refreshed after
a long night's sleep then I would agree with Tony that it's a good idea to have it properly
investigated.

Disclaimer: I am not a doctor, just some bloke on the Internet.

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If the sleepiness persists after several weeks, and particularly if you do not feel refreshed
after a long night's sleep then I would agree with Tony that it's a good idea to have it properly
investigated.

An increase in exercise does take time to adjust to but it can also bring out underlying problems
that may not manifest themselves strongly in a less active lifestyle - anaemia, diabetes, heart etc.
Also if you are starting exercise anew its not a bad idea to have a quick checkover from the GP
first. They generally do not mind so I would suggest its better to have a checkup before you start
than sometime downstream when problems are persisting.

Tony

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Alternatively "There'll be plenty of time to sleep when you're dead" (Anon)

Bon Jovi. Or near enough: "I'm gonna live while I'm alive, I'll sleep when I'm dead."

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On Mon, 5 May 2003 23:02:10 +0100, Madasu went and written:

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Thanks everybody.

I think I'll keep at my current miles for a few weeks and see if there's any improvement.

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Madasu said:

I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Hi Mad

Firstly: The almost compulsory and inevitable disclaimer: I'm not a doctor.

I suffer from both insomnia and whatever its opposite is called. Basically, I have great trouble in
controlling my sleep. Some days/nights I'll go to bed and not fall asleep for six or more hours. At
other times I'll go to bed, fall as;eep immediately and not wake up for 24, 36 or even 48 hours.
This is because of an injury I had very approximately 14 years, 4 days, 5 hours and 18 minutes ago -
at the time of writing that sentence ;-)

However, when I do cycle regularly and for reasonably long distances - and I haven't recently - I do
notice that my sleep pattern is much improved. After good exersise every day over a period of a
little as four or five days I always find that my sleep becomes more normal.

I obviously feel tired in my muscles if I have overexerted myself, but as far as sleep is concerned
- and this is the root of your question - I feel much, much better.

Finally, I'm 38. Also, consulting you doctor is never a bad idea if you have not done much exercise
for a while. As others have implied, there may be an underlying problem.

Regards and good luck James

PS Time correction: 38 minutes ;-)

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Tony Raven quoted:

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Alternatively "There'll be plenty of time to sleep when you're dead" (Anon)

Bon Jovi. Or near enough: "I'm gonna live while I'm alive, I'll sleep when I'm dead."

Or Grateful Dead or the man in the Bond film or a range of others who may either have come up with
it but probably just repeated it.

Tony

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On Mon, 5 May 2003 23:02:10 +0100, Madasu went and written:

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I'm slowly increasing my miles, currently up to around the 40 mark. The trouble is that I end up
sleeping for 13 to 14 hours that evening. Is it diet, fitness, or just old age at 43? Any one
any ideas?

Thanks everybody.

I think I'll keep at my current miles for a few weeks and see if there's any improvement.

Hi You don,t say how many times a week you do your 40 miles. As a 42 year old I find improving
fitness takes longer these days than it used to. I sleep longer (and better) after exercise. Make
sure you are taking enough rest days. If you only cycle once or twice a week then another shorter
ride even 10 or 20 miles would maybe help. cheers Iain