I have always been a girl who needs her beauty sleep. 8 hours was my absolute minimum but my average was usually 7.5hrs. When I was training for my half marathon I started doing early morning runs but it was only a couple of months ago during the Maxine’s Challenge that I finally made the switch to early morning training. They say it takes 21 days to form a new habit and I truly believe that. Every morning when my alarm went off I struggled to wake up but eventually I got used to it and stopped hitting snooze and started jumping out of bed when my alarm went off.
The things that helped me make the change and wake up early were:
- Motivational posts on Instagram and Pinterest
- Laying out my workout gear the night before
- Setting up custom alarms to make me get up
- Making it my routine; starting with twice a week and building from there
- Reminding myself that by the time I fell asleep again it would be time to wake up so it would be better to use that time training and have the night free to myself
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