Again, this is good write up followed your earlier how to get good Sleep like No afternoon caffeine, early dinner or light dinner, wind down, not much water... I really like to do sleep tracking which in-turn helps to validate what caused to bad sleep to co-relate but still some times I miss the discipline and eat heavy dinner and lead to bad sleep.. learning from the mistake with bad sleep which impact the next day to day life as well as the running performance as well... I always like to track it and celebrate when I get good sleep score. Have a good weekend.
I agree, with using sleep tracking to figure out why you're tired. I've recently learnt a bout HRV (heart rate variability) too and sometimes my coach will ask for those stats to make sure I'm managing my program okay. I think we can we overwhelmed by stats and maybe even obsess over them. I don't check my sleep every today, I often know when I've had a good sleep. It's when I've had a bad sleep that I have a look and see if any adjustments can be made to help improve it. The sleep stat validates me when I'm feeling tired too and not a feeling of my brain is telling me that I'm tired but I'm actually not.
As you know, I have an Oura ring too - but I have actually stopped using it.
It did give me interesting detailed stats about sleep and gave me some insight about the impact of the bad things I was doing sometimes, such as eating too much, too late, alcohol etc.
However, I found that over time, I started to get annoyed with the readiness score. If I woke up and had a bad night's sleep I found I was disappointed with the low readiness, but couldn't do much about it.
I've got good enough sleep habits now that I'm comfortable with my patterns and sleep well most of the time - so I decided to ditch it.
Again, this is good write up followed your earlier how to get good Sleep like No afternoon caffeine, early dinner or light dinner, wind down, not much water... I really like to do sleep tracking which in-turn helps to validate what caused to bad sleep to co-relate but still some times I miss the discipline and eat heavy dinner and lead to bad sleep.. learning from the mistake with bad sleep which impact the next day to day life as well as the running performance as well... I always like to track it and celebrate when I get good sleep score. Have a good weekend.
Lessssggggooooooo... to sleep!
I agree, with using sleep tracking to figure out why you're tired. I've recently learnt a bout HRV (heart rate variability) too and sometimes my coach will ask for those stats to make sure I'm managing my program okay. I think we can we overwhelmed by stats and maybe even obsess over them. I don't check my sleep every today, I often know when I've had a good sleep. It's when I've had a bad sleep that I have a look and see if any adjustments can be made to help improve it. The sleep stat validates me when I'm feeling tired too and not a feeling of my brain is telling me that I'm tired but I'm actually not.
Hey Ben,
As you know, I have an Oura ring too - but I have actually stopped using it.
It did give me interesting detailed stats about sleep and gave me some insight about the impact of the bad things I was doing sometimes, such as eating too much, too late, alcohol etc.
However, I found that over time, I started to get annoyed with the readiness score. If I woke up and had a bad night's sleep I found I was disappointed with the low readiness, but couldn't do much about it.
I've got good enough sleep habits now that I'm comfortable with my patterns and sleep well most of the time - so I decided to ditch it.
Ben