#21 Waking up before your alarm and getting to go back to sleep

Despite the fact we often tell others "Oh, it's not that bad! You get used to waking up that early in the morning", as rowers we know that's somewhat of a bluff. The reality of the situation is if we had the option to wake up later we would. We'd take anything, even an extra 15 minutes!

The standard practice time for competitive Canadian rowers is 5:30am. The reasons being, water conditions are often better and there are zero scheduling conflicts.

Your typical wake up time is something around 4:40am plus a 5 minute snooze window. And for those nights when you wake up in the middle of your sleep and look over at your clock to realize that it's only 3:40am and you have ONE more whole hour of sleep, you put your head back down on your pillow and think...

Awesome!

Early morning practices - you never miss a sunrise!

Fall Rowing - 7am and the sun has just risen.