Now, if you go to sleep at 10PM and start at 5 AM [7 hours of sleep], the night owls could sleep from let’s say 12:00 and start at 7 AM to obtain the same level of productivity? Implying that the starting point would be determined by someones biological clock.

Today was the 9th day of run and every day I’m felling better. I did 2 times the course, instead of one. My average time doing one course was 16 minutes; when I did two courses today I marked 17 minutes each time and felt really well.

Thanks very much for your article. It’s very good to know that I’m working very hard every day and that all of you are doing the same, around the world! That’s a community!

Thanks for the interesting article!

May I ask you a question? If you get up at 5 o’clock, what time you go to sleep?

I’m asking without any sarcasm. As for me, I should sleep at least 8 hours to be in good spirit. Otherwise I feel myself bad: I’m yawning and wanting to sleep the whole day.

For example to get up at 5, I should go to bed at 21. But here in Russia (where we live in big apartment houses) it is impossible because upper neighbor’s daughter is playing piano, right neighbor is permanently under repair and using his hammer drill, the lower neighbors are students and they love to listen pop music… And the quiet comes only at 23:00.

Of course, I am exaggerating a bit, but as the Russian proverb say: “every joke contains a part of joke”…

I’m getting by on about 7 hours a night lately where before I needed a solid 8 or 9 to make it through the day.

I am someone who tends to need 8-9 hours of sleep a day, but if I choose to get up early (5:30-6am) every day to do some exercise before leaving to work, then I will often only get 6 hours sleep some night. I’m hoping the exercise will offset the tiredness or something.

I’ve always been too skinny so my 30 day challenge was to hit the weights every day.

I did miss 2 days because I feared damaging my body so I did yoga on those days instead to give my muslces a much needed stretch without pulling something. Technically I don’t really count this as failing as I was still doing an exercise that helps me reach my goal.

I started a couple days before most of you (when Steve first wrote about the 30 day challenge) so I’ve only got 7 days to go and quite honestly I can’t see myself not making it at this point. It’s more or less a habit right now and I’ve started to see some positive results which has me pumped.

It was also a tremondous help to find someone at work with similar goals. It was much harder to talk myself out of going to the gym on those first shaky weeks by having someone else help motivate me to go.

I intend on 30 days of running (instead of the 2 or 3 times per week) and I started a couple of days later than the most of you.

Yesterday I had to pause my running effort as a sinus infection, flu symptoms, and a nasty pink-eye infection got the better of me. The last 5 runs (the runs, not the decision to run; that was easy) had been a challenge with the sinus infection; I guess I simply knocked down my immune system. (Never run or excercise strenuously when you have flu-like symptoms)

I substituted stretching and walking (when I felt better) for the run as I will do today. I will pick up when my health cooperates.

Last night I went to bed at 11:00, so I got a good six hours of sleep. That’s slightly on the low side for me, but I can function well enough. I find that sleeping too much is usually worse for me than sleeping too little in terms of my ability to concentrate on my work.

Thing with me is that I’m nocturnal & insomiac which is very inconvenient for my normal day work. Been trying (for years) trying to sleep before 1am and getting up before 6 am. Never lasted a week. How do you beat the fatigue and lack of focus (do u suffer them)?