quote:<HR>Originally posted by SFturtle:
Thanks all for the replies! Glad I'm not the only person with this problem.

This being discovered, is there a way to change the anti-morning habit/mentality? I want to start the run by 6:30am. Waking up at 4:30am and sitting around a while for my legs to get warmed up isn't an option.<HR>

I trained myself to be a morning person. It's tough, but it can be done. I hate to say it but you're just gonna have to suck it up and do it. Give it 2-3 weeks and your body will adapt - or you'll have a psychotic episode. Besides, being awake for your run is highly over rated. There have been a few times when I came to at my training partners place only to learn I had just run a 9 mile tempo run.

Give it time, a few more weeks at least. Also, it seems like you're eating a lot prior to your run. Finally, you didn't give any info about what your few runs were just prior to your experience. If I do 6 miles of hills, the next day my legs feel like some weird lead/jello combo no matter what time I run.

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I always prefer to run in the morning, pretty early in the summer (around 5-5:30). Try sleeping in your running clothes and just getting up and out the door as quickly as possible. I can usually get a few miles in before I am really even awake.

but I do agree that you are probably just not a morning person. My wife hates running (or doing much of anything) early in the morning; she goes to the gym at 6 or 7 at night.