Moody woke up this morning at 3:30, which she's happy enough about. She never sets an alarm because she always wakes on her own before dawn. Most mornings, sometime after three, she'll be awake. She'll lie in bed breathing slowly and counting. If she makes it to 100, that's it, she's up for good. This morning, like usual, she ate RS Gold a bowl of oatmeal at her kitchen table, then went to a gas-station convenience store for a cup of decaffeinated coffee. Then she came here to the gym. She's about halfway through her workout.
The most common cause of insomnia is emotional distress," says R. Robert Auger, a physician who works at the Mayo Center for Sleep Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. "Parse that out even further, and the most common subcomponent of emotional distress is anxiety."
Chronic insomnia affects around 10 percent of the population. Everyone has sleepless nights once in a while—especially runners before a race. Insomnia is considered chronic when the sleepless nights last for a month or more. Different people have a different predisposition to insomnia. Someone can be hard-wired for persistent arousal, while someone else is wired to sleep soundly. Moody believes most committed runners are Type-A personalities, at least at the elite level. She might be more Type A than most, she admits. Type A+ or something.
Sleep experts say adults should snooze about one hour for every two hours awake. Conventional training wisdom says to add one extra minute in bed per night for every mile run during the week. Not getting enough sleep builds up a so-called "sleep debt," a term that also has its own rule: Every hour of sleep you lose is like a brick added to a backpack you must carry on the next workout. For Moody, that's one heavy backpack.
Largely because of the strategies she learned at the Mayo Clinic, Moody now enjoys some nights when she gets as many as nine hours of sleep and wakes up feeling like Superwoman, an occurrence so thrilling she posts it on Facebook. She and her coach say those nights of good sleep are a big factor in Moody's improvement as a runner. Hudson can see Moody Tera Online Goldmaking the Olympic team in 2012. The goal, he believes, is realistic.
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