Today I turned to Ben and absent-mindedly asked “so. What kind of nap are you planning to take?”
To me (and him) it’s incredibly obvious that this is a training question infiltrating non-training life. What kind of run are you doing, are you going to the track? What kind of ride? What kind of swim?
What kind of nap? *
Nap intervals? Nap LT? What??
The question, and its obviousness to me, both mean that obviously I am even more boring than the endless stream of WTC announcements. All I think about right now, even subconsciously, is training training training racing training. I’m really hoping I can score a rec center guest pass for when I’m in Boulder.
* Little-known fact: Ben sleeps with his eyes cracked open. It’s really cute. His mom told me that when he was little and was falling asleep, he would sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to himself!
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I love that question. I am saving it for later. I bet I will get some strange looks when I ask it/
There are cat naps. Quick and where ever you are. Powernaps. Longer, with the goal of getting some REM sleep. Couch naps. When you fall asleep while watching TV. I’m a fan of powernaps. I try to make all my naps this kind.
Two things:
1) It depends on the pancake. Some are very 3-D – like these – http://tinyurl.com/y8j65u4.
2) What do you take after a really hard nap?… A recovery nap of course.