sleep deprevation

Drinking a lot of instant coffee (can get it done quickly during half times) and my phone is loaded with alarms.

 

Today I started experience some wierd moments in maths and english, really difficult to concentrate.

 

I started off going to bed after dinner (8pm), getting up at 11.25, watching the first two matches, going back to bed, then up for the last game and off to work.

 

I have now amended that slightly to maximise sleep quality. I set MySky to record the first two matches, go to bed after dinner (8pm), get up at 3am and watch the recorded first two matches, which catches me up to the last one to watch live. I will deviate from this when one of the first two games is either England or NZ.

 

No instant coffee for me Oska. I grind the beans before going to bed, so as not to risk waking anyone, put them in the plunger and first thing I do in the morning is boil the kettle.

 

The other change to my schedule is that I'm training at lunchtimes instead of in the mornings. Fortunately, I'm in the taper - the next marathon is only 9 days away - so I have time to get in each training run at lunchtimes.

 

I am a little worried about how to do the final group phase games on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next week. Usually I watch one, record one and then immediately watch the recorded one. That's fine for the 2am matches, but for the 6:30am it will make me very late for work, so I might have to try and avoid the score of the recorded one and watch it at dinner in the evening.

 

Taking next week off though, to absorb the 4 games a night period. 

 

Anyway, made it home, plonked myself down, rewound the tape ready to watch when suddenly my wife who has NO INTEREST in the game pipes up, "Shame about Spain this morning".

 

There followed a short, unpleasant domestic incident....

I might take some mornings off school for the 8.30am games, although that will mean catching up on some assesments at lunch times. : l

 

Managed to sleep from 5 til 11 today, and not feeling hungry.

 

 

PS Just in case, I am joking.

 

Planning on going to bed about 9:30pm, up at 2am, back to bed for 4am, and up again at about 7:30am.

 

Ugh.

 

The next four days, in particular the next three, will be interesting. I can watch the 2am games okay. I think I might watch the first half of each match (got to love MySky where you can start watching an in-progress recording - not like video in the old days!), then break the second half into two blocks. That way, I gain the best sense of the qualifying contest from each group as I go along. Except for England and NZ's games, which have to be watched live in their entirety. Obviously.

 

The problem is the 6:30 games when I don't have time off work. I can watch one game and then try to avoid the score of the other until the evening. Or watch the first half of each and try to avoid both scores.... eek.