Have you ever had sleep poverty at 2:45 a.m.? Counting sheep is ridiculous, as is counting how many times you’ve pluffed your pillow or deciding which jeans to wear to work.
What to do? Turn on BBC radio, it’s 5 hours and worlds ahead of where you are, in your bed, in Arkansas.
The BBC was interviewing Natalie Grabow from Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, at 2:45 this morning. She was always a runner and cyclist, never a swimmer, so she learned to do that at her local YMCA 21 years ago.
On October 12, Natalie entered the Kailua-Kona triathlon in Hawaii, competing in the Ironman World Championship – 2.4-mile ocean swim, 112-mile bike ride, and 26.2-mile run. It took her 16 hours and 45 minutes.
“I like the diversity of cross-training,” she said. “You don’t get as sore.” She’s also a weightlifter who can do 40 pushups. “I need something to think about when I wake up in the morning, then I go for it and try not to fall.”
Natalie’s 80 years old.
I chose Levi 501s.