The best way to find out is by racing, not training, as it won’t be real. The more experience you have, the more you learn and the better you can be. Now, I will seem to contradict myself! When racing, the experience of keeping going, through the waves of fatigue, is vital. I won’t mince my words here, anyone that thinks getting up super early or riding through the night in order to train for sleep deprivation is fooling themselves. In my opinion, you cannot train for sleep deprivation. Its warmth changes me, which I can’t understand or explain. The sun is incredibly powerful, perhaps the best tool against the wave for me. Once the sun is up and its warmth enters my bones, I can be eight days deep into a race but will feel alive and awake. Once the sun streaks break the horizon, the tide of fatigue recedes. Perhaps just 20 minutes and it’s enough to slow the surge.
The last couple of hours to sunrise are the worst - the deep of the night, when we should all be fast asleep, it is in these hours that I will either have to fight back against the wave, or sleep. My fatigue follows this rhythm once the sun sets and it goes dark the wave begins, it pulls me under, deeper and deeper as the night wears on. We all have a ‘circadian rhythm’ that runs in the background of our brains. Well, let me tell you, I am beyond tired when sleep deprived the fatigue is so strong, it overcomes me, it becomes all powerful. Someone wrote to me last week telling me about an experience they had with sleep deprivation and described how tired they were. ‘Judge not lest ye be judged.’ Ultra-racing is fun as it is, the whole point is to find the limits of human endurance, but if you just don’t like sleep deprivation, there are shorter races and events that may be better suited to you. That said, we are all adults and make our own choices I make mine.
Let me get this out in front, I don’t advocate sleep deprivation it’s not nice.
#NO SLEEP FLATOUT 4 HOW TO#
Take this story and think about how to apply this to yourself and where your boundaries are. We are all different, so what works for me will possibly not work for you. There are no hacks, that is the emerging theme in all these topics related to ultra-endurance cycle racing. A lot of you have asked about sleep deprivation how to deal with it, how to train for it, what is it like.
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