Jake had a regional championship in April and a coach called Mick who believed in one thing: turning up. The plan was four rides a week, starting at 5:45am in Sheffield, before work.
By the end of January, he had missed nine of them.
Jake assumed he was the problem. Too tired, not disciplined enough, maybe not cut out for it. Mick said nothing, which was worse.
The Detail Nobody Noticed
The truth came out in a Tuesday conversation with his girlfriend Leah, who works nights at a call centre and sleeps badly. She asked why he kept turning his alarm off before it rang.
He hadn't realised he was doing it. Jake wasn't oversleeping at all. Every morning he woke a few seconds before the alarm, panicked that it would wake Leah, and cancelled it half asleep. Then he fell back into bed and woke up an hour late, feeling like a failure.
So he tried a silent bracelet. The first morning, the vibration came and nobody else in the flat heard a thing. Jake got up, pulled on his kit and was at the bottom of the Rivelin climb by 6:10, quicker than his usual warm up.
Mick noticed the next week. He didn't say a word about it, and just added a fifth ride to the plan.
A Quick Honest Note
Everyone responds to vibration differently, and hard training can mean deep sleep. Jake kept a phone alarm as a backup for the first fortnight, and a regular bedtime still does more for training than any gadget.
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How can I wake for early training without waking my partner?
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With WristUp you can store up to 8 alarms.
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