Le Mans Lethargy
Discussion
Anyone got any ideas how best to deal with Le Mans Lethargy. Having achieved no more than 4 hrs sleep a night since Wednesday (I normally have at least 8) I am feeling a bit worse for wear today.
So what is best? I have a caffeine intolerance so can’t take loads of coffee/Red Bull – but I am off work until tomorrow. So do I take ‘cat naps’ when I feel tired or just try and carry on but perhaps going to bed a couple of hours earlier than normal.
So what is best? I have a caffeine intolerance so can’t take loads of coffee/Red Bull – but I am off work until tomorrow. So do I take ‘cat naps’ when I feel tired or just try and carry on but perhaps going to bed a couple of hours earlier than normal.
With jetlag, they recommend suffering through your tiredness the first day and resisting the urge to take a nap as it will make it more difficult to go to sleep when you should. ie, if you arrive in the morning from the US, you'll be beat but should try to make it until 8 or 9 pm and sleep a full night's "sleep of the dead". Taking a nap may make it difficult to sleep the full night and prolongs the jetlag effects several days.
That being said, yesterday I took a one hour nap (I only had 3 hours sleep before going to work yesterday) and I had absolutely zero trouble getting to sleep at night.
Don't know if I've answered the question...
That being said, yesterday I took a one hour nap (I only had 3 hours sleep before going to work yesterday) and I had absolutely zero trouble getting to sleep at night.
Don't know if I've answered the question...
gt5s_1985 said:
Hey, some of are back in the office today... 
Having said that... I did turn up two hours late..
Hey, some were back in the office yesterday!
(Note that there is a difference between "being in the office" and "working"... I was somewhat lethargic myself yesterday..
agreed, productivity isn't that high.... andyvdg said:
Last night I was too tired to watch Top Gear or even any of the hours of video footage I took the last few days. Felt jetlagged this morning. Must do some work before I go home......
haha lol, you should have gone to bed earlier like those sensible people in the tent next to ya !!
andyvdg said:
Thanks for the alarm call in the morning - we left at 8:45 in the end.
Cheers,
Andy.
No problem. Thought the clanking of tent poles and farting would have been enought to rouse you both but obviously the temporary deafness from the rest of the weekend was usefull for something. (at least I hope it's temporary).
Cheers for all you advice etc over the weekend and hopefully see you next year.
Dave.
Me too - feel pants today 
I'm on a fortnight's holiday now and think I might need that to recover!
Speaking of wake-up calls yesterday morning. Funny isn't it how all my ostentatiously noisy packing failed to rouse Griffdude, but that he stuck his head out of his tent approximately 1 millisecond after I put the kettle on?
Pod & AlfEssex - you two both looked fine yesterday at the ferry. My hat fell off when I fell asleep in the car on the drive up and I've got a fabulous sunburn blister on the end of my nose today to match the black eyes I picked up on Saturday
So I've got an excuse for being confined to the house.
I'm on a fortnight's holiday now and think I might need that to recover! Speaking of wake-up calls yesterday morning. Funny isn't it how all my ostentatiously noisy packing failed to rouse Griffdude, but that he stuck his head out of his tent approximately 1 millisecond after I put the kettle on?
Pod & AlfEssex - you two both looked fine yesterday at the ferry. My hat fell off when I fell asleep in the car on the drive up and I've got a fabulous sunburn blister on the end of my nose today to match the black eyes I picked up on Saturday
So I've got an excuse for being confined to the house. numb skull said:
Still not "with it"... just dropped hundreds and thousands from my FAB ice lolly into the keybaord...
Didn't know you could still get FAB ice lollies. I thought they'd gone the same way as Spangles and Magic Moon Dust.
Hmm... perhaps I should have checked the sell-by date...
rude girl said:
Pod & AlfEssex - you two both looked fine yesterday at the ferry.
I was OK yesterday afternoon... tiredness seems to have hit today... although it may be something to do with working in a sweltering office...
Can't speak for Alf, but he looked bloody knackered by the time we got back...
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