Alarm to get you out of bed for early training (but not your

[Jo]

How do you get up without waking a sleeping, cranky significant other?

Dh is a light sleeper and in the past has been woken up by my garmin set on vibrate. I’m now using an Apple Watch but still worried that the hum of the vibrations will be too much. Any ideas?

If you have a partner who’s a very light sleeper, what do you do? Training starts this weekend and I am worried.

[clseale]

We each have days we wake up early to run...the other person just falls back asleep. If he absolutely cannot manage to go back to sleep, then can you sleep in another room/on the couch? I’m not sure what your other options would be.

[Wines Not Whines]

I don’t think there’s a great solution if he wakes up to your watch buzzing. I would just be as considerate as possible and get up right away instead of letting your alarm go off for a long time, snooze, etc. Put all of your workout clothes in the bathroom the night before so you can get dressed in there instead of in your bedroom where he’s sleeping. He may wake up for a second, but hopefully he can go right back to sleep.

[orangello]

I would definitely wake up to a vibration noise if I was in a totally silent room - that noise is my phone ring the majority of the time, so I think I'm conditioned to pay attention to it.

Can you get a white noise machine and see if that helps? Otherwise, separate bedroom nights before you train.

[bullygirl979]

My H is a light sleeper and I go for 8am training runs on Saturdays. Most Friday nights I grab all my stuff, sleep in the guest room and get ready in the guest bath.

I feel your pain though...he asked me the other day "you aren't going to still get up and run at 8am when this half marathon is over, are you?" I didn't have the heart to tell him the answer was yes, I was still going to run most weekends. LOL.

[mrshandy]

bullygirl979, lol at running at 8AM on a weekend as too early.

I turn off my alarm right away and get dressed in the bathroom. H will sometimes sleep in the guest room if he doesn't want the brief wake up.

Otherwise, I can relate a little. I have a hard time getting back to sleep after I hear an alarm. It's just my nature. Luckily, it's very rare that H gets up earlier than me. LOL.

I would try sleeping in a separate room. It does suck getting woke up when you aren't getting up early.

[bullygirl979]

mrshandy, to be fair, I often have to drive 25 minutes to the location which brings me closer to 7:30. And then I need to get up a little early to eat, drink coffee, poop, etc. Lol. Which brings me closer to 6:45ish.

[foundmylazybum]

I don't worry about it? 🤔

Idk, this is just how life is husband.

You married a hot athletic lady. How did you think she actually GOT HOT AND ATHLETIC?


I appreciate his need to sleep by quickly turning off the alarm and being quick and quiet when I get dressed but...other than that, this is the time I get up, and only he can control his reaction.

🤷‍♀️

Maybe that makes me a monster, but I saw some other responses where people said sleep in other rooms OR THE COUCH.

Wat. No
No. I'm not sleeping on the couch bc my husband is a grump. Stop it.

[wawa]

Aug 1, 2019 10:28:30 GMT -5 foundmylazybum said:

I don't worry about it? 🤔

Idk, this is just how life is husband.

You married a hot athletic lady. How did you think she actually GOT HOT AND ATHLETIC?


I appreciate his need to sleep by quickly turning off the alarm and being quick and quiet when I get dressed but...other than that, this is the time I get up, and only he can control his reaction.

🤷‍♀️

Maybe that makes me a monster, but I saw some other responses where people said sleep in other rooms OR THE COUCH.

Wat. No
No. I'm not sleeping on the couch bc my husband is a grump. Stop it.

What she said. H and I both train. when once of us is sleeping in and the other gets up early you just deal. If he has a problem there's always the guest room.

The only time he's ever given me shit (and omg he was SO MAD. So so cranky.i was at Ragnar and got the angriest stream of texts ever and then he called me and hung up on me. Lol.) was when I went out of town and left my alarm clock set to 430 am...on a weekend. And in his fumbling to turn it off it woke up both kids.

[clseale]

Aug 1, 2019 10:28:30 GMT -5 foundmylazybum said:

I don't worry about it? 🤔

Idk, this is just how life is husband.

You married a hot athletic lady. How did you think she actually GOT HOT AND ATHLETIC?


I appreciate his need to sleep by quickly turning off the alarm and being quick and quiet when I get dressed but...other than that, this is the time I get up, and only he can control his reaction.

🤷‍♀️

Maybe that makes me a monster, but I saw some other responses where people said sleep in other rooms OR THE COUCH.

Wat. No
No. I'm not sleeping on the couch bc my husband is a grump. Stop it.

Well I would never do this either, but she seems super concerned about not waking him up. LOL I’m not. Her options here are limited and not at all complicated. He wakes up and deals, or someone takes a different room.

I don’t understand how this is even an issue, but maybe this is because DH and I have almost always woken up at different times, even for work. And when one of us is training our weekend wake up call is at 4:00. OP’s husband would divorce me.

[labbie]

My DH is a very light sleeper and when I have to wake before our 5:15 weekday alarm I sleep in the guest room or down in the family room. It's the only way he won't wake up. He didn't initiate this, it's me because I know how poorly he sleeps. 
Right now it's only 1-2 days a week at most, but when I had some wake up times beginning with 3 when I was ultra training, it was many days/week.

[bullygirl979]

foundmylazybum, LOL. It doesn't make you a monster. My H gets up at the ass crack of dawn M-F and he is SUPER careful to be ninja level quiet so I can sleep. I can deal with sleeping in the guest room to let him sleep in 1 morning when he lets me sleep in 5 mornings.

[al320]

Im scratching my head at 6:45 as being early on the weekends. If i slept that late, with no alarm, id be thrilled!

Sorry, im no help.

[breezy8407]

He just goes back to sleep. I am more worried about waking up my kids! My alarm is vibrate only on my phone. I try to be as quiet as possible though.

I often have to wake up before 4am (or earlier, FML) to catch a flight for work travel, which is a lot more getting ready time than workouts. Generally I don't work out in the early morning, but sometimes I will get up at 4:30 to make a 5:30 class. But if its workouts or work travel, he really doesn't get a say.

[Jo]

Lol and thanks. Yeah, I’m a little too concerned.. dh has genuine sleep issues and can get into Very Bad Patterns where he doesn’t get more than 4 hours sleep a night for months. It’s not fun.

I think the guest room is a last resort, but white noise and some earplugs might work and I hadn’t thought of those before, because of work/kids/training, I’ll basically just adjust to a 4:45 wake up for the next 5 months/forever, which is a hard hour for dh if he has a flare-up of sleep issues. But we will figure it out.


ETA: I'm not trying to be sarcastic - I really do agree that I’m being overly concerned and you all pointing this out is helpful.