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Do you train sleep debt too? Do they?
Sleep debt is a thing. Anyone can have it. I have it in spades because offspring.
Personally I don't think you can't train how you deal with little sleep, but you can minimise your sleep debt on the way into an event, you do this by getting lots of sleep prior to the event; it's that easy (and so easy to get wrong).
During the event is a whole different kettle of fish. People will deal with it differently, somewhere along a continuum; some people crack after being awake 14 hours, some can go days without sleep, or a week on one or two hours a night.
What you have to do is do longer and longer rides to find out what kind of person you are.
Personally I found the early days of MiniGB way more exhausting than 10 hours of sleep during a 5 day 1400km cycle ride. Different demands and all that...
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Do you train sleep debt too? Do they?
I wonder...
I wonder if any of them get up after a few hours sleep for a ride, then maybe go back to bed. Or just train to be the strongest they can and let sleep debt be what it is when it is.
It's a whole new scope in training technique.