Is running at 10 pm a good idea?

WildVolley

Legend
I personally can’t sleep for at least 3 hours after strenuous exercise. So unless you work a late 1-9 shift and are used to staying up until at least 2am, I’d pass on a workout that late.
I also have trouble falling asleep after vigorous exercise in the evening. I've limited my night tennis for this reason.

However, a healthy 26 year old shouldn't die from taking a jog at 10pm. I'm in my 50s and taking a jog at night wouldn't kill me. Something unusual happened to this man.
 

kevin qmto

Hall of Fame
I play in a night league and sometimes my matches don’t start till 9:30pm and run until 11:30. I usually try to get to bed between midnight and 1am so I don’t quite get 3 hours post exercise but I don’t immediately go to bed either.
 

WildVolley

Legend
Worst thing about running at night --- cracks or holes in the pavement, uneven sidewalk segments
Having to adjust to unseen and uneven ground helps your balance until your foot hits the edge of a curb and you roll your ankle. Also, depending on where you live, it rather ups the danger level. When I lived in DC, jogging through my neighborhood at night greatly upped your chances of being shot or stabbed.
 

Injured Again

Hall of Fame
When my kids were young, I was doing long distance cycling events and competing in running races and duathlons. I’d train after the kids were asleep, usually starting around 10 pm and finishing up around midnight, either cycling or running.

I learned how to shut my body and mind down quickly, so I was asleep by 1 am for my 5:30 am wake up. I did this for around 15 years, from about age 32 to my later 40’s.
 

WildVolley

Legend
When my kids were young, I was doing long distance cycling events and competing in running races and duathlons. I’d train after the kids were asleep, usually starting around 10 pm and finishing up around midnight, either cycling or running.

I learned how to shut my body and mind down quickly, so I was asleep by 1 am for my 5:30 am wake up. I did this for around 15 years, from about age 32 to my later 40’s.
Were you living on 4 and a half hours of sleep each day?
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
When my kids were young, I was doing long distance cycling events and competing in running races and duathlons. I’d train after the kids were asleep, usually starting around 10 pm and finishing up around midnight, either cycling or running.

I learned how to shut my body and mind down quickly, so I was asleep by 1 am for my 5:30 am wake up. I did this for around 15 years, from about age 32 to my later 40’s.
Wonder if you earned your name ‘Injured Again’ and the double-digit surgeries because of sleeping 4.5 hours for 15 hours. Humans need more sleep or their bodies and minds don’t function properly.
 

Injured Again

Hall of Fame
Were you living on 4 and a half hours of sleep each day?
I didn’t work out every day - probably only three out of five work week days. The other two days were spent studying and I got to sleep by midnight. I would always sleep one long day on the weekends where I’d get 10-12 continuous hours of sleep and that seemed to revitalize me. All the experts say that is the absolute wrong thing to do because you can’t catch up on sleep, but it was either that or give up doing what I love and what kept me physically fit.
 

Injured Again

Hall of Fame
Wonder if you earned your name ‘Injured Again’ and the double-digit surgeries because of sleeping 4.5 hours for 15 hours. Humans need more sleep or their bodies and minds don’t function properly.

Like I said, life circumstances dictated I either do that or don’t do the things I love, which were to have children, spend quality time with my family and wife in the evenings, and physically exercise. My philosophy was that life is not guaranteed - I could die any day if a bus runs me over crossing a street. So I lived life to the full extent I could manage.

I don’t think my sleep patterns were responsible for any of my major injuries. My left shoulder injury was from a crash in a bike race where a rider chopped my front wheel as I was passing him. My right shoulder’s pec and biceps tendon tear was during a bench press. My left ankle rupture was during a USTA league match where I pushed off and my perineal retinaculum gave way. My c7/c8 spinal fusion was the result of a lifetime of throwing and overhead sports. And my left knee replacement was just from me wearing it out.

Those were tough years but I think the only effect the lack of sleep caused was early burnout from work, which led me to retire at age 55. That wasn’t from any brain deficit issues but because after a 30 year career in tech where spending a few hours each day just to keep up was the norm, I just ran out of the will to do so.

I do now sleep about ten hours each night and it feels MAHVELOUS!
 

socallefty

G.O.A.T.
Sleep deprived people are more accident-prone and have more inflammation in their bodies.


“Sleep deficiency is linked to many chronic health problems, including heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity, and depression.

Sleep deficiency is also linked to a higher chance of injury in adults, teens, and children. For example, sleepiness while driving (not related to alcohol) is responsible for serious car crash injuries and death. In older adults, sleep deficiency may be linked to a higher chance of falls and broken bones.”
 

Rosstour

G.O.A.T.
I also have trouble falling asleep after vigorous exercise in the evening. I've limited my night tennis for this reason.

However, a healthy 26 year old shouldn't die from taking a jog at 10pm. I'm in my 50s and taking a jog at night wouldn't kill me. Something unusual happened to this man.

Yeah, this was a congenital defect that went undiagnosed.

His daughter's birthday is the same as my daughter's. That was a little chilling

I think jogging in general isn't super healthy
 

Injured Again

Hall of Fame
Sleep deprived people are more accident-prone and have more inflammation in their bodies.


“Sleep deficiency is linked to many chronic health problems, including heart disease, kidney disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, stroke, obesity, and depression.

Sleep deficiency is also linked to a higher chance of injury in adults, teens, and children. For example, sleepiness while driving (not related to alcohol) is responsible for serious car crash injuries and death. In older adults, sleep deficiency may be linked to a higher chance of falls and broken bones.”

None of those issues apply to me. At age 63, I take no prescription meds, my blood pressure is 115/65, and I’m anything but depressed. I am sure, though, that if I had not done the things I did, I would have gotten more sleep but be overweight and miserable, probably suffering from many common issues associated with obesity and diabetes.
 

WildVolley

Legend
Like I said, life circumstances dictated I either do that or don’t do the things I love, which were to have children, spend quality time with my family and wife in the evenings, and physically exercise. My philosophy was that life is not guaranteed - I could die any day if a bus runs me over crossing a street. So I lived life to the full extent I could manage.

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I just couldn't function on that amount of sleep unless I was doing some serious illegal stimulants during the day which would have significantly shortened my life. People are really different. Some people can seemingly thrive on diets and lifestyles that would wreck other people.
 
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