This is one of the biggest challenges I've found of trying to do competition prep. There is literally no time to spare to get in bed early in order to keep up the pace. I have always been a night owl and I like to stay up a little later to have some time to just sit and browse email, stare at the tv or read a book. This is something I just have to fight the urge to do, and go straight to bed if I have any chance of keeping up a schedule of morning cardio, my regular workday, PM training + cardio, get home, make food, lay out everything for the next day and get to bed. Incidental stuff like, doing laundry, keeping the house clean, getting gas in my car... all of this stuff always suffers because my daily schedule just barely has enough time to get enough done to get me to the next day. Then, when competition stress starts to do things like make you not able to relax and get to sleep, everything hurts, cramping from water drop, etc. That is when I really start to panic because losing a night of sleep has a couple days' worth of repercussion to recover.
