Thursday, December 9, 2010
Jet lag
When I was younger I took a fourteen hour flight from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia. Sydney is actually 14 hours ahead of us so it took a lot of time for my body to adjust. For the first couple nights I had trouble falling asleep and staying asleep as well as waking up at a certain time. However, after a couple of days my body adjusted and I could sleep somewhat normally. I stayed there for a month and when it came to for me to come home, my sleep cycle became abnormal all over again. It again took about three days to fully adjust to the time change.
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Jet lag is a very common problem. I know exactly what it feels like, too. I remember when I was on the gymnastics team for the YMCA and we used to travel all of the time. We went to Wisconsin and California...all over the place. However, I really could tell how it affected me when I got to meets the next morning. My first time traveling for gymnastics, I stayed up so late because my sleep cycle was thrown off. However, by the time the morning came around though it was 9 am and I am usually wide awake by then, I couldn't even budge. Though I typically did well at away meets, I always did better when meets were in our time zones. Nationals in Pennsylvania and New York, for example, were some of my highest performing meets. However, though I still did well, I could've done much better in California had I not been suffering from jet lag from my flight the night before.
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