Help, is this normal?!
Am I the only one who actively looks forward to going to bed so that I can get up at 05:30am for a TrainerRoad session?
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Nope! I hurry to bed at night so I can wake up at 4:30am (for 2 hr workouts) or 5am (for 1.5 hr or less workouts). I can’t think of a better way to start my day.
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Fear motivates me. I look at my watch and think “Oh crap, if I don’t sleep now I am going to pay at 5:30am tomorrow!”
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Ive never been a morning person myself. Most of my workouts are in the evening and occasionally lunch time.
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Seek help immediately.
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Hoping for a 07:30 session but scared I might oversleep…so nervous…so not sleeping!
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I now have that damn Carly Simon song stuck in my head….so thanks for that. 
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Not me…sleeping till 7:30 these days…the work from home life is awesome.
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This is probably some sort of personality test:
Your first thought when you hear the word ‘anticipation’ is
A) Carly Simon?
B) The Rocky Horror Picture Show?
C) Heinz Ketchup?
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You really must be new to indoor training then…or otherwise I envy your anticipation for an indoor workout
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Not at all
My god, could you imagine the mess the make up would make on the sweat towel?
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It’s funny, I simply cannot motivate myself to train in the evening…family routines and 
take over!
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I, on the other hand, think “oh no, I’ve got x hours left until my little one wakes up at 6am.”
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I go to bed thinking that I’m excited to get on the bike at 7am and get those gains, but then when i wake up at 5am I’m about as far from that thought process as possible lol
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That’s not starting your day, that’s interrupting your night!!!
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Priorities and life. I think from my swimming background, I am a morning workout person.
Back in the day (literally around 20yrs ago) when I was more motivated and living in Los Angeles, I’d get up at 3:55a on Thursdays so I could put in a 2hr ride (up the coast from Brentwood/West LA) to Manhattan Beach and back in time for the La Grange loops and then home, shower, and drive to downtown to be at my desk by 8:30a. 4:30 or 5a was the normal wake-up, and it was 3:55 and not 4a because I needed the extra 5min.
Now, it’s up at 4 - 4:30a for a gravel ride in the forest or longer trail run. However, I can slack off and wake at 5 (still time for a short ride) or 5:30 (just time for a run) as for the past eight years I have to be Dad in the kitchen by 6:30a making breakfast and lunch for the kids.
I have an alarm on my watch for 5:50a every weekday that is either the “you’ve really screwed up and slept in, get up and walk the dog now rather than later” or a time check while on the ride or run. Sometimes the earlier go happens whether I wake up or not, usually I do not need an alarm to wake that early, which is both good (not getting startled awake) and bad (I really wanted to sleep “in”).
So, I don’t know that I “actively” look forward to going to bed as much as “it’s 9p and I’m starting to crash so if I don’t get to bed now, I’ll still wake naturally at 4:30 or 5a and suffer for not listening to my body now…”
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I don’t just have the song, I also have a picture of ketchup stuck in a glass bottle.
I almost never look forward to trainer rides. I see it more as a necessary evil.
I LOVE going to bed early to have coffee before sunrise and roll out for a ride as the sun crests at dawn though.
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