Sleep.

"You'll sleep when you're dead," some people say.

"You'll sleep when you're dead tired," is more accurate.

i've always had a problem with sleeping. From when I was young and would hide under the covers with a book and a torch (eventually mum and dad worked out why none of the torches ever had charged batteries), to University working a job from 1am-7am and only sleeping for a few hours a day, it's never come easy to me. 

And then the internet happened, and took the place of the books and torches of yesteryear. Six hours of sleep a night, if lucky. Reading articles that would be there in the morning but just had to be read now cos the page was already loaded, damnit.

And now, clipper is happening. If the conditions are anything like last week on my level 2 training, there won't be much reading. There's no internet. Some days I'll be working 1am, and some days I'll be trying to sleep. Trying being the operative word. Maybe I'm afraid I'll miss something. Maybe I'll get used to the rocking of the boat and the sound of the wind and the sails and the waves and the crew members. And maybe I'll just sleep when I'm dead tired. Either way, it's closer now, and sleep is more precious, so if I choose to sleep instead of hanging out, it's nothing personal, it's a small attempt to get ahead of the game and not die of exhaustion too early in the race....