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General control line discussion => Open Forum => Topic started by: frank carlisle on June 14, 2010, 03:25:02 AM
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It's a quarter after 5 in the morning and I'm having a smoke and a cup of coffee and mulling over whether I've got everything packed. I'm heading for Brodak this morning. I have a 350 mile road trip and a week of playing model airplanes with 200 or so of my closest friends. I NEED to be rested up. Bur all night I tossed and turned and never got more than about three hours of sleep.I'll make the run on adrenaline and caffiene.
Does anybody sleep like a baby the night before a contest? If so, how do you do it? Z@@ZZZ
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I rarely sleep good. My son is getting ready for work and i'm still up.
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Well...truth be known...I make sure I sleep by taking an Ambien...no dreams
and sleep like a brick...otherwise it would be the same...tossing and turning wondering if it's all packed and ready...
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Well Dang!! I guess that's my problem. I used to get all keyed up and anxious, but I don't anymore. I hope the thrill isn't completely gone.
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I usually can't sleep before the long road trip to a contest. When I finally get there, I'm usually so wired from caffeine, nicotine and fatigue I can't fly for squat till I get some sleep.
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When I fly I put the judges to sleep. Most of the time they wish they had slept in. So, if you are having trouble getting to sleep I'll send you a tape of my latest flight. Works every time!
Richard
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Used to be that way. Guess I am gettig old. When Mother and I moved back to KC the first contest was at Swope Park. Had the car packed and ready to go. Did have a full tank of fuel, that day I got a locking gas cap. I was up and shaving after taking bath. Mother looks in and asks me what I am doing. I told her I was getting ready to go. Was told to go look at the clock. Two o'clock in the morning and the alarm was still set. Then I slept like a baby. H^^
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When I fly I put the judges to sleep. Most of the time they wish they had slept in. So, if you are having trouble getting to sleep I'll send you a tape of my latest flight. Works every time!
Richard
Richard,
I have seen you fly,, no I dont think its boring,, I have seen some new and creative new manuevers in YOUR pattern.
Mark
" always watching for the new and different ways to screw up the pattern"
serious, it was a good contest, beautifull weather,, well except for the variable wind gusts saturday, oh and the nice little bout of turbulance sunday lol,
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I slept like a baby before the Stunt-A-Thon. Probably due to moving furniture and driving 350 miles the day before.
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I slept like a baby before the Stunt-A-Thon.
You mean you woke up crying every two hours? (rimshot!) ;D n~ >:D LL~ LL~
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The Jive Combat Team
Stays up late with the groupies.
That's why we doze off
In the round outside loopies.
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Why should a contest be any more important than a first day of school, a night of camping, or a night in a motel room with two rooms full of sleeping relatives and a TV with a test pattern on it and an AM radio playing WWL out of New Orleans with Buck Owens singing about having a tiger by the tail? I haven't slept since 1964.
Careful with the Ambien. Lest you find yourself asleep and applying monokote or cooking dinner for three or driving to McDonald's for a chocolate milk shake. One of the Kennedy family miscreants was arrested for driving while on Ambien a few years back. Me? I just wondered who had left the ingredients and the dirty dishes from what must have been a great omlette (I'm a pretty good cook) and a half pot of coffee in the kitchen, and then woke up remembering nothing more than some silly-assed dream of Dolly Parton asking me (in a most sincere Kentucky drawl) if I wanted to see the other one. I did.
Ambien is harsh stuff - please be careful. Lunesta is a great substitute (albeit expensive). And if all else fails, try counting by thirteens to ten thousand and back while listening to Pink Floyd.
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Jack Daniels and Vicodin seem to work pretty well for me..
And "Comfortably Numb" playing in the background also helps.
L.
"There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them!" -Richard P. Feynman
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Maybe it's because I suck in competition, but I sleep fine...
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If you know how you will do (it sucks), there are no nerves to overcome. I figure I have risen as far in the pilot rankings as I ever will, and it will be pure luck to do better. No stress, no strain, ENJOY.
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Does anybody sleep like a baby the night before a contest? If so, how do you do it? Z@@ZZZ
NO!
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Jack Daniels and Vicodin seem to work pretty well for me..
Now that has some possibilities.