Pro's and Con's of 5:00 am

5:00 am is a good hour depending on the topic of conversation. Getting up on race day? Good hour. Sleeping? Good hour. Getting up to go to work? HORRIBLE hour! I often lay in bed thinking, as I'm sure everyone does, "Just 5 more minutes!" with the end result of getting up 45 minutes after the intended "wake-up, get-up" time. And then I realize, "Oh wonderful! I have a full 5 minutes to get ready and walk out the door! It's gonna be a great day!" But then on the flip side, having that 30 minutes to an hour before my first class starts at 8:30 or 9:00 (I work from 6:00 to 8:00) to eat breakfast and have a little down time is really nice. I guess if I wasn't laying in bed hitting the snooze button at 5:00 I'd be doing it at 7:30. It's gotta be done sometime. ;)