Volleyball Marathon: Recovery

Hello all. As I have previously mentioned, Volleyball Marathon was on Friday Night. I realize that I probably have not explained this event very well. Volleyball Marathon is an event put on by my high school once every year. It's when you teams of ten go to the school at 6pm on a Friday night and spend all night playing volleyball at scheduled times against other teams. No one can leave until 7am the next morning. Most people don't sleep because then you miss your games and such. It sounds like hell, but it's actually really fun. Each team has their own t-shirts and names and stuff. It's great. 

Well, staying up all night has its downsides. Especially when you have to work the next day. So I was up all night. I didn't sleep at all from the time I woke up for school (6:20am). I had to be at work on saturday for like 9am and hate to work until 5pm. I knew that if I took a nap inbetween 7am & 9am that getting up for work would be 10x harder than if I just stayed up. So I did. So I go through work and it's like 5:15pm. Previously my friends had asked me if I wanted to go out on Saturday night and I was like sure! I completely forgot the Volleyball Marathon was on Friday. I couldn't cancel on them so I got ready to go out. By that time I was running on pure adrenaline. No sugar, no energy drinks, nothing. I didn't end up getting home and going to bed until 11:50ish on Saturday night. 

Calculate with me, if you will, the number of hours I stayed up. 6:20am ti 6:20am is 24 hours. then 6:20am to 6:20pm is another 12 hours. So now we're up to 36 hours without sleep. 6:20pm to 11:20pm is another 5 hours. And then another 30 minutes to get to 11:50pm. All together 24+12+5+0.5= 41.5 hours without sleep. This, my friends, is complete insanity and I do not recommend it. 

You'd think I would've slept all sunday too. Nope. I slept until 11:45-11:50am on Sunday morning. 12 hours. I slept a total of 12 hours after being up for 41.5. This is not okay. To this day, I am exhausted. I do have to applaud myself though. Even though I was up for that many hours without sleep, I was not cranky nor was I a bitch to anyone. Good job Hayley! Well, this is it. That is my story. Have a good night guys!