Hello and welcome to the back-to-back pod. It's Thursday, and that means

nerdish wrote. I am your host, David Ford, joining me, as always, coach David, not Dave. Thorpe, coach, a couple weeks ago, I started tracking my sleep. Do you wear like a smart watch or anything? Do you believe in that stuff at all? No, I mean, I don't care of anyone else. Okay. I don't wear real watches every day, every night anyway. I don't wear

digital stuff. Okay. Now, normally I can't sleep with a watch on. I used to wear like a Timex,

like one of those $25 weekend or watches, but I got an Apple watch. I like it for tracking workouts

and things like that, but I've been wanting to track my sleep because I'm trying to pay more attention to it as I get older.

I realize how important it is, how terrible I feel when I don't get sleep.

So I've been tracking my sleep.

And the number one indicator for whether or not I'm getting a good night sleep or not, do you want to guess what it is?

Whether the Warriors play bad or not I'm getting a good night sleep or not. Do you want to guess what it is? Whether the Warriors played bad or not. No, actually, it's alcohol, which that's really bumming me out.

Yeah, so, and then the best night's sleep I got was going to bed at 10 o'clock instead of staying up till

midnight. How is that even defined?

As someone who is a fan of sleep for my athletes, how is good sleep to find?

So it's getting, getting eight hours, eight to nine hours, whatever.

You actually decide.

Yeah.

And then what it does is it looks at the ratio of deep sleep, REM sleep, light sleep,

how many times you wake up and what your heart rate does during that sleep. So like my dog woke

me up in the middle of one night. And that's a that gives you a big spike in in bad time, right?

Because you don't want to be woken up.

And so, yeah, it's been really fun to track. And I think that, like, at the end of six months,

I might actually kind of put the results out and say, look, you can see as the season goes along

and I get, you know, I'm getting less and less sleep or more and more sleep, depending on how the season goes.

...