Sleep Your Way to Better Running: Dr Shelby Harris
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🗓️ 30 June 2021
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Is a lack of great sleep ruining our lives and our running? Claire wanted to find out, so she invited sleep expert Dr Shelby Harris on the show to talk about it.
Dr. Harris is the former director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the Sleep-Wake Disorders Center at Montefiore Medical Center. Now in private practice in White Plains, NY, she treats a wide variety of sleep disorders such as insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm disorders, narcolepsy, and more using evidence-based behavioral treatments. She has researched the neuropsychological effects of insomnia in older adults as well as behavioral treatments for insomnia, parasomnias, narcolepsy, and excessive daytime sleepiness.
Dr. Harris has written for the New York Times and Psychology Today and has been quoted in media such as The Huffington Post, The New Yorker, Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, and New York Magazine. She has appeared on the Today Show, World News with Diane Sawyer, Good Morning America, and more.
In other words, she knows a lot about sleep and she is a runner herself. Claire asks her how we can better decide to prioritize sleep over running and whether afternoon runners or morning runners are doing a better job with their sleep. She talks about how much sleep we really need and how to get more of it.
And if you are a runner with kids, this episode is especially for you because your little ones might just need a little more sleep too.
And just so you know, if you are listening to this at 2am because you can't sleep and you just happen to fall into dreamland before the show is over, we will take it as a compliment!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Dr. Shelby Harris, and you're listening to the Run to the Top |
| 0:11.1 | podcast. Hi there, my running friend, this is Coach Claire Bartholic, the Planted Runner, |
| 0:22.0 | and this is the Run to the Top Podcast, one of the first and only |
| 0:25.6 | running podcast dedicated to making you a better runner with each and every episode. |
| 0:30.8 | We are created and produced by the expert team of running coaches at runnersconnect.net where you can find the best running information on the internet as well as running coaching plans to fit every runner and every budget. |
| 0:44.0 | We all know that good running comes from good training and good nutrition. |
| 0:52.0 | And you probably also know that running comes from good training and good nutrition. |
| 0:53.0 | And you probably also know that good sleep is pretty important as well. |
| 0:58.0 | But let's get real here. |
| 0:59.0 | Sometimes we have to sacrifice a little sleep to get in a run before the kids wake up. And maybe we stay up a little too late |
| 1:06.0 | catching up with our spouse after the kids go to bed. Or perhaps you are the type of person that |
| 1:11.6 | diligently prioritizes sleep hitting the sacram. perhaps you are the type of person that diligently |
| 1:13.0 | prioritizes sleep, hitting the sack early every night, |
| 1:16.3 | only to find yourself wide awake at 2 a.m. |
| 1:19.2 | Yep, that's me. |
| 1:21.4 | Is all of this lack of perfect sleep ruining our lives and our running? I wanted to find out. So I invited sleep expert Dr. Shelby Harris on the show to talk about it. |
| 1:33.0 | Dr. Harris is the former director of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program |
| 1:37.0 | at the Sleep Wake Disorders Center at Monofiori Medical Center. |
| 1:41.0 | Now in private practice in White Plains, New York, she treats a wide |
| 1:46.8 | variety of sleep disorders such as insomnia, nightmares, circadian rhythm disorders, |
| 1:51.6 | narcolepsy, and more, using evidence-based behavioral treatments |
| 1:57.3 | instead of drugs. |
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