Running, babies and sleep This post is in conjunction with TEMPUR® but all thoughts and sleepless nights are my own. Sleep! If there’s one thing new parents love to talk, compare and commiserate about, it’s sleep. This is something I wouldn’t share with my mum friends because 1) I don’t want to jinx it and 2) nobody wants to hear it when their own child has been crying half the night, but my baby is actually sleeping pretty well right now. That’s great news for my mood, my stress levels and my running. He hasn’t always slept well, and there’ve been occasions when I’ve been so tired from a sleepless night that I’ve laughed in the face of scheduled runs. I’m just not motivated to do them and I don’t think they’d be good for me. Baby or no baby, you can’t perform well and you can’t recover well if you don’t sleep well. That’s something that the past nine months have emphasised for me. I still sleep with a pillow between my legs when I sleep on my side, the legacy of pregnancy hips a...