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The American statesman Ben Franklin once wrote \u201c\xa0 There may be something to that with respect to our running performance. We sleep, on average a full one third of our lives.\xa0 So, as a middle aged, middle of the pack, slightly asthmatic 48 year old runner: I\u2019ve already slept 16 years of my life away.\xa0 It seems like an unfair trade off: 16 years of my life that I could have spent in a conscious state of productivity\u2026but when we consider that the time spent sleeping helps to improve the quality of the two thirds of our life when we are awake: it\u2019s easy to see that the horizontal investment is a sound one.\nLinks:\n\n\n\n\n \xa0\nThe song \u201cSlow Down\u201d was by Black Lab off their new album: \u201cTwo Strangers\u201d available on iTunes, Amazon MP3 and at