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<blockquote data-quote="evileeyore" data-source="post: 6354138" data-attributes="member: 1768">Hygiene.&nbsp; Armor repairs.&nbsp; Cleaning the armor.&nbsp; Sexual encounters.&nbsp; Not being in a dangerous place or situation (many cities would frown on non-Watch personnel wearing armor).&nbsp; Etc.When I was younger and in great shape I was the same.&nbsp; 2-4 hours of sleep most days, the occasional &quot;crash day&quot; of 8-10.Now that I'm older and in crappy shape my insomnia really puts a cramp on my capacities.&nbsp; Now I medicate on the bad nights to ensure I fall asleep and stay asleep.&nbsp; Which has it's own drawbacks.Definitely.&nbsp; Every year at at SCA tourneys here in Florida they have Northerners who come down and wear their heavy armors... every year there are one or two who &quot;fall out&quot; from heat stroke or heat exhaustion because they aren't used to dealing with the heat and humidity and think they can just run about wearing heavy leathers or metal armor and because they are young and strong and fit &quot;that stuff won;t affect them&quot;.The &quot;danger&quot; there though is more from sweating heavily in your clothes and then when you stop laboring those dampened clothes cool very, very rapidly and don't retain heat the way are supposed to.&nbsp; It's honestly better if laboring heavily in the cold to remove a few layers to cool you before you're sweating and then put those layers back on when you're done working out.I've had socks and pants get sweat soaked and then had ice form on them when I stopped working (of course riding on the back of the truck in wind and cold didn't help).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="evileeyore, post: 6354138, member: 1768"] Hygiene. Armor repairs. Cleaning the armor. Sexual encounters. Not being in a dangerous place or situation (many cities would frown on non-Watch personnel wearing armor). Etc. When I was younger and in great shape I was the same. 2-4 hours of sleep most days, the occasional "crash day" of 8-10. Now that I'm older and in crappy shape my insomnia really puts a cramp on my capacities. Now I medicate on the bad nights to ensure I fall asleep and stay asleep. Which has it's own drawbacks. Definitely. Every year at at SCA tourneys here in Florida they have Northerners who come down and wear their heavy armors... every year there are one or two who "fall out" from heat stroke or heat exhaustion because they aren't used to dealing with the heat and humidity and think they can just run about wearing heavy leathers or metal armor and because they are young and strong and fit "that stuff won;t affect them". The "danger" there though is more from sweating heavily in your clothes and then when you stop laboring those dampened clothes cool very, very rapidly and don't retain heat the way are supposed to. It's honestly better if laboring heavily in the cold to remove a few layers to cool you before you're sweating and then put those layers back on when you're done working out. I've had socks and pants get sweat soaked and then had ice form on them when I stopped working (of course riding on the back of the truck in wind and cold didn't help). [/QUOTE]

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