Parkrun to marathon, road and trail
The easiest miles you will ever bank are the ones you sleep through.
Legs like lead on a Tuesday, a 5am alarm for the long run, and a body that runs warm for hours after. Runners are good at discipline and bad at rest. The mattress can fix the second half of that.
Your day
Adaptation happens lying down
Consistency wins races. Consistency needs sleep.
The run is the stimulus. The adaptation, the new capillaries, the repaired muscle fibres, the stronger tendons, happens in the deep sleep afterwards. Skimp on that and you are training hard and adapting slowly, which is how people plateau and pick up injuries.
After a hard session the body stays warm for hours. A mattress that holds heat keeps you out of deep sleep. The Zero Gravity range with the Zero Tex or gel tops was built to run cool, and the pocket springs let the legs settle without pressure on the hips.
Why it matters
What better sleep does for a runner
Injury risk
Athletes on short sleep pick up significantly more injuries. Tendons repair at night. So does the will to stretch.
The long run
Glycogen restocks and legs freshen overnight. The Sunday long run feels different on a full night than on five broken hours.
The head
Motivation to lace up in the rain is a sleep thing as much as a character thing.
The Zero Gravity range
Built for deep sleep, not just hours
Our own Signature Beds range, made in Britain. Four mattresses that share one idea: take the pressure off, keep you cool, keep you level, so you stay in the deep stages of sleep where recovery actually happens.
The Zero Gravity layer spreads your weight across the whole surface instead of loading the hips and shoulders, so you shift less and stay in deep sleep longer.
Zero Tex and gel-infused tops are built not to hold heat. Core temperature has to drop for the body to go into deep sleep; a hot mattress fights that all night.
Pocket springs move independently under you. Whatever you did to your back today, it is not being held in a bend for eight hours.
Made to order in around two weeks. Every one is on the showroom floor in Clydebank to lie on for as long as it takes to be sure.
Our pick for you
Two to start with
Both on the floor in Clydebank. Prices are for a single; doubles and kings are on each product page. Every mattress in the range is made to order in around two weeks.
Nevis 1000
Medium with the Zero Tex cooling top. Springy, breathable, cradles the hips without hugging you. The runner’s mattress in the range.
- 1000 pocket springs, edge to edge
- Zero Gravity comfort layer
- Zero Tex cooling top, non-heat-retentive
- No-turn, rotate only
Ocean 1000
Same idea with a cooling gel infusion in the Zero Gravity layer for people who run properly hot at night.
- 1000 pocket springs
- Zero Gravity foam with cooling gel infusion
- Weightless, floating feel
- No-turn, rotate only
Try before you buy
Ten minutes on it beats any review
Lie on each one, in the position you sleep in, for as long as you like. Family-run showroom above the Co-op in Clydebank, Monday to Saturday 9 to 5. 0% finance over up to 12 months.
Racing soon? Sleep in the week before a race matters more than the night before. Get the bed sorted early.