Randall Scott Now in the Company of Benjamin Franklin, Napoleon, and Bob Seger

With Randall Scott Company radically expanding its product line (with the addition of Eddy Merckx Framesets, the awesome, sweet 2007 Carnac Shoe line, Pegoretti Frames, and Smith Optics with a hint of the eighties) the Founder/President, Randall Scott, is radically changing his lifestyle. The cycling season is closing in fast, and with the influx of business comes a workload that demands more than his usual thirteen hour a day. So like any good entrepreneur, Randall has quit sleeping.

“Rest When Your Dead” is the motto strewn across the grungy shirt he’s been wearing for the past eleven days, and “Uberman Sleep” is the new siesta strategy he plans to employ. For a normal human being I would expect this experiment to end with a straightjacket, but I once saw Randall eat a Biggie Frosty in eleven seconds, so anything is possible.

4 hours on - 30 minutes off - that's the plan, giving Randall three hours of sleep time. While this strategy is rare, it is also the calling card of geniuses dating back to Da Vinci. Even today P. Diddy uses this method so he can rap 21 hours a day. The list of beneficiaries is long, but to name a few: Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Paris Hilton, Thomas Edison, Napoleon, Huey Lewis, Lord Byron, and The Fonz are students of Uberman Sleep.

With a new pass to 24 hour fitness and a Minoura Trainer in the office Randall should still look like shaved steel, but will the deprivation get to him?

I’ll be documenting the progress of this experiment with flow charts of Randall’s productivity, randomly administered stress tests, and weekly headshots. So check here for weekly updates.