When you're on the road a lot, it can go one of two ways: you get excited about switching up your views and love getting your workouts in, or you're just exhausted and want some down time. For me, it's not 100% one or the other. My usual view: Kindle, work iPad to catch up …
Continue reading Traveling while Training: Staying Motivated
When traveling, there is so much control you have to give up, or risk being constantly frustrated. When you're training for something, giving up control is pretty much the last thing you want to do, but stick with me here, it's the only way to make it through and stay healthy, mentally and physically. But …
Continue reading Traveling while Training: It’s the Little Stuff
AZ perfection As I write this, I’m at the end of a full week of traveling for work (with a day and a half of AZ sunshine by myself on the back end), and this week is in the early part of 9 weeks of travel. To say that it puts my training at risk …
I travel a lot but there's something about going home that has a tendency to take me off track. Since I'm heading to the airport this morning, I figured I'd share how I'm setting myself up for success. When packing for work trips I'm always boring: workout stuff for 90% of my nights gone, work …
With all my work travel, I've had the opportunity to test my own ability to make healthy decisions when traveling. Holiday travel, however, always pushes those tests just a little bit further! You've got the perfect storm of celebrations, travel, family & friends, and, if everyone's been good, lots of candy, cookies and pie. So …
As I write this, I'm drinking too much wine in an airport bar, on my second work trip of the week, because my flight was one of about 100 that were cancelled due to air congestion. "What does this have to do with running" you might ask. Hang tight. I'll get there. The last couple …
Continue reading Winter Weather Advisory: Flight Delays, Wine Bars, and Winter Training Options
Over the last few years, I've had the misfortune of traveling a lot for work. I've gotten to see a number of cities, or at least their airports, a few amazing restaurants, and some of the most average conference rooms in there world. In my current job, my travel, while still happening weekly, involves a …
For some reason, getting this race recap written up was as tough as the race itself. But here we go, starting with the expo! Rock n Roll races have notoriously good expos (see my previous review here) and this one lived up to it. I actually went twice, and still walked out with only one …
Continue reading Rock n Roll Philly Expo Review & runWestin Run Concierge Debut
To save this from becoming a short book, I'm splitting my Racecation Recap into several parts, and starting with the one that will hit home with all my running and shopping readers: Rock n Roll Chicago Expo Review Arrival I will cover this in more depth in a separate post, but runWestin tested their new …
Continue reading Chicago Racecation Recap Part 1: Rock n Roll Chicago Expo
*Disclaimer: I was not compensated by Sheraton or Starwood in any way for this review. I am, however, a Starwood Preferred Guest, so I did receive points for this stay. All opinions are strictly my own* I'm not a consultant, but there are weeks or months that I feel like one given my travel schedule. …