All of us athletes know how to make sure we get our workouts in when we're traveling for work. Pack your running shoes. Ask the front desk where to go running. Head to the hotel gym. Easy enough, right? But what about when you were only expecting to be gone for ~15 hours, and that 15 hours suddenly 35 hours? What do you do then?...
In anticipation of my 4am alarm Tuesday, I did a double workout Monday. I ran 7 miles in the morning, and then did 30 minutes on the elliptical and lifted weights at night. So when I left my apartment yesterday morning at 4:30am, I thought I was going to enjoy a nice recovery day. Boy was I wrong.
Here was the original plan: fly to JFK airport, go to a couple hours of meetings, head back to JFK to kill a few hours before my 6pm flight home. Home in time to see the series finale of the Hills ;)
Here's what actually happened...