I finished the week with just over 60 miles, with a couple of “quicker “efforts in there.
While this week was pretty good for travel and with what my general exercise approach has been for the last few year, today was a bit tough. I slept poorly, woke up swollen and thirsty (probably the dinner out we had last night) and was jogging with that heavy sore leg feeling and sweating like I was in a sauna. I almost bagged the idea of getting out but I knew a run would “flush it out” and so I stuck with it.
The last eight weeks have included some level of business travel. I have another one this week – hitting two locations (NJ and GA) and then I get a few weeks of a break from the travel game. Looking ahead for the rest of the year, I have a trip to PHX for NXR, a DC 2 day trip and maybe a 10 day swing to Singapore.
I have a handful of ideas of things I think I might post about what I have learned from this “my own business” / entrepreneur / consultant / traveler thing, but they are not really great insights … mostly it is showing up, doing the reps, learning, seeking the work I want, etc. So probably boring posts.
The thing with the travel for work … is not the work itself actually, but it is the challenge of time being wasted. Time being wasted going through security at the airport, wasted with delays of flights for all sort of reasons from weather to parts for the plane to a late crew or someone having checked their luggage onto the plane but now they are not on the plane because they are drunk somewhere in the airport. These things happen but it is sum of the time wasted that you become hugely aware of. You are sort of trapped in the travel circuit and you wish you could be out somewhere else, with family, out running, anywhere but where you are.
This time waste has a way of wearing on you, breaking you down, so I have turned it into my own test of how can I not let this get to me and how can I focus this time appropriately. I recognize it is not worth griping about because it is what I have signed up for. I look to maximize the time by flipping open the laptop and banging on the keys or reading a book (or listening to one) or catching up on calls. The challenge is when you get to the airport and they tell you, “well the flight is going to leave 2 hours later than you thought” and you just think about how you could have left home a bit later, maybe did something else instead.
Just think about when that actual Star Trek transporter stuff comes down …
I’m kicking around a few races for the rest of the year, including a local XC race in Boulder in a few weeks, the open 5k at NXR and probably a Thanksgiving affair. I have no specific or hard set goals for these other than to keep lining up … I enjoy the efforts.
It was a beautiful weekend in Colorado … fall but warm enough for t-shirt and shorts.
The boy-man has taken up off season training.
On Saturday TZ had to speak at the new local cider house (Stem Ciders) in Lafayette. She is on the board for an effort called “Anchor House” - which is a project to build out transitional housing for emancipated foster youth. 
It is a great project –different community resources pulling together to help people in need and giving them a place to make the next step. I am super proud of TZ in being involved in this effort.
And while I am not a cider guy, the cider house was pretty cool too.
