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Travel Regulations

Consistent running is one thing when you’re home and in your routine, another when you’re traveling for work or pleasure.

Always get a run in before getting on an airplane. Even if it means a token few miles too early in the morning, you’ll be glad you did something good for yourself before surrendering your fate to the vagaries of air travel. If it works out that you can get in another run upon arrival, great, but never plan on it.

If you have to get up super early for a flight, then a little less sleep from waking a bit earlier to run won’t matter. (Besides, you’re going to be on a plane all day! What does it matter if you’re a little groggy?) I’ve had runs I’ll remember for the rest of my life—toward the sounds of the Mendenhall Glacier in the dark in Juneau, Alaska, around Nehru Park in New Delhi, India, at 3:30 AM—because of this approach. No way would I trade those runs for a little more sleep before a long travel day.

; Slison Wade