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I made it through my first week of multi-city travel for work, with two days in Detroit (MI) followed by two days in King of Prussia (PA). The only snafu was a doozie—a nine hour flight delay on Sunday meant I had to cancel my plans to meet a friend for dinner but I also got to finish the book I was reading (The Judge—highly recommend). My two hotels had very different hotel gyms and the fanciest was not my favorite.

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My flight was scheduled for 12:30 pm Sunday, so I had time for my “normal” morning routine—adapted to baby my hip. I took Jess Sims’ new-ish 20 min workout for the second time, subbing in some PT moves. I felt like I needed a cool-down ride after CDE’s 20 min class but I bikefess I didn’t realized I’d chosen a 10 min class until she “congratulated” us for opting-in to such a solid cool-down.

My firm puts us up at the Detroit Athletic Club, which is an old guard members-only space. The gym is well-equipped, but very crowded at 6 am on weekday mornings. It felt like we were all playing Tetris trying to find a space that wouldn’t interfere with someone else. Maybe it’s not so unusual, but I’ve never seen two people using different sides of the same cable machine at the same time before.

After checking in just after midnight Sunday, I was surprised at how ready I was to get up at 5:30 Monday morning. After warming up with a walk on the treadmill, I found a corner to do a core class and Tunde’s clamshell/glute bridge/leg lifts class before moving to another space to do a 10 min lower body class with lunges and squats.

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My 10:30 flight to PHL left me enough time for a full workout Tuesday morning. My hip was feeling really good (i.e., not “feeling” at all with walking, etc.) , so I decided to try some short, slow running intervals. My hip wasn’t thrilled, and flared up a bit afterwards. 😕

I stayed at a much less fancy hotel in King of Prussia, but the hotel gym was (almost) just what I needed—and spacious!

This is only 1/3 of the gym space!

I had called ahead to confirm they had Peloton bikes, so I was able to do a sweaty workout without annoying my hip—which seemed to have fully recovered from Tuesday’s brief attempt at running. The only thing missing from this hotel gym was 10 lb weights—how do they get lost? do people steal them?—so I had to modify my upper body workout to do the chest flies on the floor instead of standing.

The Peloton bikes were in good condition, but the calibration was off (on the easy side) so I got a Personal Record on this “low impact ride”.

The next day, I broke that record on the “rolling hills” ride.

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By Thursday my week of travel and late night “networking” was catching up to me, so I hit the snooze button a few times before heading to the hotel gym. I brought my fitness band with me, and did some of my own PT exercises between Andy’s core class and Hannah’s ride.

Luckily my flight home Thursday afternoon was uneventful—there was a brief delay for storms in D.C., but they must have passed quickly. Friday morning I was excited to take Scooby out—I really miss my morning walks when I travel. Once again my quiet hip tempted me to sprinkle a few running intervals into my walk, but my hip changed its mind and complained about it immediately. ~sigh~

It was nice to be back in my basement gym with all the weights and the space all to myself!

Peloton dropped several Juneteenth-themed classes on Friday, and Saturday I took the “cookout” ride with Alex and Tunde—it was a fun class.

I’m obviously frustrated by my hip and getting bored with those PT exercises! I made an orthopedist appointment for July 2. In the meantime I need to suck it up and stick it out. Tomorrow I head to San Diego and hope the receptionist was correct when she said they have Peloton bikes in the hotel gym. I will miss running along the Embarcadero, but it’s also a nice place to stroll with my morning Starbucks. 😉

A huge thank you to Deborah and Kim for hosting the Weekly Run Down link up.