Exercise and Travel

There must be a trick to exercising while on travel. Because so far it's been really really hard.
Heck, it's been hard just to eat well and at decent hours!

Now, to be fair I do know how to work out while on travel for work. But that's mainly because I'm staying in a hotel with a few workout machines, I keep quasi-normal business hours during the day, and I get to bed at a decent hour.

Traveling by myself to see family is a whole different ball game. I haven't gone to bed before 01:00 in three days, consistently sleep through breakfast, only have time for a light lunch between doing things and seeing people (all on other people's schedules because I am getting rides from friends/family to avoid rental car fees), and then my family insists on spoiling me for dinners - despite me telling them I would rather do something light. Instead mom wants to make me all of my"favorites" from when I was growing up or go out nice. *sigh* I love that my family loves me and misses me... they just have funny ways of showing it.

Happily, my teenage sister is still a bit vain about her body image and works out almost every day. I tagged along with her for a long run today and got 5.5 miles in, which felt awesome. And we were outside running alongside the wheat fields and totally flat horizon where you can see for miles on end... loved every minute of it! I do like where I live now in Alabama, but it's just so different from the Red River valley where I grew up! I missed it.

But anyway, that made today the first time in the past 3 days I've worked out at all. And I'm not eating well, and my sleep schedule is WACKED. Traveling even further north tomorrow to see my uncles and my Grandmother. I doubt Grandma will be keeping me up past 01:00 every night! so maybe I'll get back on schedule.

Other than that... having a Great Time because I only get to see my family maybe once a year! :-)