After 20 hours of travel I finally made it to Sao Paulo Brazil, I forgot how miserable international flights are, and I have 3 more of them before the end of the year. Since I'm a Marriott points hog I opted to stay 40 km away from where I'm working at the airport Marriott, which still makes some sense since I have to fly out of the airport too, plus it saved the company money. Not sure it was such a great choice though, the area isn't very nice. Of course for all I know these could be high price condos but anywhere in the US they would be considered "low income housing" to be polite. I asked the hotel concierge if it was safe to run here, he said yeah just run on the road right out side the hotel, I asked how far it went, he said 1 kilometer, I said what if I want to run 10 kilometers, he said run back and forth 10 times :) I opted to go to the gym. Which is a very nice hotel gym by the way. It was really hard to get moving after sitting on the plane for that long, I was going to go for 90 minutes but either the humidity or jet lag got to me and I had to call it quits after 7.5 miles. (12k). I may try to get down again tonight.
7.5 miles in 60 minutes 8:00 avg pace Oh! and if you were wondering, the treadmill belt spins the same way in the southern hemisphere as in the north. I was a little worried about it. ***********************
P.M. Turns out the concierge wasn't kidding, I looked out my hotel room window and saw 100's of people running on that road so I decided to go check it out. Turns out they paved the inner lane with some red, like high school track like material for running on and it seems to be the thing to do. It was exactly 1.25 miles around, I only managed 2 laps before it got dark (at 8:00pm) now off to the gym to lift some weights. 2.5 miles 7:45 avg pace
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