Lounge Isn’t Food: Travel Fitness Field Notes
This week was a test of systems: Zone 2 under travel stress, lounge temptations, transit failures, and one costly timing mistake. The win wasn’t perfection—it was recovery: ste
The Lounge Isn’t Food — It’s Infrastructure
Week 9 proved my travel system works: pre-decisions beat willpower, sleep changes Zone 2, and the lounge is infrastructure—not food. Next upgrade: fiber + a glycine experiment.
Istanbul Travel Week: Fasted Runs, Client Meetings, Jet Lag — and Keeping the System in Motion
Istanbul was chaos: long travel days, client meetings, jet lag, and catch-up work after hours. I didn’t aim for perfection. I aimed for a tiny system that still works when life g
The 10-Minute Economy Stack
Business travel steals mechanics before it steals fitness. If your “easy run” feels weirdly expensive—tight hips, sleepy ankles, clunky rhythm—don’t add more miles. Chang
The Week I Stopped Guessing: My VO₂ Baseline, My Zones, and a Very Nervous Fitbit
A busy week… and a smarter kind of progress This week felt overwhelming—because it was. A lot of in-house work during the day, then evenings (Wednesday through Saturday) spent
Fasted Half Marathon — Endurance Under Constraint
On September 21, 2025, I ran the Colmar Half Marathon in 1:31:54 — fully fasted. This is not a manifesto. It is a physiological field report. This expanded analysis examines subs
48-Hour Fast — Fuel Transition Analysis Under Real-World Conditions
A 48-hour fast isn’t a lifestyle trend. It’s a stress test. In this field report, I document what actually shifts across 12–48 hours under real executive workload: fuel trans
2025-W32 — August Base Building
Three weeks at home in August became a quiet training block: fasted runs, steady mileage, more family time, and the kind of boring consistency that builds real race confidence.
2025-W26 — A380 Dreams, DC Heat, and “Speed Tourism” Runs Before Breakfast
We flew the A380 in the tail, lived as “AC nomads” across DC museums, and I explored the National Mall on fasted sunrise runs—travel as training, not an excuse.
