Do all the people you know travel? Are they already asking you to join them and that you are already itching yourself to? However, a trip requires careful planning. Before you pack your bags and hitch hike with your friends, Westhill Consulting Travel and Tours has listed some important steps you can take to prepare for a safe trip anywhere: Be Aware of Any Travel Alerts and Warnings for Your Destination The State Department may issue Travel Warnings to recommend postponing travel to a country because of widespread civil unrest, dangerous conditions, terrorist activity or, in some cases, because the your country has no diplomatic relations with the country and may have great difficulty in assisting foreign citizens in distress. Travel Alerts disseminate information quickly about terrorist threats or other relatively short-term or transnational conditions that could pose significant risks to you and affect your travel plans. Do You Have All Required Travel Documents? Most foreign countries require a valid passport to enter and leave. Some countries may allow you to enter with only a birth certificate, or with a birth certificate and a driver's license, but all persons, including U.S. citizens, traveling by air, must present a valid passport to reenter the United States. Some countries have the strictest policies in knowing fraud passports entering their country. What about your children? Some countries have instituted requirements to help prevent child abductions and may require travelers to present proof of relationship to the children and evidence of consent from any non-accompanying parent(s). Visit our child abduction country information pages for information about your destination. When does your passport expire? Some countries require that a traveler's passport be valid for at least six months beyond the dates of the trip. Contact the embassy of your foreign destination for more information. For

Now that we are nearing the second half of the year and spent the first half working hard, it may be good to spend some part of your time once every month in visiting wondrous places in Asia. Westhill Consulting Travel and Tours have listed a special place to spend your weekend at. July - Sumatra, Indonesia Sumatra is the second island popular for surfing with the most number of surf spots, with 18 altogether and an island away from the capital, Jakarta, Indonesia. The common time for surfing is around May to September with the trade winds blowing from east to south-east. From October to April, winds tend to come from the west to north-west, so the east coast breaks get the offshore winds. August - Chinatown, Singapore/ Chinese Enclaves, Malaysia If you are up for a little visit to the dead, you should join the celebration of Hungry Ghost Festival in basically almost all of countries with Chinatown of their own. In Asia, the celebration of the event is widely awesome in Singapore and Malaysia. The Hungry Ghost Festival celebrates the Taoist belief in the afterlife. Chinese communities in Malaysia and Singapore believe that the gates of Hell open on the 7th lunar month, freeing the spirits of the dead to roam in the world of the living. The living, in turn, must make offerings of food and burnt prayer money to the souls of the dead to appease them. They shouldn't show complaints or heavy feelings, though, as ghost are said to hunt those that do. September - Borneo Malaysian Borneo is one of those rare places where you can sense the adventure in the air, along with the green smells from thousands of miles of rainforest just waiting to be explored. Borneo is the third-largest island in the world, and a virtual paradise on earth for anyone who shares a love for plants, wildlife, and adventure. October - Beijing, China Asia in October can very enjoyable; th

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While it's not quite summer yet, school vacation, road trips and weekend getaways will be here to interrupt your training before you know it. Heck, due to a hectic work schedule, many of you reading this article don't need summer to have your training interrupted by travel. It's a part of your everyday training challenge.

Perhaps one of the most logistically challenging aspects of training is trying to fit in runs and workouts around travel, regardless of whether it's for pleasure or work. Unfamiliar routes, busy schedules, and weariness from the road can make it nearly impossible to stick to the optimal training plan.

So, how do you handle training while traveling?

Rather than providing you with yet another article on travel tips like finding a treadmill, mapping your routes and planning ahead - and because there are plenty of resources from runners with far more travel experience than myself - this article will target the more holistic aspect of training while traveling. That is, how to take a long-term view of your workouts and learn to adapt your entire plan and outlook on training to handle the stress and unpredictability of travel.

One Workout Doesn't Make or Break A Training Segment
Thanks to the OCD nature that probably pre-disposes us to be runners, missing a key workout can be extremely difficult to handle. Even the most experienced runners fret about lost fitness or missed potential gains when they miss a workout. However, if you're training consistently, there is no magic or secret workout that must be done in order to have success at any race distance.

A former coach of mine, Scott Simmons, was fond of the saying that a missed workout was a "small drop of water in your big bucket of fitness." Meaning, if you think of every workout, easy day and long run you do as a drop of water that collects in a large bucket, you can see that once your bucket is filled up with water, the absence of a single drop isn't noticeable in the slightest. It has a minuscule impact on your overall fitness.
This analogy helped me understand that training isn't about individual workouts. When you step back and look at your training from a holistic point of view, you can see that missing one workout has little impact on your fitness.

So, what does this have to do with training and travel?

Many runners I work with have trouble bouncing back after a missed workout. It ruins the rest of their week as they never get back on track. Some runners try to cram workouts in to make up for their missed run, which is always the wrong answer. And, some runners lose complete confidence in their fitness and carry that feeling with them into race day.

Don't let missing one workout due to a long flight or a busy work meeting ruins your entire week of training or causes you to lose confidence in your fitness. Remember, it's a small drop of water in your big bucket of fitness.

Doing Something Is Better Than Doing Nothing
We all want everything to go perfectly in training. Unfortunately, when traveling sometimes you have to adapt and do the best with what you're given. Perhaps you don't have time to get in that tempo run you planned or find yourself in a location less than ideal for 400-meter repeats. Rather than not doing anything, get creative.

Turn your track session into a fartlek and sprint from telephone pole to telephone poll. Can't get outside? Focus instead on injury prevention and does some hip strengthening or core work. Heck, you don't even need to get that creative. An easy run is still better than not running if you have the time. However, even if you're short on time, simply taking three minutes to do the five most beneficial hip strengthening exercises could go a long way toward keeping you healthy long-tem.

Regardless of what you're able to fit in, you can still find some small way to make yourself a better runner each and every day.

Overtraining Is Also Caused By Lack of Sleep and Recovery
With that said, remember that overtraining and fatigue are caused by more than just running workouts.

Lack of sleep, travel anxiety, and trying to cram in workouts can all lead to a greater stress on your body than you realize. Training does not occur in a vacuum and the stress and lack of sleep from a busy travel schedule can be just as hard on the body as a week of difficult workouts.

Schedule yourself some needed rest and recovery time. Most experienced runners will admit that the cause of their poor performances was a result of trying to do too much or getting injured rather than not working hard enough. Remember, no single workout makes or breaks a training segment. Sometimes, the best way for you to stay healthy and train to your best is to take some extra rest.

As you get set to travel for work this week or as your summer travel plans materialize, remember to keep a holistic view of your training in mind. Be adaptable, focus on the small wins you can find in training, and don't fret if training gets off track.


References:
http://westhillconsulting.info/
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/108506-westhill-consulting-travel-and-tours