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Frankfurt Airport, Terminal B

June 21, 2019 (Afternoon)

Exercise Type: Run

Comments:
This was actually a lot less unpleasant than it sounds. I hadn't run for the days and I had a couple of hours free between flights, so I decided to make the most of it and going for a run...inside the airport. This endeavor was made much more reasonable by the sets of showered I discovered not long beforehand. The last time did a run in an airport was with Marc Tracy junior year of high school on our way to Yosemite National Park for CA's environmental science spring break trip. That time I only ran about 20 minutes and I think I bacially washed up on the bathroom. Also, Marc didn't actually do it. He just watched my bags and told me I was being ridiculous. This time, however, I ran for over an hour, doing laps around the entire terminal. I started off by doing something you definitely should do however which is leave your bags unattended. I had two heavy backpacks with me filled with books and clothes, but I told myself if I put left of them on a seat near where other people were sitting no one would touch them, especially if I stopped by to check on them periodically. No one did in fact, but after 40 minutes, a young British traveler sitting nearby asked if the bags were mine and told me they scared her because they were left unattended. Thus, for the final 24 mintues of my run, I ran with both backpacks on my bag, plus a track bag containing my hiking boots. I looked thorougly ridiculous, compounde by the fact that I was still wearing the short-sleeve button down dress shirt I'd been wearing all morning along with my running shorts. When an airport official asked me what flight I was running to catch, I took that as a sign I'd run enough and headed for the showers. I also managed to pull off 12 minutes of exercises that the doctor has prescribed for my hamstring tendon, performing them out on the little terrace where the Europeans go to light cigarettes. Still had just enough time in the end to make it to my flight. So happy to be back in the U.S.!!! Fieldwork is finished! End of the academic year!

Milage is approximate - I was at times dodging lounge seating and weaving through boarding lines.