All you need are your shoes.

That is the best thing about running. As an avid traveler and runner, I get the best of both worlds. Why would I run when I am on vacation? There are several reasons:

·        Time zone changes can tire your body. A quick run can provide a much-needed burst of energy. A longer run can slow you down and make it easier to rest and catch up with the time zone.

·        If you love to eat and indulge in all kinds of local delicacies – adding a quick run provides you with guilt-free opportunity to indulge in Italian gelato, Spanish tapas, English fish and chips, and Floridian key lime pie. Incorporating a quick run into your travel ensures that you will still be able to fit into your clothes when you return from vacation.

·        Exhilarating tour of the local landscape. An early morning run provides the opportunity to meet locals and to experience the landscape, roads, bridges, paths without other tourists and traffic.

·        Enhanced performance. Enhance you performance by running in the sand along the beach, up and down the rolling hills in Ireland, in higher and lower climates.

·        Race all over the world. Google® the city and dates you will be visiting and take the opportunity to register for a local run. I was recently in Florida and had the opportunity to enter in an 8KM evening road race for a local Cuban charity. The race was as incredible as the paella and music offered by the community members to the participants.

Still not convinced? Try visiting Runner’s World and peruse their over 75 recommended runs in cities around the world – from Brussels, Belgium to Tokyo, Japan.