Great stuff ohw . I have to travel fairly long distances for my job too from time to time but have still managed, usually by getting up even earlier, to fit the running in. Last week I had two long days out: On Monday a 13 hour journey (11.5 hours in the car for a 1.5 hour meeting!!) to Kingston on Thames and back with driving rain and spray all the way - I got up at 4am, set off at 5am and was back home at 6pm, just in time for a lovely 4 mile run with Harry (in the pissing rain ). And on Wednesday I had to get up at 5am to drive to Manchester Airport to fly to Exeter to then drive to Torquay and ditto in reverse for the return journey - still managed my evening run though . I think my worst day to get motivated for a run has been the Sunday after my second failed Bob Graham attempt ('monsoon over Bowfell' said in a Reginald Perrin voice ) - we'd camped over and arranged to walk up over Haystacks with friends on the Sunday morning meaning that I got home quite late, really quite knackered (zero sleep on Friday night as I'd been running), aching legs and feet and to cap it all 'one or two' problems at home when I got there. I still stumbled out for a run though.... albeit a short one!

And RTS, I used to run 4 or 5 days a week with say 25 to 35 miles of running. My distance is about 40 to 45 miles on average now which is probably the key difference. Obviously that sort of mileage is relatively easily achievable without continuing the run every day thing - I just like running every day.