Running from Jet Lag

Running from Jet Lag

Yesterday’s morning run may not have chased away the inevitable jet lag, nor set any records. Our bodies were still scattered across multiple time zones – loitering somewhere above Southeast Asia, briefly detained in the Middle East, while the calendar, with official indifference, insisted that we were in Europe and Scandinavia. But a slow, steady 5k jog in the crisp Scandinavian air – lungs filling with cold clarity, legs remembering their rhythm – proved invigorating and, if only temporarily, until the next wave of jetlagginess set in, energizing.