[Scott Johnston]

Steve:

The most important thing to do when faced with a schedule like this is to not try to force training.  Not only do you have the time change to contend with and the sleep disruption that brings.  You may be working very long days.  In an 8-9 day period, I would get that big stair climb in since that is very specific to your goal. Make sure you are rested for that workout since it is probably the priority workout for the 8-9 days.   One or two max strength sessions should be doable.  You can probably fit in one or two Z2 treadmill runs. Trying to pack some training into each day is likely to bring you home exhausted. The consequence of that is that you will have had a compromised 9 days of training on the trip and may need a week to recover if you pushed it too hard on that trip.  You just want to do enough to not lose too much ground. Think of this as maintenance week and try to get home fairly rested so you can launch back to full training quickly.

Scott