I am lucky in that my professional responsibilities do not require me to travel a great deal.  The idea of being on and off airplanes and spending the night in hotels is not for me.  It is not what I was built for.  I am a creature of habit.  I get up at 4am get an hour workout in and then off to work.  I log in 12 plus hours a day – a few dinners a week and that my normal work week.  I am aware that my life style is not ideal to all.  But its mine and I dig it.  But as we all know life takes out of our comfort zones from time to time and the trick is to make the best out of it.  The last week I was in SF for two nights and LA for 3.  I experienced two great work outs in LA area that I thought I would share with you.  The 1st one is well known and that is the Santa Monica stairs.  They are great and the experience definitely makes one question why do I live anywhere but right here?  The second experience is not as well known yet, but could be on its way.  I went to Cross Fit Malibu.  It took place in an old “army barracks” like structure.  It was a class of 10 people of a variety of fitness levels – 40% were triathletes.  We ran, pulled, jumped, dragged, and much much more.  If you find yourself in Malibu – you got to check this out.