without a car

I have been walking to work and back every day. Wonder if that counts as cross-training.

Also, I couldn't drive to the foothills, so I couldn't run uphill on trails. But I found a street on a hill close to my house, with half a mile's length of considerable incline, and I did that for more than an hour, up and down, again and again, both the day before my big run and the day after, taking it easy, thinking of nothing, in a pleasant, empty state of mind.