Wednesday, November 19, 2008

7.7mi, 67:32, 19 NOV 08, Bagram, Afghanistan

Day 281 of the campaign.

iThink: Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"

WX at 0730: 39 (4) DP 17 (-8) BP 30.09 (1019) WNW 5 haze RH 40

Odometer 2: 346.4mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = ~160/169

This is perimeter run 50.

I suspect these shoes (a pair of Asics GT-2120s I got near the beginning of this tour) have another 8 or 10 runs left on them before I retire them, normally at the 400 mile mark.

Today started off painful - if for no reason than I spent an hour trying to get my internet connection to work, to no avail, and this is the third day in a row that I've been clocking five hours of sleep. This is starting to get a mite old.

I will try to get to sleep at a more reasonable hour, but I was glad I went for a run this morning based on what I'm eating, which is more than I probably should.

The other musing I did this morning was about ex-girlfriends from long ago, all long gone from my life, which ordinarily is totally irrelevant - were it not for the fact that long runs are my idle thought periods of the day, and I'm in a place where I'm certain there will be no sex in my life, at least not until I get back home.

There is someone in the office who likes to call the metal boxes in which we live "home." I tend to be very emphatic about the "home is 6,000 miles away" part of being here. Bagram is not home. Home, frankly, is where Household6, the Princess, and the Sledgehammer are, and they're not here.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:39 08:39 08:39 08:39 1.00
1.00 17:27 08:48 08:48 08:43 2.00
1.00 26:13 08:46 08:46 08:44 3.00
1.00 35:14 09:01 09:01 08:49 4.00
1.00 44:00 08:46 08:46 08:48 5.00
1.00 52:48 08:48 08:48 08:48 6.00
1.00 61:41 08:53 08:53 08:49 7.00
0.72 67:32 05:51 08:08 08:45 7.72

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