7.8mi, 71:05, 11 NOV 08, Bagram, Afghanistan

Day 273 of the campaign.

iThink:
The Bats, "Courage"
Death Cab for Cutie, "Lowell, MA" (again)
Death Cab for Cutie, "Bixby Canyon Bridge" (again)
Dos Gringos, "Jeremiah Weed" (curiously appropriate)

WX at 2330: 53 (12) 32 (0) 30.09 (1019) SSE 5 RH 45

Odometer 2: 328.7mi

Z3 mid-easy.
Average/max heart rate = 157/169

This is perimeter run 47.

Today was a thoroughly dispiriting day at work. I had occasion to brief a visiting officer who evinced little knowledge of strategy or, for that matter, any reasonable desire to understand how it affects life as we know it. I realized there that I was facing not one, but two examples of our failure to generate any kind of reasonable strategic thinkers because the other example was someone here who was equally ignorant of that - regardless of its pervasive effects on much of what we do.

It was then that I realized that I had witnessed the confluence of what I'm starting to call the Harbinger of Doom.

So, once again, I revisit the refrain of "Jeremiah Weed," because I know I'm chipping away at a bottle of it when I get back for once, especially after realizing that some organizations won't ever listen to any sort of strategic intellectual conscience...

Fox 1, when you've got nothing left
Fox 2, it's that heater in your chest
Fox 3, the only friend you'll ever need
That cocksucker motherfucker Jeremiah Weed

And when I leave, I will shake the dust off my boots when this visiting officer's command returns. And I'll try not to think too hard about the people and the progress we will leave behind.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:01 09:01 09:01 09:01 1.00
1.00 18:18 09:17 09:17 09:09 2.00
1.00 27:27 09:09 09:09 09:09 3.00
1.00 36:46 09:19 09:19 09:12 4.00
1.00 45:56 09:10 09:10 09:11 5.00
1.00 55:10 09:14 09:14 09:12 6.00
1.00 64:09 08:59 08:59 09:10 7.00
0.79 71:05 06:56 08:47 09:07 7.79