7.8mi, 69:53, 24 DEC 08, Bagram, Afghanistan

Day 316 of the campaign.

iThink:
Paul Oakenfold, "Ready Steady Go"
Dos Gringos, "Has Anyone Seen My Wingman"
Paul Ruskay, "Agnus Dei" (the arrangement of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings from the computer game Homeworld)
Dos Gringos, "Heat Loves the Cock" (from the Live at Tommy Rockers album)
Mindy Hester, "Keep On Rocking the Preschool"

WX at 2230: 37 (3) DP 26 (-3) BP 30.15 (1021) SW 2 haze; smoke RH 64

Odometer 3: 289.5mi

Z2-3.
Average/max heart rate = 157/171

This is perimeter run 63.

Today was a bizarre medley of whatever the hell would come to mind. Other things that came to mind was some idle thought on first-order derivatives (as in the concept from calculus), something I was discussing in passing with one of my coworkers, realizing that I hadn't had to explain limits, asymptotes, derivatives, and integrals, and how they relate to what I do as a planner.

I was tired, and did not want to go running tonight, but I've eaten enough in the last few weeks that I need to get back on a disciplined running kick - and I felt better, and with some of my mind cleared from having gone on a fairly easy run (but not so easy that my knees hurt). I found that going on this run actually helped quite a bit.

That, and it's x-moose, and I really didn't want to sit around listening to platitudes about the holiday season. My coworkers got the full fury of my holiday schadenfreude this morning. I suppose I should back off, but I think from time to time of the admonition about being a razor, and think to myself that in the five or so months I have left, I might be able to hang on the killing wheel long enough to finish the things I need to finish before I leave. Then I can back off.

The package I got today from the school where Household6 teaches and where the Princess and Sledgehammer attend was a reminder of what I left behind. It was a pointed reminder of why I do what I do, and perhaps why the person that I've become probably can not, in good conscience, go home.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:55 08:55 08:55 08:55 1.00
1.00 18:13 09:18 09:18 09:07 2.00
1.00 27:20 09:07 09:07 09:07 3.00
1.00 36:41 09:21 09:21 09:10 4.00
1.00 45:30 08:49 08:49 09:06 5.00
1.00 54:33 09:03 09:03 09:05 6.00
1.00 63:34 09:01 09:01 09:05 7.00
0.74 69:53 06:19 08:32 09:02 7.74