Saturday, February 07, 2009

7.8mi, 66:55, 8 FEB 09, Bagram, Afghanistan

Day 362 of the campaign.

iThink:
The Bats, "Courage"
Michael Kamen, Opening credits to From The Earth To the Moon

WX at 0130: 28 (-2) DP 19 (-7) BP 30.24 (1024) NW 6 RH 68

Odometer 3: 328.8mi

Z3-Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 159/179

This is perimeter run 72.

Tonight's not a school night, so I decided to go for a late night run. Sure beats lighting up cancer sticks to let off steam, and besides, I need to think about something different than why I don't want to talk to anyone, because the last few weeks has been sad validation about my basic belief in human nature.

I realized, though, that after almost a year in the combat zone, I cannot listen to Taps without crying. At the same time, I have no doubt that if I had occasion to level off my bullet launcher at someone I'm supposed to shoot, I'll do my damndest to put two rounds 5.56mm through that person's lethal zone. Maybe that's why I felt compelled to rewatch parts of The Lost Battalion, a really underrated movie starring Rick Schroder in a very compelling, non-Silver Spoons-like performance.

Coming up on St. Valentine's Day - and the first thing I think of whenever I think of that is St. Sebastian, getting shot with arrows and roasted on a grill by angry Roman soldiers. I also decided to rewatch the film Juno to remind me of a time when I was once still in love.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:43 08:43 08:43 08:43 1.00
1.00 17:38 08:55 08:55 08:49 2.00
1.00 26:17 08:39 08:39 08:46 3.00
1.00 34:52 08:35 08:35 08:43 4.00
1.00 43:21 08:29 08:29 08:40 5.00
1.00 52:01 08:40 08:40 08:40 6.00
1.00 60:39 08:38 08:38 08:40 7.00
0.75 66:55 06:16 08:21 08:38 7.75

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