6.0mi, 51:58, 21 MAR 10, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"

WX at 1300: 39.0 (3.9) DP 25.0 (-3.9) BP 30.05 (1017) N 16 RH 56

Odometer 1: 374.9mi

Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = 165/178

This is sad when this is my first run since Wednesday...and I don't think it's unusual that I've gone as long in between workouts as I have. Today was faster only because I had no snivel gear on. I was mostly done with some stuff around the house and realized I had a golden opportunity for a workout, so I took it. I need it.

This speaks volumes for low expectations. This indicative by my telling people that I know I can get a 180 on the PT test. That's about all I care about lately for goals.

I also started physical therapy for my right hand and trapezius, so I'm complaining of muscles that are sore because they're getting use and usually get none. Fun.

I have had little true motivation to do homework for graduate school this semester. Some of this is attributable to the fact that these are courses I have to take for degree requirements rather than ones I really want to take, but that's the price of doing business. The latest paper I've written is but an indicator. I have another due in two weeks that will have similar levels of suckitude.

Probably not as much suckitude as the Johns Hopkins lacrosse team, though. They play Virginia next week, which will probably continue the slide in what is turning out to be a really long season.

The fact that Kansas lost to Northern Iowa (a school where one of my good friends from my last combat tour went as an undergraduate!) was only incidental to me. Basketball is something that only dimly factors in my universe, right up there with watching paint dry. It does bother me when I read about college players having children, or debating on whether to stay at school another year rather than entering the early draft for the NBA, or comparing their loss in the NCAA tournament to losing a first son. It was the last part that really grated on me.

"Next to my son dying, this is probably the worst thing that has happened in my life." Uh-huh. There is more to life than sports.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:15 08:15 08:15 08:15 1.00
1.00 17:03 08:48 08:48 08:31 2.00
1.00 25:49 08:46 08:46 08:36 3.00
1.00 34:48 08:59 08:59 08:42 4.00
1.00 43:32 08:44 08:44 08:42 5.00
1.00 51:58 08:26 08:26 08:40 6.00