Hmmm.

In the United States, warfare is undertaken incident to an act of Congress or an order of the president acting in his role as commander in chief of the armed forces, according to the U.S. Constitution. Law enforcement can also take place at the national level, with the Federal Bureau of Investigation providing the means, and it can be effected at other, lesser levels right down to the community level by local police departments. Waging war, however, lies within the sole province of the president. The objective war is victory over an opponent by securing strategic goals; the objective of law enforcement, on the other hand, is justice through apprehending and punishing violators and giving safe haven, solace, closure, and comfort to victims.

In law enforcement, a crime is committed and the enforcers say: "Who did this? We must find them and apprehend them." In warfare, an act of war is committed, and the warriors say: "We must kill or capture those responsible." So, when a national leader of a country whose homeland is attacked on a massive scale with weapons of mass destruction interprets this as an act of war, he says: "We must attack the perpetrators of this act, and either kill or capture them." "Dead or alive" is the appropriate sentiment in response to an act of war. If, on the other hand, a violation of the laws of the land is at issue, one says instead: "We must bring the perpetrators of this act to justice."

...In law enforcement, responsible officials seek to use the minimum force possible in resolving the crime; in warfare, one seeks to the use the maximum force permissible so that the conflict can be won as quickly as possible with the least amount of destruction and carnage.

- Roger Barnett, Navy Strategic Culture

3.03mi, 30:24, 29 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: various running cadences, all sundry, none memorable

WX at 0600: 66.9 (19.4) DP 61.0 (16.1) BP 30.04 (1017) SE 9 RH 81

Odometer 11A: 177.0mi

Z2.
Average/max heart rate = 140/161

Today was going to be a rest day, or a recovery day. Given that it's hard not to go too hard on a recovery day, I tried real hard not to go much above 150 today, which was mostly successful.

I'm also the possessor of a haircut I have not had since I was a junior captain. I may regret this, but hair grows back, and it should be closer to normal in about two weeks, when I get the sides and back shaved off again. Whee.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:55 09:55 09:55 09:55 1.00
1.00 19:47 09:52 09:52 09:54 2.00
1.03 30:24 10:37 10:18 10:02 3.03

There's schadenfreude, and then there's schadenfreude.

Is it so evil that I find this funny as hell?

4.93mi, 43:01, 28 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: The Bats, "Courage"

WX at 0700: 63.0 (17.2) DP 57.9 (14.4) BP 30.09 (1018) N 5 RH 83

Odometer 11A: 174.0mi

Z3 high.
Average/max heart rate = 154/170

I'm not sure what made today's run as significantly better than yesterday's, but I'm sure the temperature was a factor. Not as cool as I like, but a definite improvement over the last few weeks. Relative humidity was a lot lower too.

That said, it's also possible that I was around enough people that I was drawing enough negative energy from either pulling in other runners or keeping myself from getting drawn in.

I get an electromyograph test today. I can only hope it's better than the last one I had, which involved having the doctor tapping in needles with the current still going. Doing the frog's leg thing with my arm is one thing, but I don't much care for guys tapping needles in while it's going on. That said, he said I took the test a lot better than most people...

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:35 08:35 08:35 08:35 1.00
1.00 17:03 08:28 08:28 08:31 2.00
1.00 26:05 09:02 09:02 08:42 3.00
1.00 34:57 08:52 08:52 08:44 4.00
0.93 43:01 08:04 08:40 08:44 4.93

So wrong, but so right

And I wonder why American TV spots suck monkey balls, unlike this one.

5.08mi, 45:41, 27 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"
Kitchens of Distinction, "Smiling"

WX at 0700: 64.9 (18.3) DP 62.1 (16.7) BP 29.87 (1011) SE 13 RH 90

Odometer 11A: 169.1mi

Z3 HR, but Z4 comparative effort.
Average/max heart rate = 152/168

Today was a day I sorely felt like sleeping in, but I got out when I was greeted this morning by thunder and lightning. That's a safe bet I'm going out for a run if it's still raining and I feel even remotely up to it.

My legs were completely dead on much of this run. What really is jarring is my comparatively low heart rate for feeling like such crap. Of course, this might be a factor of waking up and going for a run less than 20 minutes later.

I'm not sure why I didn't think of the obvious New Model Army running mantra today, but for being such a great song, it doesn't fit well with my running tempo. There is no small irony going from Dos Gringos to Kitchens of Distinction this morning, although a little Blur (to the tune of "Song 2") and Soul Asylum ("Somebody to Shove") intruded briefly this morning as well.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:02 09:02 09:02 09:02 1.00
1.00 17:50 08:48 08:48 08:55 2.00
1.00 26:48 08:58 08:58 08:56 3.00
1.00 36:06 09:18 09:18 09:01 4.00
1.00 45:00 08:54 08:54 09:00 5.00
0.08 45:41 00:41 08:32 09:00 5.08

Frak

Under certain circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

- Mark Twain

That said, profanity is perhaps preferable than continuing to nurse the kind of white-hot rage that makes me think about killing people in cold blood with my bare hands.

The last time I was this fucking pissed off I was realizing that I was raising both of my hands in the reflexive fire position for my former 8-pound M4 security blanket a few days after I came home from Afghanistan. I was thinking very deliberately about putting a controlled pair through the center of the driver's side door of cars speeding through my old neighborhood while yelling "SLOW THE FUCK DOWN."

The sad irony is that my bloodthirsty ire is the result of some generally inconsequential things, but I suspect I can't bellow "JESUS TITTY-FUCKING CHRISTALMOTHERFUCKING ALMIGHTY" at the top of my lungs in my house with my kids present.

Nothing I can't fix with the appropriate medication, although Johnnie Walker Red is pretty shitty and I realize I'm WINCHESTER on Glenfiddich 12. Easy fix later on.

So say we all

OMFG I laughed my ass off seeing this.

6.08mi, 55:03, 25 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
The Bats, "Courage"
The Calling, "Wherever You May Go"

WX at 1000: 64 (18) DP 64 (18) BP 29.85 (1010) E 12 light rain RH 100

Odometer 11A: 164.0mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 154/172

Slow run, late morning. I was up very late last night and got a late start, but it was overcast and cool, so I got in a run. Maybe a rest day tomorrow, if not a short run as it gets warmer this week.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:50 08:50 08:50 08:50 1.00
1.00 17:34 08:44 08:44 08:47 2.00
1.00 26:48 09:14 09:14 08:56 3.00
1.00 35:56 09:08 09:08 08:59 4.00
1.00 45:06 09:10 09:10 09:01 5.00
1.00 54:18 09:12 09:12 09:03 6.00
0.08 55:03 00:45 09:23 09:03 6.08

4.6mi, 41:49, 23 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Gin Blossoms, "Until I Fall Away"
The Calling, "Wherever You Will Go"

WX at 0700: 62.1 (16.7) DP 55.0 (12.8) BP 29.89 (1012) W 7 RH 77

Odometer 11A: 157.9mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 146/186

Slow run, but intended as such. I probably went harder than I should have and the uphill portions were particularly unpleasant.

Maybe tomorrow will be a recovery run also. Today's weather was too good to pass up.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:07 09:07 09:07 09:07 1.00
1.00 18:10 09:03 09:03 09:05 2.00
1.00 27:11 09:01 09:01 09:04 3.00
1.00 36:20 09:09 09:09 09:05 4.00
0.60 41:49 05:29 09:08 09:05 4.60

5.95mi, 52:53, 22 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: Dos Gringos, "The O.N.E. Song"

WX at 0600: 62.1 (16.7) DP 53.1 (11.7) BP 29.75 (1007) W 12 RH 72

Odometer 11A: 153.6mi

Z3 mid-high, Z4 finish.
Average/max heart rate = 154/176

Good god was I tired this morning. I totally did not want to get up, but I knew that the weather was going to be worth it, so I got out there and was rewarded by a pleasant break from the last two weeks of heat.

It was breezy, but there is rain forecasted for later this week, and the river is just short of flood stage here it at Fortress Leavenworth. As a result, the airfield has been closed as the Missouri River continues to rise. It'll probably go over the levee at the airfield later this week. Whee!

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:12 09:12 09:12 09:12 1.00
1.00 17:57 08:45 08:45 08:58 2.00
1.00 27:03 09:06 09:06 09:01 3.00
1.00 36:13 09:10 09:10 09:03 4.00
1.00 44:51 08:38 08:38 08:58 5.00
0.95 52:53 08:02 08:27 08:53 5.95

3.8mi, 34:23, 21 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: MGMT, "Kids"

WX at 0700: 66.0 (18.9) DP 60.1 (15.6) BP 29.51 (999) SSW 20 RH 81

Odometer 11A: 147.6mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 148/164

Legs were as dead as they have ever felt. My hamstrings are particularly bad this week.

I still needed to get out there, so I did. I was planning on running more, but I left too late. Part of it was the internal debate over how bad my legs felt versus my need to go do something.

Breezy and pleasant, although lately that portends a rain storm.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:56 08:56 08:56 08:56 1.00
1.00 17:40 08:44 08:44 08:50 2.00
1.00 27:18 09:38 09:38 09:06 3.00
0.80 34:23 07:05 08:51 09:03 3.80

3.79mi, 34:14, 19 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Sugar, "Changes"
The Dream Academy, "Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want"
Chris "Vertex Guy" Kline, "Contra Jungle Jam"

WX at 0800: 69.1 (20.6) DP 66.9 (19.4) BP 29.74 (1007) WNW 5 RH 93

Odometer 11A: 143.8mi

Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 152/168

Not long, but my legs were tired from yesterday. I felt better than I thought, but I needed to start earlier. I didn't want to wake up earlier, though.

Also, I'm not sure where the unwarranted attack of the 1980s happened, although the observant reader will note that the Dream Academy's version of the song is the one from the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I like The Smiths, but I love covers of their songs. Especially hardcore covers, although that's not the Dream Academy.

Oh well. At least I got a run in.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:51 08:51 08:51 08:51 1.00
1.00 17:31 08:40 08:40 08:45 2.00
1.00 27:01 09:30 09:30 09:00 3.00
0.79 34:14 07:13 09:08 09:02 3.79

The Coolest Thing Ever

Nothing quite says cutting social commentary as much as owning the living dogshit out of a bunch of popular songs. Woot.

5.0mi, 43:59, 18 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Russell Watson, "Faith of the Heart"
Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"

WX at 0900: 69.1 (20.6) DP 63.0 (17.2) BP 29.76 (1007) Calm RH 80

Odometer 11A: 140.1mi

Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 157/176

Faster than I expected, but I dislike running in open sunlight. I slept in this morning otherwise.

After watching the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Twilight, " I was thinking about alternate histories, since the notion of contingency (as it relates to causality) is a big one for me as a military historian. Could it be that what happens in that episode really leads to as catastrophic consequences as occur during that episode? Those are fundamental discussions of contingency and agency that all historians must address at some point. I also like counterfactuals for the same reason.

That episode also brings up some more pointed thoughts about love, and what it means. Or not.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:57 08:57 08:57 08:57 1.00
1.00 17:31 08:34 08:34 08:45 2.00
1.00 26:25 08:54 08:54 08:48 3.00
1.00 35:13 08:48 08:48 08:48 4.00
1.00 43:59 08:46 08:46 08:48 5.00

3.0mi, 28:43, 16 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: Blue Oyster Cult, "Don't Fear the Reaper"

WX at 0700: 68.0 (20.0) DP 55.9 (13.3) BP 29.8 (1009) SSE 10 RH 65

Odometer 11A: 135.1mi

Z2.
Average/max heart rate = 146/169

More wogging. I almost slept in. Then I realized I needed to run.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:36 09:36 09:36 09:36 1.00
1.00 19:13 09:37 09:37 09:36 2.00
1.00 28:43 09:30 09:30 09:34 3.00

Revisionist memory of my childhood

Awesome.

The Coolest Thing Ever

Make your own Atari Cartridge image!

By the way, as a future harbinger of my eventual basic branch in the Army, I totally pwned people playing Tank-Pong in Combat when I was a kid.

3.0mi, 28:16, 15 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: various sundry running cadences.

WX at 0600: 66.0 (18.9) DP 59.0 (15.0) BP 29.81 (1009) WNW 8 RH 78

Odometer 11A: 132.1mi

Z2.
Average/max heart rate = 145/159

First true recovery run I've done in a while. I needed to do it. This offered the chance to revisit some running cadences I hadn't thought of in a while in the wake of yesterday's formation run. Woot.

It's preferable to sleeping in, so it's not junk mileage.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:07 09:07 09:07 09:07 1.00
1.00 18:53 09:46 09:46 09:26 2.00
1.00 28:16 09:23 09:23 09:25 3.00

5.53mi, 49:30, 14 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: none.

WX at 0700: 68.0 (20.0) DP 64.9 (18.3) BP 29.8 (1009) E 14 RH 90

Odometer 11A: 129.1mi

Z4 ingress, Z2 run, Z4 high egress.
Average/max heart rate = 157/187

I did an installation-wide formation run. For a formation run that was composed to military, civilians, family members, and pets, this group ran a full minute faster per mile than the last formation run I did. I attribute that to numbers.

I thought the group was going to run a loose box at own cadence today, but I was wrong. Someone started the cadence, and ran it out. I even got out there, and realized that literally every cadence I could remember was unsuitable for this audience.

Of the ones I remember, I absolutely could not sing about the monkey who jumps up from the coconut grove, or that "napalm sticks to kids," or that "crunch, crunch, crunch is the sound of the grunts in the sprocket going round and round." I definitely could not sing about how "if you ain't cav, you ain't shit." Literally every cadence I could summon was obscene, or specifically derided a group (as a general staff officer, it's bad form to sing cadences about running over airborne rangers with a tank).

Additionally, other cadences I learned were Cold War cadences, so I wasn't going to sing about dying on the Eastern Front, getting buried with a "Russian Grunt," with a "six-disk changer at my head, so turn up the volume and rock the dead." Maybe not.

There is a special place in hell for those who can only sing running cadences that start with a "C-130 rolling down the strip." My usual response was "first pass" and counting upwards for subsequent iterations of the cadence.

Sum total of my cadences were extended 4-count and various combinations of left and right. There's an old expression that people in the Army never learn to count to five. Listen to a formation run, you know that's totally true. At least I still have rhythm. Thank you, music theory and classical violin training!

I realized afterwards that I have not been in a tactical unit doing this shit in nine years. It's been longer than I thought.

I mentally indulged all those cadences on the run back since I had to teach less than an hour afterwards. I have schadenfreude. That is not an epiphany.

My knees hurt. I am not 21 anymore. That's not a big epiphany either.

Ingress to start was amazingly fast. I am not sure how or why I was able to hold such a speed going in (although it's overall downhill coming into the start) and overall uphill coming back, but the egress was surprisingly fast, although my legs were burning by the end. I also took two days off, so that might be a factor too.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.12 08:44 08:44 07:48 07:48 1.12
3.14 39:01 30:17 09:39 09:10 4.26
1.27 49:30 10:29 08:15 08:57 5.53

5.0mi, 44:33, 11 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Gin Blossoms, "Follow You Down"
"Jester" from the PC video game Terminal Velocity

WX at 0900: 66.0 (18.9) DP 57.9 (14.4) BP 30.04 (1017) NNE 13 RH 75

Odometer 11A: 123.5mi

Z4 uphill, Z3 downhill.
Average/max heart rate = no reading. Forgot to charge my Garmin ForeRunner 305 yesterday.

For a day I didn't think I was going to run faster than I did, I ran faster because there was a race on and I was "pulled" along by running in proximity to other runners.

Once I was away from those runners, I ran at a more deliberate pace, which was my intent.

Late start, but I was tired last night, and slept in.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
5.00 44:33 44:33 08:55 08:55 5.00

4.91mi, 44:24, 10 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Material Issue, cover of The Hollies, "Bus Stop"
Tommy Keene, cover of The Hollies, "Carrie Anne"
"Rendezvous with Destiny"
"The All-American Soldier"

WX at 0700: 68.0 (20.0) DP 64.0 (17.8) BP 29.9 (1012) Calm RH 87

Odometer 11A: 118.5mi

Z3 high/Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 153/173

I slept in yesterday, and it felt pretty good. Today's run felt okay at first but felt much better by around the 4-mile mark.

As usual, I felt SIGNIFICANTLY better at about the 4-mile mark. Between that, and the generally flatter terrain (miles 3 and 4 were mostly uphill) I suspect that had something to do with it also.

I had forgotten about Material Issue, which was one of my favorite power-pop guilty pleasures during my college years. I was sorry to hear that lead singer Jim Ellison had committed suicide in 1996. The market for power-pop, alas, has decreased a lot since the early 90s.

I was pondering the politics of what combat service identification badge to wear today, briefly, which sparked the two divisional songs at the end.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:55 08:55 08:55 08:55 1.00
1.00 17:47 08:52 08:52 08:54 2.00
1.00 27:04 09:17 09:17 09:01 3.00
1.00 36:20 09:16 09:16 09:05 4.00
0.91 44:24 08:04 08:52 09:03 4.91

3.75mi, 36:07, 8 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: R.E.M., "Driver 8"

WX at 0600: 78.1 (25.6) DP 64.0 (17.8) BP 29.79 (1008) S 17 RH 62

Odometer 11A: 113.6mi

Z2.
Average/max heart rate = 147/165

Today was a deliberately light run after the last three days. My legs were real beat, so I knew I wasn't getting much out of this other than maybe some junk miles and lard burn.

Meh.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:41 09:41 09:41 09:41 1.00
1.00 19:04 09:23 09:23 09:32 2.00
1.00 29:08 10:04 10:04 09:43 3.00
0.75 36:07 06:59 09:19 09:38 3.75

You have the right to be a jackass...

I guess asshats don't like that whole common courtesy thing. AMF.

2.4mi + 4,000m on Concept2 Model D, 17:35, 7 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Death Cab for Cutie, "A Movie Script Ending"
Linkin Park, "A Place For My Head"
Death Cab for Cutie, "Doors Unlocked and Open"

WX at 0600: 73.0 (22.8) DP 66.0 (18.9) BP 29.85 (1010) S 12 RH 78

Odometer 11A: 109.8mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = no reading

After a nice chat with an orthopedic specialist I decided to do something other than just running. So, it was the first time on the Concept in a long, long while.

When the stereo at the gym in which the Concept sits is playing Linkin Park, it's going to stick. Oh well. Could be worse.

The run back after 4km of erg really sucked monkey balls. It always does. At least my knees don't hurt. Yet.

Today was quite pleasant this morning, surprising for a day that's supposed to be craptacularly hot. Summer's here, and she is pissed.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 96. Heat index values as high as 100. Breezy, with a south wind 9 to 12 mph increasing to between 18 and 21 mph. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph.

This is the weather I associate with 20-foot tall sheets of flame going through the plains when grass catches on fire. I saw it at Fort Riley years ago. Nothing like seeing armored vehicles hauling ass to escape a giant sheet of grass fire.

The road to recovery (whatever it is) continues.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.21 11:04 11:04 09:09 09:09 1.21
1.21 22:01 10:57 09:03 09:06 2.42

Distance: 4000
Time: 00:17:35
Avg/500m: 02:12
Drag Factor: 112
Per Mile: 00:07:04

6.9mi, 64:19, 6 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
The Cure, "Disintegration"
Above and Beyond feat. Oceanlab, "On A Good Day"

WX at 0600: 73.9 (23.3) DP 66.0 (18.9) BP 29.94 (1013) SSW 13 RH 76

Odometer 11A: 106.2mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 152/172

Today was likely a day of lard burning, but my legs remain dead even after two days of rest. My lack of speed remains problematic, but I think that's also a function of the extra weight I've been carrying around for the last year.

It is still frustrating to run on dead legs. Uphills are the worst part. There is nothing fun about that.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:14 09:14 09:14 09:14 1.00
1.00 18:35 09:21 09:21 09:17 2.00
1.00 27:50 09:15 09:15 09:17 3.00
1.00 37:23 09:33 09:33 09:21 4.00
1.00 47:04 09:41 09:41 09:25 5.00
1.00 56:12 09:08 09:08 09:22 6.00
0.90 04:19 08:07 09:01 09:19 6.90

6.62mi, 63:52, 3 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Dos Gringos, "Death Cab for Cutie, "Doors Unlocked and Open"

WX at 0700: 77.0 (25.0) DP 68.0 (20.0) BP 29.91 (1012) S 15 RH 73

Odometer 11A: 99.3mi

Z3.
Average/max heart rate = 155/184

My legs were absolutely destroyed today. They started out tired and it sort of went downhill from there. I wanted to do two things, however:

1. Get a run along the airfield berfore it floods (the Missouri River is slated to exceed flood stage Real Soon Now)
2. See if I could get glycogen regenesis going (which I believe happened).

There was a noticeable improvement in how I felt starting at around the 55-minute mark and it wasn't just because I was running on level ground. That improvement stayed in place even on the gentle uphill going back.

I walked some. I didn't want to redline myself (although with a max HR of 184, I did at some point today).

I deliberately didn't pay attention to how crappy my splits were today. That wasn't the point.

I'm taking tomorrow off. Sad thing is that even after all this work, I still ran only about 20 miles this week. Sad, sad, sad.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:23 09:23 09:23 09:23 1.00
1.00 18:31 09:08 09:08 09:15 2.00
1.00 28:15 09:44 09:44 09:25 3.00
1.00 38:02 09:47 09:47 09:30 4.00
1.00 47:43 09:41 09:41 09:33 5.00
1.00 58:08 10:25 10:25 09:41 6.00
0.62 03:52 05:44 09:15 09:39 6.62

3.09mi, 29:19, 2 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
30 Seconds to Mars, "Closer to the Edge"
Unsensored, opening credit music to "Life With Derek" (Yes. No! Yes.)

WX at 0700: 66.9 (19.4) DP 66.9 (19.4) BP 30.06 (1017) SW 5 RH 100

Odometer 11A: 92.7mi

Z2.
Average/max heart rate = 148/170

I felt like crap but needed to get in a run after eating my ass off yesterday.

I have no idea why I had either of the two songs stuck in my head. As an aside, and I never realized this the day after quoting My So-Called Life (a show I religiously watched some 16 years ago) but the lead singer of the band whose song gets beaten to death every weekend in NCAA lacrosse season is Jared Leto.

Yes. The guy with the giant pink mohawk is Jordan fucking Catalano. I was dumbfounded when I read it.

I gotta admit, Claire Danes is pretty hot. No giant epiphany here.

Today was a recovery run of wogging, nothing more. I wasn't up for anything but that. It'll be hot the next few days. Yay.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:22 09:22 09:22 09:22 1.00
1.00 19:06 09:44 09:44 09:33 2.00
1.00 28:26 09:20 09:20 09:29 3.00
0.09 29:19 00:53 09:49 09:29 3.09

5.83mi, 51:00, 1 JUN 11, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: The Legion of Doom, "Dangerous Business Since 1979"

WX at 0700: 63.0 (17.2) DP 50.0 (10.0) BP 30.26 (1024) ESE 5 RH 62

Odometer 11A: 89.6mi

Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 157/178

Not sure why I felt better, although I didn't do anything but eat yesterday. I need to get out of the day on/day off routine.

I'm also not sure why I had a screamo song stuck in the back of my head, but I have to be in a certain mood to have that song in the foreground.

"Hatred can become like food. It gives you this energy. You can, like, live off it."

Angela Chase from My So-Called Life

A slightly more pithy take on it is Johnny Lydon singing 'Anger is an energy." Yes, that Johnny Rotten. From Public Image Limited.

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:54 08:54 08:54 08:54 1.00
1.00 17:29 08:35 08:35 08:45 2.00
1.00 26:36 09:07 09:07 08:52 3.00
1.00 35:31 08:55 08:55 08:53 4.00
1.00 44:05 08:34 08:34 08:49 5.00
0.83 51:00 06:55 08:20 08:45 5.83