4.54mi, 44:03, 30 JUL 14, Bagram, Afghanistan

Today is day 250 of the campaign.

iThink:
Above & Beyond feat. Oceanlab, On A Good Day" (original, Jer Martin mix and Daniel Kandi remix)

WX at Noon (16) Jul 30 82 (28) 60 (16) 29.85 (1011) ESE 12 RH 47

Odometer 14A: 206.0mi

Z3 start, Z4 finish. Average/max heart rate = 152/164

Holy fucking shit did I feel like ass today. I was thinking I was going to run the perimeter of BAF tonight, but just in case, I decided to cut it short, thinking I was going to try to make it in for an initial manifest call for a flight I was thinking about trying to get. I was able to get on it, so I'm proceeding with onward movement.

The generally unsettled feeling with not being at my home base or at home for more than 24 hours is not a big deal - as this is my third deployment - but the sense of dislocation never escapes me.

Just on principle, I'd like to run Bagram Airfield's perimeter again. This is something that might have to wait until I'm getting ready to go home. But I'll do it, just on principle. I'll try to do it when I come back, if only to revisit one of the touchstones of my last deployment, and one of the things that kept me sane back then.


Also, I think my GPS settings were wonky as they were all over the place. Then again, there was the usual healthy wind that characterizes running at Bagram in the summer.  Yay.  I used to call it the 120-day blowjob...if only because I thought "120 days of wind" sounded too mundane.  It sure as shit wasn't mundane when you were running into a 25mph headwind.

Splits

SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 09:03 09:03 09:03 09:03 1.00
1.00 19:18 10:15 10:15 09:39 2.00
1.00 29:23 10:05 10:05 09:48 3.00
1.00 38:56 09:33 09:33 09:44 4.00
0.54 48:29 09:33 17:41 10:41 4.54