4.23mi, 35:50, 11 SEP 09, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink:
Peter Langston, background music to the game Ballblazer
Dos Gringos, "Jeremiah Weed" (thanks to all the guys out on the track in Air Force PT uniforms getting ready to take a PT test, blocking the outer lane where I was running)

WX at 0600: 64.0 (17.8) 61.0 (16.1) 30.13 (1020) E 3 mist RH 89

Odometer 1: 122.7mi

Z4.
Average/max heart rate = 149/171

This has been a week of almost no physical activity because of the ripple effects from pulling staff duty after about two weeks of being in the classroom teaching every day. That wouldn't be bad by itself, but it's not by itself, as I grind through the reading load for my doctoral work.

It's a bad sign when you get three days of 7+ hours sleep and you're still tired. I also haven't much felt like working out, which might be a flareup of an incipient case of the fuck-its.

I briefly toyed with sleeping in, but today is September 11th, and eight years ago, I was a cavalry troop commander in the 82d Airborne Division, and wondered after the attacks, whether I'd have to actively join the Close Combat Industry.

That didn't come to pass, and I suspect my brigade combat team was being saved for something else. I don't think the planning for Iraq had happened yet, but there were other things that required the Division Ready Brigade to be in the chamber, ready to fire.

So, I didn't sleep in, although I didn't think much about the events of that fateful day, either. But I rolled out because it was the right thing to do.

I wonder what the rest of America thinks, but I'm not sure if I want to know the answer to that question since, to quote a board in Anbar Province a few years ago: "America is not at war. The Marine Corps is at war; America is at the mall."

Splits
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
1.00 08:40 08:40 08:40 08:40 1.00
1.00 17:11 08:31 08:31 08:35 2.00
1.00 25:31 08:20 08:20 08:30 3.00
1.00 33:41 08:10 08:10 08:25 4.00
0.23 35:50 02:09 09:21 08:28 4.23