Fast Running Soldier

Wow, can you say Humid in Georgia! By 7:00am it was so hot and so humid. After getting back I drank two glasses of cold water in an air conditioned house, then took a shower and was still sweating just a little bit after that. The run was much harder than I thought it would be. The humidity was tough to run hard through, hopefully it doesn't affect me too much!

It has been a while...sorry! Tuesday I was up at 5:30am to take my brother to Atlanta for an early flight, then Heather got into Atlanta late and it was a crazy evening getting things ready. 

Wednesday the movers came...I should have gotten up and ran, but I was pretty exhausted from the day before and all the driving without a nap. Excuses basically!

Today was much better. The humidity is still getting to me. I did this run in 1:00:48 so that a 7:36 average pace. It was hillier than what I am used to running, so maybe that made a difference. I hope that I can bring down my times though, I thought the altitude adjustment would work better for me...we'll see! 

Today's run was faster and I was grateful for it! I ran this one in 58:20, which made me got just a little over 8 miles. That was an average of 7:17, much better! I felt better this morning maybe because it was a little cooler, but still Georgia humidity. I ran a different course, I am just picking places to run. They have a river walk here on post that is nice. It is a straight shot from my house about 1:25 miles, yesterday I turned left, today I went right. It went by the National Infantry Museum and then along the 'Follow Me' golf course. It was pretty for so early in the morning. My miles were as follows:

8:23 (pretty slow, I tried to not got out to fast)   7:37  7:27   7:11   6:56   7:03   6:49   6:52 

  Almost four miles sub 7minutes, that is something that I am really shooting for on these long runs. Things look okay, I just need to try and keep it up here in the next few weeks! 

  Had our PT test today. It was a surprise for me when I showed up, but I should have realized a 0445 formation meant PT test. I did just about what I thought I would do except for my pushups. For whatever reason I started to get tired around 50 and just barely maxed with 76...I don't know in the world happened. Situps were good and my two mile run was 12:23. The course measured 2.02 and when my GPS watch beeped for the 2 mile I was at 12:14. The course was a full mile loop so your ran around it twice. There were like 300 people on the track at the same time so it was a bit slow and crowded...oh well.

Later in the evening I went an ran the other mileage...I am really embarrassed to put down the time that I ran it in, so I am not. Needless to say, don't go running right after you eat dinner. At least wait more than 15 minutes :( 

Woke up early and did 3 miles on my own with a 7:35 pace and then as a Platoon we did the other mileage at the ridiculously slow pace of 9:53 average. Luckily I was a road guard so I got a little bit more of a workout running to stop traffic and relieving the other road guard. That is about it for the day!

Had a ridiculously early formation for a urinalysis and didn't get home until pretty late. Didn't get anything done today...

Today was a slow run with the platoon. We have some pretty weak individuals...I am a roadguard which helps getting more of a workout with the sprinting back and forth. I also ran a bit more because of having to drop back and then run forward again. At one point I hit a sub 6min. quarter mile with my fastest pace at 5:11. It was downhill and nice to run fast like that.

Today I put the five miles in that we did for a ruckmarch. Obviously we weren't running but it was a good march. Our formation was ridiculously early again for shots and the we were off for the ruckmarch. Didn't get home until 9:45pm. The OP-tempo is pretty crazy right now, there doesn't seem to be a set schedule and I can't go out and run at 8:00pm with only spending like :30min with my wife and son...I am way frustrated!

This morning I woke up early and couldn't fall back asleep so I went out for a run and got 7 miles in before PT. My average pace was a 7:30, a bit slower than I would like. I was hurting the last two miles. Running our here is a little bit more hilly than what I have been running back in Utah, rolling hills that is. Then for PT today we did two miles but in intervals. It was a crossfit workout so we did a bunch of core stuff and then did laps around the track. It was good. I was glad I had a good workout before PT!

Not much of a run today, but we did it in our Interceptor Body Armor (IBA). Those are flack vests with heavy plates put in them to withstand bullet shots. They were heavy to run with and a bit uncomfortable. Our average pace was a 10:37. At the end we broke off and ran on our own for the last 1/8th of a mile up a hill and back to the PT area. I took off and was first to finish and at some point hit a 4:44 pace (according to the GPS). It was good to get some time for a fast portion of the run.

Didn't go to bed until like 2:30am because of zeroing our PEC-15s to get ready for a night fire. So we didn't get up and do PT in the morning but had an hour to do PT later. I ran on the treadmill and started slow and got progressively faster. I went 8:20   7:30   6:45   6:10. It was nice to finish those last two miles sub-13:00 Hopefully we'll try and keep the mileage up. 

Didn't go to bed until 4:00am so there was no PT and no time to workout... :(

Got home much earlier 11:45pm but was so exhausted from this week that I didn't get up early and we didn't have PT at all. Tomorrow I'll run somemore!

A good little run with my wife and my son. We pushed him in our little running stroller. 

Really slow run for PT. Every three minutes we stopped to do a series of push-ups, sit-ups, etc. We are at the FOB now, so PT is going to be pretty interesting...if it happens at all.

We did a 7 mile footmarch today. I know it isn't running, so I won't really count it, but it does provide some sort of workout.

We got up early to do combatives at the FOB. It really isn't fun being here. BOLC II is aweful and I am just counting down the days!

No PT today. We had a 0330 formation to head out and do land nav. We started about 0500 so we had an hour or so of dark and then into day land nav. The course here is REALLY long so you have to jog quite a ways to get your points in the 5 hours you get. I probably did something like 6 miles today just walking around the course, possibly more!

Today was a good run. I ran with a buddy Charlie who is down here with me. He is trying to get into shape for our Ranger PT test that will come in about a month. We ran five miles together and did that in about 8:25 pace or so. It was slow for me, but it gave me mileage and somebody to run with. For the Ranger PT test we have to run 5 miles under 40min. which won't be difficult for me but Charlie is having a hard time. Good thing we have a month and I can help him. 

   After we got back home I went out and ran two more miles at a pretty quick pace. I ran the first mile in about 6:21 and the second in about 6:23. It was nice to be able to run quick. I am noticing my ability to run longer distances at that quick pace is falling off. I was pretty exhuasted at the end of those two miles. I know it came after 5 miles, but it shouldn't have been that hard. I can't wait for BOLC II to end!