2011

Sayonara 2011. I hope most had a good one. 2012 WILL be better.

Trucked

31 hours travel time, door to door. Always a fun excursion. 1 Celcius vs. 12 Celcius.

Time to take care of unfinished business.

Keep trucking on

Flight count for the year is at 50 for 50. Yippee. Glad it's 100%

Did an analysis of the days I have been out of the country YTD, a nice round 187 days, by the end it should be 202. Next year I plan for a hundred or less.

Running is back on. Since my 1:17:48 10 miler last weekend (and a slight jaunt in between) I decided I better pull up my trousers and start adding the mileage. Yesterday was 10.1 and today was 11.1 in 1:20:25 and 1:27:18 respectively. My goal goal for year end is to accumulate 1000 miles, which now I am at 641.4 which means I have to find 4.781 miles per day, which would include my trip out of the country again. I will just have to put the efforts in.

Not too sure what next year has in store race wise. I would like to do some pretty silly things but I will keep them to myself right now. No Ironmans as I cannot commit to the biking and swimming.

Have a great weekend!

2011 Army Ten Miler Shadow Run

Kandahar...

Finished in 1:17:48...

Happy with the time with little to no training. Who knows what's next???

Happy Oct 1

Finally received my bag 5 days later.

I signed up for the Army Ten-Miler Shadow Run tomorrow. My guess is that they call it a Shadow Run because it starts at 0430. I am not setting any expectations for this gig. Usually I would be a little optimistic on this and peg it at 70 minutes. Given that I have run 36.2 miles in September and 40.7 in August, I will throw 78 minutes out there.

Will follow up tomorrow afternoon with how that pans out, hopefully I don't wreck nothing.

I have not stayed away from exercise though. My staff have managed to swindle me in going to Zumba with them. Yep. Trev with two left feet and zip for coordination. Hard enough for me to put one foot in front of another for 100,000 steps let alone actually having to place my foot in any strategic movement.

Flying

So far this year I have taken 43 take-offs (much more with stops on the way without deplaning) and thankfully 43 landings.

I arrived yesterday and mysteriously my luggage is 10,000 miles away in Chicago still.

Not sure if it will arrive before I leave on the 6th but I guess that will be a flip of a coin.

I hope all are well!

Kids 1st Day - 2011

IMCAD 2011

Good luck to all the Ironman Canada Athletes tomorrow.

If there are any spots open on Monday noon it looks like I am in at the moment but lots can change in the next 36 hours plus that darned 702 USD entry fee.

I will be there in Spirit but for now be enjoying at 26c at home with 2 brand new, broken compressor air conditioning units... Ick.

Giver

RHCP

Only 12 more days until the new RHCP album drops. Wow, been a while.

"Who knew that putting together a guy with a mustache, a young dude wearing grandpa pants, a flea with blue hair and Will Ferrell you could have the best band in the world?"

Tomorrow starts full bore running, ran Tuesday and things hurt so should be back to normal tomorrow morning and then need to drop that 17.

Looks like I am not going on business next week which I thought a few weeks ago so maybe I will go and sign up for IMC with the boys? I need to figure out next years work schedule in the next few days or I won't be able to commit. Ick... Ugh...

Holidays

It has been a while since I posted, I have been out of Afghanistan since July 17th and holidays since.

Tonight is the last night abroad, finishing up in Palm Springs and fly home tomorrow.

Going to get back on the train game starting on Sunday morning and will be back on my regular updates.

Till then.