Half Marathon, Old Friend, and Words of Wisdom

I have officially been out of the US of A for more than 1 month. The time seems to fly when you look back on it, but i am not going to complain!

Today I participated in a Half Marathon competition. I decided to do it the smart way with a team, vs trying to do the entire thing by myself. I dont think it would have been bad - but i have learned over the past four weeks that the organized runs out here never have enough water/aid stations to support the participants. You would think that they would be able to have more people out there helping hand out water...and you really need a lot of water because the heat is cranking up...but there still is only limited aid stations to support us. not so much fun. My team finished in the top ten for the entire base, which was awesome; but a couple of solo runners beat us. oh well...life goes on.

While i was on the run, i bumped into an old classmate of mine. Kevin Goulding cross commissioned into the army upon graduation, and is stationed out here for the next couple of weeks. He is getting ready to head home (lucky!) and so it was great to see him out here. He was one of the solo runners that my team overtook in the last hundred yards of the race - but still one heck of a job for Kevin! (pictures were taken, lets home the internet decides to cooperate and work this time around...)

On another note = when you create a document and submit it to the higher ups, make sure you bring a copy of what you made to the meeting in which that document will be briefed. Sometimes someone will make changes to your document and not tell you, then proceed to brief it even though there are inaccuracies listed on it. If you have the printout of what you emailed, then you cant be pinned for stating something wrong. This may or may not have happened to me...and i may or may not have printed off the original email before the meeting. But I will say that i was able to cover my butt at all meetings this past week. Good times!