I ran yet another race this morning. It was kind of short notice, and I didn't even register for it until this week. The Dutch hosted a 5k / 10k / 10 miler, and I decided to do the 10k since I had never raced that distance, plus I wanted to save myself for the half marathon coming up on November 7th. I didn't train specifically for it, and just ran it inline with my half marathon training. Today was supposed to be my long run anyway. I wasn't sure what pace I should be running at this distance, so I guessed at 7:40. I did pretty well and managed to maintain a 7:45 average. I finished with an official time of 47:20, but this time the Garmin said the course was short by .18 km. I used the Finish Time Calculator at the Runner's World website to estimate my finish time for the full 10k, and it said I would have done it in 48:11. Either way, that's way better than my 10k split time of 53:49 from the Army 10 miler at the beginning of the month. By the way, the main selling point for this one was "All asphalt, no dust". The only problem is that there aren't 10 km of paved roads on this base, so the course ended up being a somewhat goofy four legged out-and-back kind of thing. Not my favorite, but I did like staying off the gravel.
The good news is that hump day was about a week ago, so there are now more days here behind us than ahead. The frustrating part is that even though they have requested airlift to get us out of here, we still don't know exactly when we'll be leaving and probably won't for a while. Even more frustrating is that I may be out of Kandahar by the 12th, but still might not be home until the 18th. This is normal for a deployment and usually I'm much more tolerant of the uncertainty, but it's different when you have a target date that falls right in the middle of the return date range. I'm still keeping my fingers crossed. Hope to see you there! --Steve
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