New Year

We had a fabuloous time this morning.

Okay. That was a little on the sarcastic side.

We formed up for a battalion formation run this morning before the sun even came up, but that's not the unusual part for here on Okinawa. Just before we started running, one of our Marines got taken away and put in the brig. Yep, that's right. We put a guy in jail this morning and he'll stay there until we're ready to leave for home. He can't control himself when it comes to alcohol, so he's been locked up. But I digress.

We ran around the base. We ran, and ran, and kept running. When all was said and done, we'd run for 4.48 miles, so I've rounded that to 4.5 for the tracker. Our time was pretty slow. It took us 41 minutes to run that course, so we're talking about, what, 9 1/2 minute miles here? The tough thing about running in formation is that there isn't much room for lateral movement and your steps are usually chopped shorter than normal so you don't step on the guy in front of you. Still, it was a good sweat and a decent way to get into the weekend. I've heard that we're going to run again next Friday, in "boots and utes" and that will probably hurt, but that's not for another 7 days. In the mean time, have a great new year and let's hear some of those resolutions.

My main resolution is to pull a Forrest/Dori and "just keep running."