June 30, 2005 

June 30, 2005

RACE DAY


I had to wake up at 3:30 this morning. The 8th Army 10-Miler was today. The race started at 7:15, but we had a 2 hour bus ride to get there. I met up with SSG Adams and she gave me a ride to the gym where the bus was picking everyone up.


It was still dark outside when we left at 5 A.M. to head to Camp Casey.


We got to Camp Casey around 6:30. Once we got there I went with Jennifer to get my race number adn stretch before the race. There were 5 of us running from our BN in the race. This race was the qualifyer for the Army 10-miler in Washington D.C. so there were a lot of the really fast runners turning out for this race today. All together there were over 200 people who showed up at 7 AM to run. The top 6 men and women were going to receive a trophy and a free flight to the U.S. to participate in the race.

The race was OK. I was really tired about half way through. I didn't get much sleep the night before, and I started to get some stomach cramps as I was running. They went away after a while, but they kept coming back. I got a decent time though. I came in at 1:24:15, a respectable time for myself. The fastest running came in at 53 minutes, which is less that 6 minutes per mile. That is hauling ass!!!


Here's Jennifer posing with her medal that she got for running the race. They gave us a T-shirt too. She didn't do too bad. She came in 6 minutes after I did. Her time was 18 minutes faster than she ran the race last year.


And here I am with my medal. I'll have to put it up in my office with my others. I'm starting t get a pretty good collection now.