Well another week down. Every saturday we have a formation to finalize the finishing of yet another week down here, and how proud everyone is, and how good we are doing. The unit before us refered to it as burrito day, because at the chow hall it was burrito day. Well to me, its another day down and another day to getting back home. I have all these visions of what I want to get into when I get home-While I am here I am trying really hard to become a runner-it all depends on how far my feet and calfs will let me go.

I just printed out a calender with my plan for the next month of training, I have including some lifting to get my abs, arms, and back involed in this process. I am hoping by the end of April to be able to run 6 miles. Then in May I will want to be able to run 8 miles, no problem.

Then June 10 Miles, then just go with it, who wants to run more than ten miles. I am hoping with physical therapy and stretching my feet will allow me to run this far, that I will be able to run this far, even if it is on a damn treadmill.

I have nothing else to do here, so why the hell not, why not go for it. There is a half marthon on memorial day, and an actual marathon-I have no desire to get involved with either one, but I do have a goal to run ten miles by the time I get out of here, to be able to.

Also, with some down time, get into bouldering, a guy in my platoon is building a wall and wants people to start using it, so why the hell not, why not go do something.

when i return to pittsburgh i want to be able to run 10 miles after the deployment and start climbing more and more.

maybe I can use this as a tracker of my physical fittness improvements and efforts, because I do need to keep a journal on this shit.

Tonight I am running 3 Miles with my Platoon Sergent, hopefully it isn't dusty because three miles is a great start.

I can't wait for my new shoes to come, they are new balance 767, lets hope they do better then the merrel trail shoe on my calfs. Yeah we can always hope for the very best. the very best

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