No Run Day

Well today was my day off from running which was nice because I definitely needed a recuperation day. Sunday will be my long run day each week. I don't know how long tomorrows run will be but it should be longer than my normal 5+ miles. I hope to work up to over 10 miles each Sunday pretty soon though. Since today is a no running day I figure I will take pictures from around the base here and post what life is like for me here at Bagram. I will start with photos of my B-Hut room. In the B-Hut there are 8 little cubicles which are 7 x 7. They are not the biggest but when you work 12 hours a day and hardly spend any time in it, it really doesn't matter how big they are.

Here is a picture from the entrance of my B-Hut and you can see that it is not very wide at all. You can also see that I have a bunk bed in there and I would hate to be the person who has to sleep up there because the ceiling is right on top of the bunk. Good thing I don't have a roommate so I can use it for storage for all my bags.

This is a picture taken from the back of my room to show both sides of my B-Hut room and to show you my computer desk. Pretty fancy right! Well I hope this gives you a little insight to what I am living in here at Bagram. It could be worse I could be living in what they call RLB's which house 4 to a room. It is nice to be able to shut my door and have a little privacy. Until next time...

Running Totals for 8 May 09

My internet sucks so I need to make this quick and post my totals for today. I ran 5.21 miles, burned 1105 Calories in 59:59. I am really pissed that I am paying for this crappy internet. I hope everything is going good with everyone. I will post a longer one tomorrow hopefully if the internet cooperates a little more. Until next time...

Running Totals for 7 May 09

Well this week isn't getting any easier trying to get 6 days of running in. But what do you expect when I haven't ran for so long. I have made it through 4 days of running so far and every time I get off work I try really hard to talk myself out of running and just going to sleep. My justification is I can always run in the afternoon. But we all know that is not going to happen if I don't go in the morning. OK, let's stay on point here, today I ran 5.12 miles, burned 1086 calories, and it took me 60 grueling minutes to complete. Two more days to go for this week and I will hit my goal of 30 miles this week. That is if my legs don't fall off in the process. Until next time...

Running Totals for 6 May 09

Well today was a pretty good run. I switched things up today and went and ran after work. I did this because yesterday when I went in the afternoon I had to wait almost 30 minutes for a treadmill. I almost said screw the run but I stuck it out and waited. This morning there was hardly anyone in there. I don't know why but when I work days it is a lot easier to go run after work but when I work nights it is extremely hard to go run when I get off of work. I really don't get it. Anyways I ran 5.48 miles, burned 1162 calories, and I ran for 65 minutes. I am half way done with my first week of running and it hasn't been easy because I am such a fatty at the moment.

I got my new Pearl Izumi's in the mail today which I love (thanks mom for sending them to me). I won't be able to wear them until i drop quite a bit of weight because if I wore them now to run I would crush them within a month I bet. Anyways, I should be sleeping at the moment so until next time....

Running Totals for 5 May 09

Today I ran 5.28 Miles, burned 1121 calories in 59:48. The elevation is kicking my butt, but then again this is my first week and I haven't ran for awhile. I just need to stick to it. It was finally a sunny day here. For a minute there I thought it was going to snow here, scary! I love you all, until next time.....

Running Totals for 4 May 09

Today I ran 5.39 miles and burned roughly 1165 calories. It is pretty tough running above 5000 feet so I hope that will benefit me with losing weight. Or if it does't it could just make my life hell while I am trying to lose the weight. Either way I am heading in the right direction as of today. My starting weight was 282. I will weigh every Monday to see how I am progressing. Should be a good time.


Just wanted to post a quick picture of the front of my B-Hut. This is after a little rain storm. Can you imagine what it would have been like if it was a big down pour!! I will try to add more pics from around Camp Cunningham (where I live) as the deployment progresses so you have an idea of what I am dealing with here. Love you all and until next time...

Hello from Afghanistan

If you haven't figured it out yet, I finally got the internet hooked up in my room. Now the trick is getting it to work so I can use it. I actually got it set up yesterday but I have been waiting all day for the repair guy to come out and see what is wrong with my connection. He was supposed to be here between 2-4PM but never showed up. I got sick of waiting so I decided to play repair man myself and got into the cable/internet box outside our B-Hut and see if I could fix it myself. Yes, yes, I am not supposed to do that BUT who gives a crap!! Come to find out my line was disconnected so I plugged it back in and problem solved. Who needs a repair man when I can break into thier box and trouble shoot it myself.

Anyways, we arrived here on the 23rd of April and we were temporarily living in what I called the POL (Fuels) garage for about 5 days. I finally got moved into my B-Hut shortly after that and I finally got around to getting the internet yesterday. This place reminds me a lot of Utah, terrain wise. That is without Al Qeada and the Taliban running around trying to kill us. We are pretty busy here which is good, because I hope it makes my time go quicker. I am working in the Control Center here and doing the same job I did back in Okinawa so that is nice. Other than that life here is pretty mundane. I hope to get started with my "Running Project" on Monday because I have been dealing with one heck of a chest cold. I figure regardless of how I feel Monday will be the day I get to work on losing the weight and start training for the Naha Marathon in December.

On a side note before I end, we do a lot of Cash Sales for Fuel here. There is nothing like holding more than you make in a year in your hands! Until next time...