Hometown Hero 5k

Everyone, meet the next F-R-E-E T-shirt:


Last Saturday, my unit put on a 5k "fun run" called the Hometown Hero 5k. The race was held the same day in both Iraq and back in Delaware, and the times are being compiled together to determine the winners, wherever they ran. It's almost like the 15k that the 146th Signal Battalion from Florida put on a few weeks ago, except that one was a HUGE race in the US, and this one was pretty much a local event. The Delaware National Guard hosts a series of runs each year, and this one counted as one of the series.

It wasn't a particularly good run for me - I've had a couple of fairly busy weeks, and going to the gym has declined from a 4-day a week affair to a 2 or 3 days a week, even reaching a low of one day last week. Getting back into the swing of things is painful, but I only declined 16 seconds on 3.1 miles, so I guess it's not that bad. It was a lot harder to run this one though, and it was slower!

Here's me crossing the finish line:



Yes, I'm actually wearing the T-shirt for the race, which may be another reason I didn't run so fast - I already had my prize at the start of the race!!

The obligatory group photo. I'm not even going to try with the names; the people in the photo are from my unit (261st Signal Brigade). The one gentleman I would like to point out is Captain Linden Boyer, the guy on the far left, who put most of this thing together (and who I can thank for ... yes, the T-shirt :)