Early to rise and reap the benefits. This morning, I set the alarm for 4:30am with the intent to run into the sunrise. Again, another restless night and difficulty sleeping. More on that later. Anyway, I was on the road at 5am, it was cool and the sun was about to rise behind the Hindu Kush Mountains. No wind, either, so no dust. I headed on out around the outer perimeter and turned back at the 3mi point to get a total of 6 miles. On the way out and back, I stopped and pumped out about 25 pushups each time and watched a pretty gorgeous sunrise over the mountains. No color like back home but still nice. Back in my room, the normal espresso and cereal started the day. The day was just an OK day. I feel like I'm coming down with some kind of cold or something. Scratchy throat and just feeling cruddy. Of course, I felt fine during the run. But like I said...just an OK day and really nothing worthy of blogging.
As for that restless sleep, I found it interesting that a deployment survey by the Navy that I took today asked a lot of questions about sleep. It was a survey about stress and being deployed in a war zone. For most of the survey, it didn't apply to me as I haven't ever been in Harm's Way, but others must have issues with sleeping, too. I don't know the reason...I really have no idea. I hope I can start sleeping well again.
After taking the shuttle back and grabbing some dinner, I really have no desire to do anything else but crawl in bed and end this day. Lots of stuff swirling in my head that needs silenced so hopefully, falling asleep takes care of that. The good thing is that tomorrow holds the last Saturday of September. Sweet. It also is the day my relief leaves his processing site and heads to combat training...his last stop before he heads over the pond and into the war zone. But first, he's gotta deal with the Army drill sergeants for 2-3 weeks and get used to saying "Hooah!" like I did. hehehehehe....
Goodnight, everyone.
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