For Shame

OK, so I slept in again this morning, and was shamed when I read a posting in a friend's blog. She works for the State Department and is currently posted in Iraq; her most recent post describes squeezing in her daily workouts around her 13 hour workdays: running on a treadmill in a trailer in the Green Zone at 5:30 in the morning, or swimming in a pool in the Palace complex. I'm not allowed to link to her blog, but here's a quote:

I had some wonderful runs while on my trip outdoors at the military bases. The most memorable one was a 5 miler along the flight line (i.e. runways) at Al Asad airbase. It is in the western desert and one of the JAG office folks took me on his regular route at 8pm and so we saw the sunset with all sorts of planes and helos landing and taking off against a barren empty sky. Pretty cool on the scale of memorable runs and it stands out even more because I haven’t been able to run outside here. At the other base we visited I ran on the paved streets alongside a multitude of others also doing their PE but in uniform. So I stuck out like a sore thumb! The mornings are really nice - only about 90 degrees Farenheit right now as the sun comes up and no humidity so it feels wonderful in comparison to the daytime highs of near 120.

So maybe I'll squeeze in a run tonight....