New route and History...
6/7/07: 5 mile run, 44:04, 8:48/mile
20 minute weights
My old running route (the 5.5-mile one) required me to run part of my 3.2-mile route twice. The tempation would arise to fore-go the extra "lap" and simply stop at 3.2 mile and head home. So I mapped out a 5-mile route that has no overlaps. I ran it this morning and loved it! I get the big hill out of the way in the first 1/2 mile, in my old route it was in the second mile. I finished in plenty of time to do some weights at the ARC. I think that I could keep up this 5-mile routine for at least 3 days a week - of course my ambitious goal is to do it 6, but I'll start with something manageable.
My job offer at Ocean County College only adds to the grand historical events of this first week of June. In all seriousness:
15 Minutes Changed the World: The Battle of Midway, June 4-6, 1942
The first week of June is crammed full of historic military anniversaries. We commemorate the Allied D-Day assault against the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The Israeli-Arab 6-Day War began on June 5, 1967. Israeli jet pilots destroyed Saddam Hussein’s Osirak nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981. The Marshall Plan was introduced as a Cold War defense, on June 5, 1947.
Yet a US Navy battle this same week, just 6 months after Pearl Harbor and a full 2 years before D-Day, goes largely unnoticed, lost down the memory hole; yet it certainly represents "the greatest naval victory in history” and perhaps the pivotal event in world military history since the Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg in July 1863.
It is the Battle of Midway, which, like Gettysburg, occurred over a three-day period, June 4-6, 1942.
As a fan of history, especially World War II, the Battle of Midway has never gone largely unnoticed, lost down the memory hole by me. For the same reason, I am very familiar with D-Day assault at Normandy. In addition, my research on anticipatory self-defense has allowed me to become intimately familiar with the Israeli-Arab 6-Day War and the destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. Finally, working as a teaching assistant for American Foreign Policy during Fall of 2004 & 2005, I learned a great deal about the Marshall Plan.
From all of my knowledge and experience I can authoritatively conclude that all of the events mentioned above (except my job offer) have something in common: they all represent resounding blows by pro-freedom forces against those attempting to impose tyranny and destroy freedom. I don't have the time, or the will, to put together my support for that assertion. I'll pull a Rosie and just say "google it!"
Wishing some of my students would have at least done that,
Brad
20 minute weights
My old running route (the 5.5-mile one) required me to run part of my 3.2-mile route twice. The tempation would arise to fore-go the extra "lap" and simply stop at 3.2 mile and head home. So I mapped out a 5-mile route that has no overlaps. I ran it this morning and loved it! I get the big hill out of the way in the first 1/2 mile, in my old route it was in the second mile. I finished in plenty of time to do some weights at the ARC. I think that I could keep up this 5-mile routine for at least 3 days a week - of course my ambitious goal is to do it 6, but I'll start with something manageable.
My job offer at Ocean County College only adds to the grand historical events of this first week of June. In all seriousness:
15 Minutes Changed the World: The Battle of Midway, June 4-6, 1942
The first week of June is crammed full of historic military anniversaries. We commemorate the Allied D-Day assault against the Nazis on the beaches of Normandy, France, on June 6, 1944. The Israeli-Arab 6-Day War began on June 5, 1967. Israeli jet pilots destroyed Saddam Hussein’s Osirak nuclear reactor on June 7, 1981. The Marshall Plan was introduced as a Cold War defense, on June 5, 1947.
Yet a US Navy battle this same week, just 6 months after Pearl Harbor and a full 2 years before D-Day, goes largely unnoticed, lost down the memory hole; yet it certainly represents "the greatest naval victory in history” and perhaps the pivotal event in world military history since the Battle of Little Round Top at Gettysburg in July 1863.
It is the Battle of Midway, which, like Gettysburg, occurred over a three-day period, June 4-6, 1942.
As a fan of history, especially World War II, the Battle of Midway has never gone largely unnoticed, lost down the memory hole by me. For the same reason, I am very familiar with D-Day assault at Normandy. In addition, my research on anticipatory self-defense has allowed me to become intimately familiar with the Israeli-Arab 6-Day War and the destruction of the Osirak nuclear reactor in 1981. Finally, working as a teaching assistant for American Foreign Policy during Fall of 2004 & 2005, I learned a great deal about the Marshall Plan.
From all of my knowledge and experience I can authoritatively conclude that all of the events mentioned above (except my job offer) have something in common: they all represent resounding blows by pro-freedom forces against those attempting to impose tyranny and destroy freedom. I don't have the time, or the will, to put together my support for that assertion. I'll pull a Rosie and just say "google it!"
Wishing some of my students would have at least done that,
Brad