hunger pains

i woke up at 4 o'clock this morning from actual hunger pains. i thought maybe i was crampy or it was a gas bubble but as tossing and turning and rubbing my stomach didn't alleviate the pain, it must have been HUNGER.
i did an awesome ruck last night around the perimeter. it was the second one since the tendinitis in my foot (i took four days off) and i felt amazing!!! dick and i blazed the almost six miles and holy crap were we pooped after. i was more thirsty than anything when we got back but i still should have forced myself to eat something. a chicken breast, some cereal, anything! i barely ate lunch yesterday as the temperature has been rising and it's averaging about 115 degrees by noon time and the heat kills me. killllllllllllls me.
i am a cold climate creature. the only thing i am thankful for though is there is hardly any humidity.

hunger pains. hrmph.

so i managed to get another hour of sleep. woke up and decided that the pain really was from hunger so i ate a cliff bar. it was also time to start getting dressed to go run the mother's day 5k. i haven't gone for a run in a couple weeks as i started rucking and then hurt my foot. i had gotten up to about 4 miles on the treadmill about five times a week but with all the research, primal blueprint diet, etc. i switched to walking for the weight loss. i guess i need to figure out when to work sprints in to keep up my endurance.

also, this was all after LT Salmon killed the medical section's abs yesterday with a 20 min ab only workout. holy smokes!

working out. working out. working out. so in addition to that we also escaped to another camp about 45 mins away called Ali for short. half of the camp is air force and we have two detatchments that fall under us that operate from there. we were tasked with ensuring their buildings were stocked with first aid supplies and to dispose of any expired stuff. well that took about 20 mins...soooooooooooooo....

this is a "deployment" right?

we went to the pool!!!

it was an amazingly refreshing day. we baked ourselves in the sun, dipped into the pool and baked ourselves again. this was after applying liberal amounts of sun block of course.

we then went to the shawarma resturant (see below) and i got the most delicious fruit smoothie ever.

nom nom nom nom!

all and all it was a pretty faaaaantastic day.

counting the days until i get to see my wub. i'm hoping to keep up with walking and stuff while i'm home, although i don't know what i'll use as a ruck. i'll figure it out.

happy mother's day to all you crazy moms out there.

and to all you moms with animal babies, happy mother's day to you.

i can't wait to mush my baby.

7:30 in the morning and i've already run a 5k, showered, wrote a blog and now i'm going to throw on some shorts and go eat breakfast chow. what a fabulous day!