Peace and quiet...

This morning I woke up in one of my favorite places - Fort Campell.  I really love this base (sorry Army folks...installation...you'll have to forgive this Marine spouse), I love the people and I love the mission.  Usually when I am staying out here for meetings I get up and head to one of the fitness centers.  Today the temperatures were nice (after that monster round of storms that I managed to drive through last night on the way up here) and the sun was up early, so I hit the trail, or rather the Cole Park golf cart path.

I have to tell you, any runs this week are purely about adding miles to the tally sheet because I am otherwise saving my legs for my marathon on Saturday.  I thought the quiet of the golf cart path the day after a nasty storm was a great place to stretch out and add to that tally.  If you are familiar with the golf course on Fort Campbell, you know that it has a lot of rolling hills that dip away from the road to the treeline.  It was slightly misty near the treeline today (I can only imagine thanks to the storms) and a meditative kind of peaceful.  It was the right environment to get into my own head, hit an easy pace and pound out a few miles up and down the golf cart path from Richardson Lodging to Cole Park Commons and back.  In fact it was so peaceful I only had to share the course with a large herd of deer...and a couple groundskeepers picking up branches felled by the winds (can't have those branches covering prime fairway now can we?...I could insert all sorts of military and the golf course stories here, but I'll refrain.)

Anyway, it was a perfect way to energize the body before a day of meetings with some of the country's finest members of the Army and Army Special Forces.  Happy trails!!!

Stats -
Miles:  3.54
Time:   31:00 (average pace of 8:45 per mile)
Location:  Cole Park Golf Course, Fort Campbell
Feeling:  Nice and relaxed, need to watch the hamstrings going into Saturday