Quick Update from A-stan

Andrew's weekend activities consisted of work (no 5 day work weeks on deployment), emailing with me, and oh yeah, running a half marathon. At 7100 feet elevation. On the gravel trails at the FOB. Incredible! I was thrilled with myself when I ran my best ever mile for time last week and then he turns around and runs 13.1 without batting an eye! Pretty darn amazing!

Andrew ran it with 130 other soldiers (both American and Polish) and finished in just about 2 hours. Not to worry though, they stayed inside the wire... they weren't running around Afghan-land unprotected and without body armor or guns! Just all around the gravel "roads" of the FOB. According to Andrew, you get used to the elevation after a while, the worst part was running on that gravel.

So there he is (second from the left if you can't tell) right before the race! A little bit different than the start of the Boston Marathon almost 2 years ago. It really is a whole different world over there... 

Anyways, thought I would share this picture with you all so you can all get a better concept of what it looks like over there. The Striker is in the way, but hopefully you get the general idea!