Late Update

This is coming in a bit later than I would like, but for a good reason. We have been on a 4-day weekend. I got to see my wife and son for a few days. We got a hotel in downtown Columbus for a couple of nights. It's not that bad an area, as long as you don't get out of the historic district or the college area.

Friday we had a release run in the morning. What this is.....they march us to an area, then we are released to run 3 miles at our own pace. The only caveat is you cannot stop running. They were nice to us and marched us to the area instead of running there, although we did run on the way back. I was able to complete it at a moderate pace, I still need to drop a minute or so off my run time to really boost my PT score though.

One thing about PT here, it does not seemed really aimed at improving but more at testing. For a company that is known for running we only really run 2-3 times a week at most. I think the main thing that will help me is if I lose about 20lbs all together, running with this much extra weight on my legs is just asking for an injury. I guess I will wait and see if I notice any improvement in a couple weeks when we have our second PT test.

After the release run on Friday morning we had classes all day. They were classes on Tactics (or TicTacs as the dyslexic man would say). Pretty simple stuff, and it's odd but with years of playing computer games I can recognize the same tactics that were used by successful teams in a game. There is a lot of information to imbibe for these classes. I don't imagine it will be too difficult to meet the minimum standard but to be in that top percentage or to score perfectly is going to take some work.

To help me I did pick up a $30 printer from the PX (post exchange, like a Walmart with no tax). All the classes have Powerpoint slides posted ahead of time and we have been printing them in the computer lab, but now that everyone wants to it is causing quite a backlog and they are constantly out of paper. I imagine it is only a matter of time before they they restrict the printing of the slides off on that printer.

If you come to the area I would recommend the Marriott downtown, they have a nice military discount that brings the price down to $84, it's next to the riverwalk, the university, and the other downtown attractions. Plus they have a coffee shop right in the Hotel.