Week 4 - Day . . . . . " What one man can do, another can do . . "

Instead of boring you with endless updates, I thought I would blog when something strikes me or I make an advancement in my training.

This past week I ran my best 4 miles at 8:20 a mile at 225 lbs. During my run I felt strong. I began to think about the Paul Bunyan-like stature we've given Cadre at GORUCK, and then I remembered what a friend and retired Recon Marine told me ( this guy was top of his class in 13 of the schools he attended), " They're just men. If they did it, so can you. Yes, it's physical, and it's mental."

I began to think of the movie "The Edge" and Anthony Hopkins telling a scared Alec Baldwin, " Repeat after me, What one man can do, another can do, again, again, . . I'm going to kill the bear, again . . "  I repeated this very phrase for the last mile of my run. It was my best mile.