This week ends on a good note and begins on a good one. This week was interesting with Monday requiring training for our Government purchase cards and Wednesday bringing Swim Qualification. Ended the weekend with the Turkey Traks 5k run on Futenma Air Station. Finished 4th overall, but to be honest I think the real fast runners did the 10k. This week I start the 10K training plan and work toward that goal.

Kim has been busy planning for Thanksgiving Day. We have about 3 Marines I work with coming over for lunch/dinner with us. Afterwards, Kim and I plan on making plates for all the guys on watch and bringing them some dinner.

This week was another boring one. I had annual pistol qualification which did not go too bad. Been working on getting a good resume built just in case I do call it quits after this tour. Other than that I have been running and just finished an 85 minute run this morning to end out the weeks training. I will be running in the Turkey Tracks 5k race on November 22nd at Futenma Air Station.

Gannon finished the cross country season with a good run at Kadena High School’s course. If he decides to put his mind to it and train in the off season, he will be a very good runner next year. His Brazilian Soccer Club team played Ryuku University JH and they played to a 2-2 tie. It was a very good game and Gannon’s teammates played a really good game. Gannon’s coach has asked him and a couple of the other bigger boys to start practicing with the adult team. He practiced this last Friday with them and held his own, as did the other younger boys who practiced with them. Their coach has been asked to work as an assistant for his high school team which Gannon is very happy about.