Loco Representis
Jim is the craziest lawyer I've ever met. The Army sponsored a 10-mile run today at one of the northern Kuwait camps; Jim and two lieutenants decided to run in it (I passed on the offer, of course). Jim and the boys drove up to the camp last night so that they could be fresh and ready to run at 0600 this morning. I know what you're thinking, but a 10 mile run is not the crazy part.
Here's the crazy part: Jim forgot to bring his running shoes with him last night. He was in uniform when he travelled to the camp, so the only footwear he had was his desert combat boots, made by Belleville (they deserve a plug). Even though he had no running shoes, Jim decided to run the 10 miles anyhow... in boots. IN BOOTS.
I've never run more than 2 or 3 miles in boots and that was when i was 20 years old in Airborne School. I've run ten milers and a half marathon before, but not in boots, for Pete's sake. His feet were not even torn to shreds like mine would have been.
Jim is hard core. Hard like woodpecker lips. I don't know if he's the best lawyer in the world, but I do know he's the craziest.
Here's the crazy part: Jim forgot to bring his running shoes with him last night. He was in uniform when he travelled to the camp, so the only footwear he had was his desert combat boots, made by Belleville (they deserve a plug). Even though he had no running shoes, Jim decided to run the 10 miles anyhow... in boots. IN BOOTS.
I've never run more than 2 or 3 miles in boots and that was when i was 20 years old in Airborne School. I've run ten milers and a half marathon before, but not in boots, for Pete's sake. His feet were not even torn to shreds like mine would have been.
Jim is hard core. Hard like woodpecker lips. I don't know if he's the best lawyer in the world, but I do know he's the craziest.
posted at 10/02/2005 06:16:00 AM
1 Comments:
All we had were boots to run in in my days at MCRD San Diego. We went as far as 13 miles in them on the run. Our DIs would run in their full utilities with the Smokey the Bear hat on the entire way in their boots. Of course we had really good leather boots back then. To break them in we would soak them and then beat one with the other until the leather softened up. We did that at the outdoor wash racks we used for other things like doing our laundry.
Thanks for bringing that memory out of the "ol'" memory banks.
Take Care.
Randy H.
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