Army Ranger, Sgt. 1st Class Cedric King ran a half Ironman. He swam 1.2 miles. He cycled 56 miles. He finished his day with a half marathon, 13.1 miles of running. King stepped on an IED in Afghanistan in 2012. Earlier this year he finished the Boston Marathon. He is a hard man.
Rangers lead the way.
He passed on his second loop just after I’d seen a woman, of whom I wrote: “Just gave a high five to perhaps the last contestant on the course, looking beat, looking haggard. Looking determined, looking awesome.”
She was awesome, but I’d already seen King once as well. Before Cedric King came back by the locals started pulling up the cones. Cedric King just kept motoring along, having run, twice, past signs with head shots placed in honor of his brothers in arms who gave their lives in the Middle East.
I slapped him on the back as he came by the first time, and I wanted to go run through a wall after that. Demonstrations of will are always an impressive site.
(All of those Cedric King links are to different things. You could do worse, today, than spending a few minutes to click and read and listen to those.)
I feel good today. I am tired. I feel like I rode a bike for about three hours and then drove for about four. Mostly because I did. Today, then, is just kind of a get-through-it day. Here are some pictures of trains that have been tagged.
Hey, graffiti has always been popular on this site.
I wonder how Sgt. 1st Class Cedric King is feeling today. Awesome, I hope.
