Month of Pain
So, the 1st of Novenmer is here and I’m a month away from heading home. This is it! It’s time to kick it into HIGH gear and reach those fitness goals that I had for this deployment! I want to leave here at no more than 215lbs and score a 270 or better on my fitness test for my annual evaluation. For those of you that don’t know what the Army fitness test consists of, it’s 2min of push-ups, 2min of sit-ups, and a 2mile run. You get a maximum of 100 points in each event and, for my age group, I need 77 p/u, 81 s/u, and a 13min 2mile to max. My problem has always been the 2mile run. I’ve never been a fast runner, but a couple of years ago I severely broke my right lower leg in 4 places. It has caused me a lot of pain ever since. I run an average of 16:45 right now, but my goal is to break 16:00 which would give me 70 points in that category. The cardio is there, but the pain slows me down. I think the weight loss will help with that… time to stop being big n trim down. Wish me luck!
November 2, 2008 at 7:14 pm
i know exactly what you are talking about… i’ve got 8 weeks give or take before i get home. at least by new years (cross my fingers)!!! and i’ve already said out loud that i want to run the tokyo marathon in march (eek!!!). i feel like i’m on a mad fitness dash to the finish line. gotta stay motivated!