PT Test

We had a PT test on Friday, I got 249 points. This is lower than my PT score in Iraq, but it is higher than the battery average which is around 230. I could have gotten a higher score. I always max my sit ups. Once I get to 80, I stop even though I can do more, because 80 has always been 100 points which is the most points that I can get in one event. What I didn't realize was that now that I am in a new age group my new max for sit ups is 83. Now I am mad that I stopped at 80. I usually look at the PT score chart before the test but I didn't get around to it this time. I got 50 push ups. I think I would have gotten around 65 if I had a better grader. For the push ups to count by Army regulation, you have to go down until your arms are parallel to the ground. They read this regulation off every time before the PT test. Despite this fact, there are still people that think that your chest has to go all the way down. I wish they would listen to the regulations before they did the grading. I don't think he even was looking at my arms. He didn't count some of my push ups, also going down farther means doing less push ups. The key to a good push up score is to go down only as far as you are required to and to do them as fast as you can so that you can get a lot of push ups before the tiredness sets in. As for the run, I could have done better in that as well. I got 15:10 in the two mile run. I didn't do my best because I didn't really care this time how fast I went as long as I passed, also I did not want to throw up which is my tradition for PT tests. I threw up anyway. This was because this guy yelled that the time was at 15:40 and then I got concerned that I wasn't going to pass, so I sped up at the end.

Other than that PT test this week has been filled with a whole lot of nothing. My good friend Elroy has now left the Army and went back to Texas. He's going to be in the Border Patrol and the National Guard. Now it will take more effort to fill up my free time.