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I am entering the North Saskatchewan Regiment as an officer-cadet through RESO, and my physical fitness test has been scheduled for this Friday. First, some advice for everyone else who is looking to join the CF: If you're like me and you have to play 'the waiting game' with your application for a few months, DON'T relax your physical training. This is bad. I did, and now unexpectedly I'm told I have to do the CF EXPRES test this week and I'm not as prepared as I could have been. I used to run 5-6 times a week, now I've been running 2-3 times a week, and at a far more leisurely pace than the test requires. This could be a problem.
Now, I'm completely confident in my ability to do the rest of the test. I can rattle off 50 pushups and 60 situps relatively easily. I'm not sure about the handgrip test, I have no means of measuring my handgrip strength, but I'm also quite sure that I can do that as well. I have been timing myself over 2.4km, my personal best so far has been 11 minutes 40 seconds, but on average I'm getting it done in 12 minutes. This worries me. I would really hate it if I didn't get to be sworn in because I'm just a few seconds too slow. Not to mention that I'm pretty wiped out after I finish that run. Yeah, I'm really beating myself up for slacking off while I waited for news about my prior application to ROTP.
During my run, I generally feel like I hit several 'walls' at various points throughout the run. Generally these come around 800m, 1500m and 2000m marks. I mean, it isn't serious fatigue, not dangerous to my health, and I don't feel like I'm about to collapse or anything like, say, a marathon runner would encounter when he 'hits the wall'. I just feel like I'm run out of steam. During my runs outside and on the treadmill, I've been stopping for a few seconds to take a drink from my waterbottle and then continue on with a second wind, but obviously I won't have a chance to stop at all during the test. So, what solutions to this problem are available to me by Friday? I'm already planning on having an energy bar before the test. I usually have an energy bar before my rugby games, and it usually helps a lot during that, so I think it might help for this test. Any other suggestions? I really, really don't want to lose my chance just because I'm a bit too slow running.
I am entering the North Saskatchewan Regiment as an officer-cadet through RESO, and my physical fitness test has been scheduled for this Friday. First, some advice for everyone else who is looking to join the CF: If you're like me and you have to play 'the waiting game' with your application for a few months, DON'T relax your physical training. This is bad. I did, and now unexpectedly I'm told I have to do the CF EXPRES test this week and I'm not as prepared as I could have been. I used to run 5-6 times a week, now I've been running 2-3 times a week, and at a far more leisurely pace than the test requires. This could be a problem.
Now, I'm completely confident in my ability to do the rest of the test. I can rattle off 50 pushups and 60 situps relatively easily. I'm not sure about the handgrip test, I have no means of measuring my handgrip strength, but I'm also quite sure that I can do that as well. I have been timing myself over 2.4km, my personal best so far has been 11 minutes 40 seconds, but on average I'm getting it done in 12 minutes. This worries me. I would really hate it if I didn't get to be sworn in because I'm just a few seconds too slow. Not to mention that I'm pretty wiped out after I finish that run. Yeah, I'm really beating myself up for slacking off while I waited for news about my prior application to ROTP.
During my run, I generally feel like I hit several 'walls' at various points throughout the run. Generally these come around 800m, 1500m and 2000m marks. I mean, it isn't serious fatigue, not dangerous to my health, and I don't feel like I'm about to collapse or anything like, say, a marathon runner would encounter when he 'hits the wall'. I just feel like I'm run out of steam. During my runs outside and on the treadmill, I've been stopping for a few seconds to take a drink from my waterbottle and then continue on with a second wind, but obviously I won't have a chance to stop at all during the test. So, what solutions to this problem are available to me by Friday? I'm already planning on having an energy bar before the test. I usually have an energy bar before my rugby games, and it usually helps a lot during that, so I think it might help for this test. Any other suggestions? I really, really don't want to lose my chance just because I'm a bit too slow running.
