Did Not Reach My PT Test Goal

For those of you who don't know, PT is physical training and in the Air Force you have to take and pass a PT test yearly. It is now going to twice yearly but since I am on my way out, that doesn't effect me.

I PT tested on Sunday. My goal was to try so hard I vomited. (Bet you didn't see that coming.) Sadly, I did not meet my goal. Close, but not quite. Even though that is sad news, the good news is I did pass with 83 out of 100 points. Passing is 75 points. Besides the 1.5 mile run you also get points for how many sits-up you can do in a minute and how many push-ups you can do in a minute. I was not proactive and did not practice the sit-ups or push-ups but managed to push out 12 push-ups. Now my chest is quite sore. I know 12 is a very low number for the macho guys (and gals) out there, but for a person with no upper body strength and no practice, I think it is somewhat respectable.

My sit-ups were not very respectable. I need to get a better technique down. I couldn't get a rhythm going and strained on each one. I might have been going down too far. Also, it is a well known fact that the ladies in our family are born without stomach muscles. It is a genetic oddity which has been much studied by leading scientists over the years, but no definite results have ever been discovered, so no papers have been published on the subject.

I did the 1.5 mile run in 14:06 which as I mentioned earlier is much faster than I usually go. I was gasping for breath so loud I was scaring people as I came up behind them. Maybe I sounded like a man eating beast. Or maybe they thought I was going to die and they would have to try CPR.

So I didn't vomit, pass out, or even twist my knee. Kind of boring, but I'll take boring over pain (or death) any day.