Friday, October 30, 2009

Record APFT, 289 points, 30 OCT 09, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas

iThink: Dos Gringos, "Going In For Guns"

WX at 0600: 46 (8) DP 44 (7) BP 29.56 (1001) SSW 20 RH 93

Odometer 2: 54.0mi

Z4 high.
Average/max heart rate = no reading

My first PT test in almost a year. Yes, almost a year.

I was pleasantly surprised at what I did on today's PT test. After the relative lack of physical exercise over the last few months, I didn't expect to max the pushups and situps as cleanly as I did - perhaps this is the long-term benefit of pumping aluminum from time to time. Even the situps weren't that bad.

I realize, looking back at the last few APFTs, that I'm pretty happy if I score above 280. I'd really like to score 290, and almost did (missed it by two seconds this morning) but I'm really not quibbling about scoring 289 when I was afraid I wasn't even going to get 80 points on the run.

My pushups and situps remained their usual, 100 points in each event. I continue to find it curiously ironic that the events on which I spend the least amount of time, I do the best. This has been the case for APFTs since, oh, when I was in college. My norm for the first two events has been 100 points each; I can count maybe one or two times in my career (less my brief stints at Ranger School) where I didn't have 200 points going into the run.

Splits

Pushups: 75 in 0:45
Situps: 80 in 1:38
14:50 2 mile run:
SGMT AGGRG SEGMT PERMI AVGPC DIST
0.25 01:39 01:39 06:36 06:36 0.25
0.25 03:31 01:52 07:28 07:02 0.50
0.25 05:23 01:52 07:28 07:11 0.75
0.25 07:18 01:55 07:40 07:18 1.00
0.25 09:12 01:54 07:36 07:22 1.25
0.50 13:03 03:51 07:42 07:27 1.75
0.25 14:50 01:47 07:08 07:25 2.00

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