Long Day.

It's been a long day. It started off with instructional physical training, they walked us through a series of exercises that we will do every morning before we start running. Most of our runs will be quite long from the looks of it. All 3-7 miles, but some of the groups will be quite slow.

We finished the first obstacle course without any major injuries, everyone has new bruises and one candidate got a sprained ankle but should recover soon. I was able to complete all the obstacles on the first try except for the last one where you have to jump off a platform and grab a rope about 4 feet out then climb up (there is more but that is the only hard part). I just couldn't manage to pull my legs up and over at the end. I didn't get a second attempt since we were running short on time and there were many other teams that hadn't tried that one yet. Our team did quite well on all the team oriented ones, and everyone had a great attitude throughout the whole thing. There was a Major and a Command Sgt. Major out there that were just running though the stuff, that was quite impressive for a couple of guys in their early 50's.

Since we had so many people give blood to the Red Cross today we are not doing anything until 7:00am tomorrow so it will be nice to sleep in and not have to get up until 6 or so.

There's a lot that goes on during the day, but only the big stuff seems to stand out now.