Prepatory Physical Training (PT).

For those who don't know the officer classes are chronically overbooked. To earn a seat you have to beat out the other potential candidates in a PT test. For instance they might have 150 seats and 250 people competing for them. To secure your seat you have to be in the top 150. As long as you meet the minimum ARMY standard you will not be sent home, but you get to spend more time in headquarters which is not to be desired as the moral there is often low and it will throw off your graduation date by weeks.

I've been running and hitting the gym pretty hard but last week pulled a calf muscle in the cold weather. So I've been trying a different program, it's all sit-ups and push-ups and I gotta say I can see the results. It has helped my form and speed in both of the events in addition to adding 6 push-ups and 10 sit-ups to my total after one week. This next week is even more intense and I won't be able to finish it before I ship but I can at least get well into the program.

Here is where I got the workout from: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/jsaria/Hit-the-Deck.xls

I will be strapping on my gps and hrm on Monday and giving myself an assessment on the run and see how I stand. The Garmin 305 is the best running training aid I have ever gotten. I use http://www.zonefivesoftware.com/SportTracks/ as it is much better than the included software.

My main objective now is to be ready to go but not aggravate the pulled calf muscle.