This morning I took the first APFT (Army Physical Fitness Test) since I returned home. I thought I was slipping a little bit lately, but I got the best score in my life: 297!!!
I was two pushups short of scoring the max of 300. Maybe next time!!!
I had a little help from the calendar because age 57-61 is the second to last scoring category. I had to do 53 pushups and 64 situps to max. I did 66 situps in just over a minute 40 seconds, so that was fine, but 51 was all the pushups I could do in two minutes.
To max the run, I would have to do two miles in 15:13, except over age 55 you can either run and be scored the usual way, walk 2.5 miles or ride a bike 6.2 miles (10k) in 28 minutes. I rode the bike. The bike has to be single speed or have its gears locked. I have a single speed, so I rode the required distance in just under 20 minutes.
When you do the bike or the walk, the event is pass-fail and scoring is the average of the other two events. I got 100 points for the situps, 98 for the pushups, and 99 for the bike--297 total.
Great day for me!!
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I'm so very proud of you that I feel like eating potato chips, washing 'em down with Diet Coke and then taking a nap. Clearly, you have the physical fitness thing covered for yourself and all your friends.
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the chin ups?
ReplyDeleteBoaB--Chin ups are on the Marines fitness test and the Army Ranger fitness requirements.
ReplyDeleteMG--Right, and you right enough books that I can be an author--good trade!!!
That's something an old guy like you should be proud of.
ReplyDeleteI'm proud of not taking a PT test since I was in Baghdad in 2005. I find them really annoying. If I was the oldets dude in my unit (A REGULAR Army unit) and I could out hump and out shoot anybody...then why should I have to take a silly PT test?