<p>Can any current mid tell me about how much running you would do in a typical day during plebe summer...do they start off with a lot or build you up???</p>
<p>You really should be able to run three miles in about 24 minutes when you get there, minimum.</p>
<p>really? right now im doing 4 miles in about 27 minutes...do you suggest trying to bring that time down or trying to run longer distances??</p>
<p>If you're doing 4 in 27, you'll be fine for Plebe Year. Adding distance or reducing time will be up to you and your personal goals, but you'll pass all the running exercises that I'm aware of.</p>
<p>Geez..... That's one hell of a pace! Fastest I ever ran the mile was 5:45 (ONCE). Fastest 3 miles was 21 minutes. Fastest 1.5 miles was 10 minutes.</p>
<p>Nowadays, I get winded just typing about running! :D</p>
<p>ETA: If you like running, you'll soon discover the joys of running the outer and inner perimeters. An inner is about 3.X miles. An outer is (IIRC) 5.3 miles. The longest I've ever run non-stop was an outer perimeter, ONCE. You can run these whenever you have the free time during the academic year, and you won't be alone. LOTS of Mids do it.</p>
<p>Sounds like your distance is fine, try concentrating on running 8:15 or sub 8:15 for 1.5 miles. The PRT isn't based on endurance (though I wouldn't call 4 miles endurance), it is based on speed.</p>
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<p>I bloody well would! :D</p>
<p>I think the most you run over the summer is 10k...for us, there was a race (10k) during the last PEP session. </p>
<p>Zap, I can understand 4 miles being distance to you, if you call running from the computer to the fridge and back speed work.</p>
<p>There's a list of the PFA standards and scores. Today was our unit's PFA for this command period. Our CO made a deal with us that anyone who beats him gets to chit out of one battalion event.</p>
<p>He got an Outstanding Medium...I got an Outstanding Low...grr...just 9 more sit-ups and a few more push-ups and I would have had him...</p>
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Zap, I can understand 4 miles being distance to you, if you call running from the computer to the fridge and back speed work.
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<p>I have a two-story house. Going from the computer to the fridge isn't speed work, it's running hills.</p>
<p>Running to the head and back during commercial breaks is speed work! :D</p>
<p>Wether or not 4 miles is speed work is completely based on how fast of a runner you are. I know someone who runs 15:40 5k and for him it definately is. However, I run 18:45, so 4 miles is much more of an endurance run, relatively speaking. I'm not to worried about the physical stuff though, getting out of the hills in alabama and only running on flat Maryland should be a breeze, plus i can do pushups all day, well, almost</p>
<p>lol well bernyb, you physical stud you, you should have no worries then.
and also, those pfa standards look a lot different than the PRT.</p>
<p>Zaphod eagerly rubs his hands together at the thought of berny having Wheelah as one of his upperclassmen..... :D</p>
<p>do you mean the Marine PRT? because they don't do push-ups...they're replaced by the pull-ups.</p>
<p>Or does USNA have different standards than the fleet?</p>
<p>USNA has higher standards than the fleet in the run only, otherwise their standards are lower. I am required to do more situps and pushups to pass being a fleet member than a mid is required to do. However I also don't have to run 10:30. Grant last PRT was 9:34, 117 pushups, and 87 situps. I think that will pass me.</p>
<p>I just started back running today. 1.5 is wearing me out. I need to get back up top easy-ish 10ks. Once I've been doing it for aw hile it's easy to get up and out but re-starting I hate. I never want to get up and put my shoes on and go out.
Is there a lot of running at NASS? And at USNA do they run in the middle of the day usually or when for plebe summer? And what's max on sit-ups?</p>
<p>The only advice I can give when it comes to indurance is you have to start off small to work your way up. Trying to run 6+ miles in one day when you've never run over 2 is only gonna hurt you. Work your way up slowly but efficiently. I know how hard it can be to force yourself out of bed...this last year 6am runs SUCKED, but I found it easier to sleep in my running clothes so I didn'thave a choice but to put on my shoes and go. Even wearing my running clothes to class helped just to get me in the mind set to get out and run after classes. One good motivation would be to thing about all the pain and exahustion you WONT have if you work on it NOW rather than once you get there. Good luck!!!!</p>
<p>Zap, I envy you...I miss the pre-collegiate track days when the couch to fridge sprint was enough hahaha</p>
<p>An suggestions for specific running shoes to bring? It should be almost time to get them so they will be broken in but not compressed.</p>
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but I found it easier to sleep in my running clothes so I didn'thave a choice but to put on my shoes and go.
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<p>I'm gonna have to remember that one.</p>
<p>That, and maybe putting my alarm clock (and the snooze button) in another room. Next door. Behind a minefield.</p>
<p>haha...after sleeping through drill one morning and getting counceled by my Plt. Sgt., I moved my alarm to the opposite side of the room.</p>
<p>Now I've mastered the walk across my room (even when it's cluttered) in my sleep....literally.</p>
<p>Maybe I should use a minefield....</p>
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<p>"Counseled", eh? </p>
<p>Is that what they call it these days? ;)</p>