IOCT...
The Indoor Obstacle Course Test is coming up...
It's held in Haye's Gym, a relic of the early 20th century...a building made of brick, stone and wood. The air that MacArthur breathed when he was here still hangs in the air and the words to the Corps "They are here in ghostly assemblage/
The men of the corps long dead" is literal...although, their "ghostly assemblage" is nothing less than two hundred years of human decay floating in the air. When you run the obstacles, you breathe it all in and it settles on your lungs like a layer of silt...imagine, if you will, sprinting about half a mile while trying to breathe through a pinched straw in a sandstorm and that's about what it feels like.
I slipped off one obstacle today and swung my body into an iron post hitting my shin. It broke the skin just a little, but I'm fairly convinced that if I weren't so super-human, my bone would have broken...OK, slight overstatement, but still...it hurt like a bitch. I got it on film, actually, and I'll try and post it another time. It doesn't look all that impressive as I wasn't running it for time and was going kind of slowly...but still...it sucks, and if you're not a cadet, you should be both impressed and pity me.
It's held in Haye's Gym, a relic of the early 20th century...a building made of brick, stone and wood. The air that MacArthur breathed when he was here still hangs in the air and the words to the Corps "They are here in ghostly assemblage/
The men of the corps long dead" is literal...although, their "ghostly assemblage" is nothing less than two hundred years of human decay floating in the air. When you run the obstacles, you breathe it all in and it settles on your lungs like a layer of silt...imagine, if you will, sprinting about half a mile while trying to breathe through a pinched straw in a sandstorm and that's about what it feels like.
I slipped off one obstacle today and swung my body into an iron post hitting my shin. It broke the skin just a little, but I'm fairly convinced that if I weren't so super-human, my bone would have broken...OK, slight overstatement, but still...it hurt like a bitch. I got it on film, actually, and I'll try and post it another time. It doesn't look all that impressive as I wasn't running it for time and was going kind of slowly...but still...it sucks, and if you're not a cadet, you should be both impressed and pity me.
posted by Adam at 8:02 PM
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