It's PFT time! It's my last one as an active duty Marine, unless I change my mind about reenlisting. I'll put up my results when I'm done.

UPDATE: It's been raining all week, which is good for runs but terrible for pull-ups (the bar gets slick and wet.) Today it was clear and dry, surprising us all.

Since it was only our shop running, there were only five of us going out for score, plus our Gunny to adjudicate. We'd agreed last night to do the pull-ups indoors where it would be nice and dry. But we met at the Semper Fit Gym, the "new gym". We normally go to the McCutchenson Gym to work out. McCutchenson has some nice indoor pull-up bars, but the (only) bar in Semper Fit was terrible. It was way too close to the wall, so I kept banging into the wall while doing my pulls. That cost me at least one and maybe two pulls... and I needed those pulls, as you'll see below. Gunny offered to let me try again outside, which is kind of stretching the rules on a PFT, but I didn't try again as I knew it'd be pointless. I'm old and have a recovery time on max-effort stuff like PFT pull-ups; it'll be at least four hours until my arms are strong enough again to get ten pulls. And we had to get to work.

My Results/Best Possible/(points):

• Pull-ups: 8/20/(40 points)
• Crunches: 100/100 points)
• Three-mile run: 26:16/18:00/(50 points)

That's a total score of 190. A first-class score for my age group is 200. I really wanted that first-class, it'd be the first time since MOS school. Two more pull-ups would have got me those ten points.

Ah well, no use crying. One of our guys missed the PFT today, so he'll have to do his on the boat, which sucks bad. If I can I'll do another PFT with him, partly to support him, partly to see if I can better my score. Even tying it would count as a triumph though, as PFTs on the boat suck. Lap after lap after lap on the pitching flight deck...

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