Raider's Team: A Heck of a First Blog

Well, the first thing has to be that I have no idea why I am posting this blog. It could be that I had my very first Raider's Team practice today. Yeah, great huh? Raider's Team is a team for JROTC in which member participate in various strenuous physical activities such as push ups (the real ones), sit ups (the real ones), running (if only I weren't fat), rope bridge (which is totally great), and various other activities.

As I said, today was my first practice. I do not do physical things. Needless to say, this was very hard for me. I did 22 push ups, which I totally did not expect. I seriously expected to do only like 1, but no sir, 22 big ones. And the sit ups... when I tell you how many sit ups I did you will probably laugh. But look, these were not just the regular sit ups where you cross your arms over your chest and sit up. Those are easy. The ones I'm talking about are the ones with your fingers interlaced behind your head and sit up. Those are not easy.

So after sit ups and push ups, we ran. We were all technically supposed to run two miles, but I was dead after one. I can't complain though; before that, I had never finished one mile. I get up to speed. But I was dead after that, so I wasn't able to do my favorite part: the rope bridge. I had to sit down and try to get my heart to start beating again. But I was okay. I am really hoping to improve during next practice. All in all, I'm relatively proud of myself for not dying out there.