Fitness

Sounds like a bleep test..... but 500 odd meters in 40s isn't difficult and certainly shouldn't be difficult for people who are being paid to potentially chase criminals.
 
Russ77 said:
Sounds like a bleep test..... but 500 odd meters in 40s isn't difficult and certainly shouldn't be difficult for people who are being paid to potentially chase criminals.
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I think you meant to say '500 odd metres in 3 min 40 sec isn't difficult...' 500 odd metres in 40 seconds would be quite impressive! :D
 
See the running thread (or was there a separate one for the London Marathon runner who managed a rather impressive time?)!
 
A little bit misleading, because it was a 525 metre run completed as part of a 15 metre shuttle run. I wouldn't like to do a 15 metre shuttle run 35 times.
 
It's a bit of a headline grabbing article really when only 1.9% of the entire 93,956 tests were actually failed.
 
I once got chatting to a couple of cops when out for a walk and one said that walking was difficult enough on a hot day in all their gear and running was hell. I said that they should all be issued with guns so that they didn't need to chase criminals, they could just shoot them instead and besides that a gentleman should never run. One cop laughed but the other looked like he was going to swallow his own face.
 
andy700 said:
A little bit misleading, because it was a 525 metre run completed as part of a 15 metre shuttle run. I wouldn't like to do a 15 metre shuttle run 35 times.
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Neither would I. But it's not a shuttle run - it's a shuttle brisk walk. Covering 525 m in 3.40 is equivalent to 11m 43s for a mile but you get to stop much sooner. You'll lose some time in the turning round at each end but that isn't exactly running.
 
But it fails to say what happens to the ones that do not pass the fitness test. As a Army reservist I have to complete 8miles carrying 25kg not including weapon, body armour, webbing, water.....and has to be done in under 2hrs. If I fail I'm out......
 
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