Thursday, June 05, 2008

Presidential Physical Fitness Test (a.k.a. torture for anyone willing to attend... lol)

Hi girls,

So let me give you an update of my major excercising day. On Monday, my family went to a park to have a Presidential Physical Fitness Test (long name huh?) and I was kinda nervous when we first got there because I had never done anything like it before. Well I was happy to see that my friend Olivia (you can see her blog at www.liviemylifeasagirl.blogspot.com ) was attending too. We got our fill in charts and started with a 1 mile run! My requirment was to run the whole mile in less than 6 minutes! Well at the half mile point (when I was still running) I got this horrible cramp on my right side and I felt like falling over dead (may you know I have NEVER tried to run a mile before and I didn't really prepare for this) so my friend Olivia had the same happen to her at the same time too! At the half mile mark, four minutes had already passed and with the cramp I knew I wouldn't make it in two minutes so Olivia and I just walked the rest of the way and ran at the very end. Well, that was the worst part, the rest was rather easy. After the run, we had to do a V-sit to see how far we can stretch out our arms without bending our knees. I reached 37 inches which was above the 50 percentile. Then we had the Shuttle Run and my time was EXACTLY the same as Olivia's! We both did it in 10.83 seconds! Then we did Sit-ups and I did 21 in a minute which wasn't enough to reach the 85 percentile. After that was push-ups which were painful but I kicked out 23 (i wasn't keeping my back perfectly straight though). I did the Flexed Arm Hang which I held on for 26.7 seconds! So I got two tests above 85 percentile, three above 50 percentile and two sadly were below... oh well, it was LOTS of fun (except the running).

TTYL,
SocialButterfly

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