Day 10: Back at Bootcamp

It was great resuming my Bootcamp training after missing Day 8 and Day 9 last week. The weather was excellent today – but the field continues to be wet and muddy....very tough for us as our shoes get stuck in the mud and it really slows us down and also takes a lot more of our energy to keep moving.

After the usual warm up, we had to do our “now” customary grunts – i just don’t understand why some team members are still not “team players!”. 7 AWOL team members so 70 torturous grunts.

Today we have 2 circuits so the team were divided into 2 groups randomly.
My group started the “race competition circuit” where the group was divided into 2 teams and we had to compete against each other with the losing team rewarded with 30 grunts! So lots of incentives to do well here.

This race is a weight and running competition. Each team stayed on opposite end of a 40 meter track. And we each had a “sand pipe rifle” that we have previously used. We were then asked to place our “rifles” into a square zone called our “Store”. The objective of this competition is that both teams will have equal amount of “Rifles” in each store – we are then suppose to run to each other’s store and one person can pick up only one rifle from the opposite team’s “store” and run back to our own “store” and put in back in our “Store”. The opposite team will do the same.

While we started with equal rifles on each side, over time of the competition as we run to each other’s store – one team will start to lead as one store will have more rifles then the other. Thankfully, our team started well and we continue to gain a huge lead and by half way, our team were getting more than half their rifles from their store before they could take from our side....a runaway win and when the competition ended, we won hands down! HOOYAH!

We were happy watching the other team suffer the agony of grunts...and in our complacency, we started drinking our water while watching the team....another rule of Bootcamp is that we can only have water breaks when instructed by the Sgt....we must be too happy, we totally forgot (including me) so got caught and from winners....we ended up having to do 15 grunts as punishment for disobeying the “drinks rule”!

After completing our punishment – we moved to the other circuit which involved using the big BAD lorry tyres again! This circuit was not a competition but collective workout. Our team was divided into 3 teams (as there were 3 lorry tyres) and half had to go across to the other end of the track of 20 meters.

Here, we had to do 6 minutes of individual flipping of the tyre from one end by a team member to the other end and another team member takes it back. While 3 members do the flipping, the rest of the team had to stand in line and worked on 5 reps of push ups, squats, Jumping jacks and King Kong push ups – non-stop! Any stoppages meant the Sgt added 30 seconds – we had an extra 2 minutes of punishment. This was tough as the tyres were really heavy....took all our energy to get it across.

Once we completed the 8 minutes – 4 members must then carry on our shoulders these giant tyres and brisk run for 60 meters and back! My team had 2 girls and 2 guys so we guys took opposite ends and the ladies took the front and back...and slowly, we made the round!

It was a tough end to Day 10 – after a well stretched warm down...Day 10 ended with 2 more days to go.....HOOYAH!

Tomorrow weigh in again at lunch time....