Tree to the Knee

As promised, I started writing this immediately after my previous post. It took me a minute to remember what I was supposed to write about.

Almost exactly one month ago (did you see what I did there?) I had a go at the demo for the tryouts for the Estonian SpecOps group. It was supposed to be 30 hours of gruelling, almost action packed, unadulterated fun. And pain, sweat and a touch of lack-of-sleep. Simply put, fun for the whole family. Oh, and it took place over the weekend, meaning I couldn't go home. She LOVED that part (not).
Here's what was planned, pretty much in the same order we did them:
- Half an hour of morning exercise. A tenth if us almost died here.
- SpecOps general physical test, which entailed push-ups, pull-ups, leg-ups, sit-ups, push-ups on parallel bars, climbing up a rope, bell-bar reps with a large percentage of one's body weight, and a 10km run to finish. We all almost died.
- Three hours' orienteering. We all got lost and I took a tree to my knee, or something. I was out for the count after this one.
- 300 word essay writing. Or was it 200?
- A quick intro to SpecOps.
- A boat rally. Where they (see what I did here?) took an inflated boat and..... ran up and down and everywhere else, making sure the boat didn't touch the ground or vegetation.
- Crawling for two hours.
- Counting. To 500. With push-ups every time someone gets confused. Did I mention the time? Around 3 a.m.
- Song memorization. With something unpleasant with every failed attempt.
- Sliding down a rope. And trying in vain not to slam into the brick walls all around.... at least not TOO hard....
- And a nice long trek to finish.

'Nuff said.