July 15, 2004

• I don’t understand some people.  You try to help out and be a friend but instead they think you’re badgering them and you end up making them pissed off and hurting them worse.  I told Elisa time and time again she needed to practice her run so she’d be able to pass her pt test and all she did was blow off.  Well pt test day came and she failed her run by 1min 16sec.  She blames it on the traffic she encountered and a formation that cut her off, but there is no such thing as an excuse for failing a pt test.  If there was then a lot of soldiers would fail and carry on without any consquences and there would be no need for a pt test since it would be so easy to get out of.  Pt is a very important part of the army and not passing isn’t a choice.  Elisa is just weak minded and won’t listen to any advice.  Several times I offered her to come run with me and her excuse was I run too fast for her.  Okay, 2min is a lot, but I wouldn’t have pushed her, I’d just tell her to run 3 miles and call it a session.  She keeps her mind fixated on her miniums and crys when she doesn’t past. 

  Now she’s upset she’s on remedial pt, but she needs it.  Now she’s forced to do it and she complains daily her struggles during a regular pt session because she’s tired.  Good night, she doesn’t even push herself at remedial pt.  Everything is an excuse with her and it’s nerve racking. 

  Yes at one time in my life I was an apft failure for push-ups during AIT.  Yes, I hated remedial pt but had to do it.  I pushed myself day and night until I passed those suckers, and now I can almost max my worst event.  Sit-ups were always my best event and I can almost max those.  I was just about at my run max until coming to FT Carson and having to adjust to the air.  Still I practiced to get my run back and when I was just about to hit 16′s again I got hurt and bad.  Everytime my profile was up I pushed myself on recovery and got hurt worst and continued this cycle three more times until my favorite Sfc, Sfc Peters told me that if I continued to not allow myself the time needed to heal, I’d never heal.  So, I had to do something I hate doing, baby myself.  It was this point in time Elisa came to the company and she just thought I was like her, a not so good runner.

  Appearances can be decieving.  I recovered and she is now marked the slowest runner in our plt.  She hates the fact that I’m faster than her, but I look at her on the runs and see me in a different time, struggling to keep up, crying out in pain (mine was real, I had achilles tendonities), and just wanting to finish a run with the plt or wanting to finish without the plt turning around for me.  Elisa’s running ability is all in her head. 

  Today we ran up NBC hill and she began slacking off and crying like usual, this time it’s her ankle.  The plt holds no sympathy for her.  Especially me my parents didn’t hold my hand when every little thing went wrong in my life and I refuse to do the same for anybody else, with an exception for children.  I tell Elisa each time she whines to me, she will not get any sympathy from me, and she still continues to whine to me.  I get so tired of her that I could just scream at her.  Anyway she fell out of the run and we were going slower than a 9min mile.  I could’ve walked and still kept up.  This why I hate formation runs.  We were all about ready to kill Elisa because we had to turn around and run extra distance over her inability to keep up with the pace she set!!!

  Tomorrow we’re running NBC hill again, and it’s just going to be a repeat performance from today.

  To those of you wanting to join the army and those already in, for goodness sake if you really believe you’re hurt GO TO SICKCALL AND QUIT HINDERING THE PEOPLE WHO CAN RUN, WE’RE SICK AND TIRED OF TURNING AROUND OVER YOU!!!  Don’t take this personally, I’m just highly pissed off about Elisa’s crap already.  I’m just glad I’m not her nco, because I couldn’t put up with being blamed for her pt performance.

  God bless and take care,

  Jen

   

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