After searching the forums for advice with no luck, I have decided to make an account to ask a few questions which hopefully you can help me with!
I have applied to join the army (SCOTS DG for those interested) and I have already passed my interview and attended one of the Royal Armored Corps insight courses down in Bovington, during the course we covered the basic fitness requirements, my sit ups and push ups were good enough (52 push ups & 44 sit ups), however when it came to the 1.5 mile, I was pathetic, clocked in at just over 15 minutes which I was extremely annoyed with, of course I failed the requirements to go to selection so they placed me on a PDA in Inverness recently, however i'm going through a bit of financial trouble at the moment and I couldn't attend due to travel costs, I explained to my recruiter on the phone about it, he did understand however if I cancel again why application will be stopped. This puts me in a bit of a crap situation as I have no way to afford the journey and they cannot fund travel to PDA's, I have also been running much more, I got my time down to 12 minutes 30 (it isn't great but it's passable) but as of recently my running time has went up again to roughly 13 minutes 30 due to pain shooting up my legs.
To sum up my question, how am I to attend a PDA with no income and how should I deal with the pain in my legs which has started over the past 3 weeks of my running? I really do want to join as soon as I can but it seems that my goal is getting harder as I go.
Thanks in advance!
I have applied to join the army (SCOTS DG for those interested) and I have already passed my interview and attended one of the Royal Armored Corps insight courses down in Bovington, during the course we covered the basic fitness requirements, my sit ups and push ups were good enough (52 push ups & 44 sit ups), however when it came to the 1.5 mile, I was pathetic, clocked in at just over 15 minutes which I was extremely annoyed with, of course I failed the requirements to go to selection so they placed me on a PDA in Inverness recently, however i'm going through a bit of financial trouble at the moment and I couldn't attend due to travel costs, I explained to my recruiter on the phone about it, he did understand however if I cancel again why application will be stopped. This puts me in a bit of a crap situation as I have no way to afford the journey and they cannot fund travel to PDA's, I have also been running much more, I got my time down to 12 minutes 30 (it isn't great but it's passable) but as of recently my running time has went up again to roughly 13 minutes 30 due to pain shooting up my legs.
To sum up my question, how am I to attend a PDA with no income and how should I deal with the pain in my legs which has started over the past 3 weeks of my running? I really do want to join as soon as I can but it seems that my goal is getting harder as I go.
Thanks in advance!