Whats the chip trail at API?! Also, anyone know the longest distances you run at OCS? I've been having some arch pain that Ive ignored because I thought it would just go away. I can handle it ... but I'm guessing OCS is relentless on running, you run and run some more, and then some more, and more....
This is pretty much posted elsewhere, but:
You start out OCS running a total of around 2-2.25 miles -- a short formation run, followed by stretching, then a warmup lap, then the 1.5 mile run, then a cooldown lap around the PT field. You do this on Mon/Wed/Fri and sometimes Sat. You even do all this warmup stuff on the in-PFA day, so that's why I tell anyone training for OCS to train for 2 miles, not 1.5.
After around week 4 or so, the 1.5 mile runs become 2.2 mile runs, so throw in all the warmup stuff and you're running close to 2.75-3. Again, same schedule as above. That happened twice while I was there, but I missed both due to watch.
On some rare occassions, you will do a 3.2 mile run on Saturdays. They'll start out telling you that it's "at your own pace," and then the DIs and whatnot will start "motivating" you.
The 1.5 mile run is on a shitty road with lots of potholes, but it's relatively flat. The 2.2 mile run starts on the same shitty road, then goes onto others with hills but less cracks and potholes.
Oftentimes whoever is leading the run will stop you to give you some extra exercise, so it's not always running the full distance straight through. Other times they'll do stuff like wind sprints or indian runs. Sometimes they'll stop to make you sprint up and down a hill a few times.
Tuesday/Thursday and sometimes Saturday are strength and conditioning days. You still do the short formation run, but any further running you do on those mornings is usually sprints. You're more likely to be doing shitty stuff like buddy bear crawls, fireman's carry, star jumpers, etc. on these days. As training moves on, you're going to miss a lot of these days for stuff like graduation ceremony practice and other random things that come up.
This doesn't include the fact that sometimes you're going to have to sprint from A-B throughout the day when someone tells you to do something, but that's only a few yards.
