Wow! I have been neglecting my blog this past month!
So I joined the Hall County Fire Explorers group as of Monday June 11th. It's like a branch of the boy scouts, except it's more centered around training kids to be fire fighters. It's two and a half hours long every Monday night. We learn all the usual first aid, search and rescue, as well as participate in live burns and Extrication practices.
We also PT. A lot. My first day we did a relay that consisted of flipping a tractor tire up and down the parking lot, doing squats with like half of a power pole, and pulling a sled with a fire hose on it. I was the one doing the sled and it is one of the hardest things I have ever done. My muscles were screaming and I was sore for three days after! The group of kids are really great, and are really encouraging. definitely something I need when I'm PT-ing.
On the 18th, we did a practice PT test at the Burn Building. As in the actual PT test people have to complete in order to be eligible to be hired as a firefighter. It consists of rolling and then unrolling a fire hose, taking a ladder off of an elevated height and setting it on the ground three times in a row, knocking a log off an elevated height with a sledgehammer, raising a ladder off the ground and onto the side of the building two times, pulling a hose up to the three story window, carrying a hose up three flights of stairs, pulling a sled with a hose on it, climbing up and down a ladder three times, and finally pulling a 180 pound dummy about 30 feet.
WOW! It was a crazy day. But I did better than even some of the guys (Yes, I am proud of that and will show off a bit) and absolutely love the skinny, athletic, in-shape feeling I get after an insane workout like that.
This is definitely what I need to keep in shape! :)
