Why do I do this?

It is getting close to my unit's APFT once again. For some reason I do not mainain my fitness level throughout the year, instead I wait until the last minute (i.e. - two to three months out) before I begin to work out again. As a result I end up torturing myself. I have been doing some light workouts for the past month or so. Last night I decided to "kick it up a notch". While I was at DS1's soccer practice I decided to utilize the track. What I decided on was the following:

• Stretch lightly to give the muscle groups a 'heads up'
• Wlk 1 lap in a brisk pace to warm up (this track is a little unusual in that it is 1/3 mile long)
• Onlaps 2-10 (3 miles) I would walk 'briskly' around the corners and jog the straight-aways
• The front stretch has two white lines painted across the track, approximately fifty meters apart... sprint (or jog as fast as I can) between these lines
• After each lap perform one set of push up, and one set of sit ups - beginning with nine, and counting down after each lap (i.e. 9 first set, 8 the second, 7 the third, etc.)
• Cool down by walking laps 11 and 12. After each of these another set of push ups and sit ups (10 then 5).
• Stretch to ease the workout

I am still about two months out from the expected test date (maybe nine weeks). I am hopeful to keep this work out up by alternating between the one above and a more gentle one where I do one set of 30 push ups and 30 sit ups, and then jog out 3 miles - to start. Between each workout I will have at least one day of rest, and I know there will be some two day stretches. I will also slowly increase the "load" by adding laps to the distances, and about 10% to the push up and sit up reps. This all sounds very formal, but what I really need to do is make this a daily/weekly routine so that I am not in so much pain when I need to get ready for the APFT. :) Verse for today: 1 Corinthians 9:24-27, ESV Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, [2] lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.