Fit as a butcher's dog?

**dutchman** · 19-12-2006, 17:19

never finished in the top ten , i did enough to pass , maybe im a realist but i would never outrun a bullet , if the s*** hit the fan adrenaline would do me and outright fear is a great motivator as for now i work bloody hard welding tons of steel that i have to hump and believe me no gimpy or 84 is as heavy as for running only if the mrs is chasing but as dai hood says i'm kinky (that don't mean sheep hoody before you say it , i would never queer your pitch)

**jcj** · 06-01-2007, 23:00

I was probably at my fittest when I did my Plt Sgts course at Brecon (SCBC) 1975, and as a Pl Sgt in Berlin 75-77 also at RMA Sandhurst 77-79.One of the fittest guys I knew was Nick Ravenhill, he could be on the **** ALL NIGHT and then with no kip go jogging to run it off. He is an animal. I still excercise 3-4 times a week , we are lucky to have a very good gym in the AFCO and I jog in Bute park, but it is getting harder as time catches up.

eightyseven · 07-01-2007, 13:24

The fittest bloke i know of was my old man!!! SSI in the Army Physical Training Corps, seriously fit. Before i joined up in 1987, he had me running with logs on my back in the sand banks of the River Dee to build me up as i was a tad too skinny at the time!!, hard bloody work but the physical training paid off. The BFTs & ICFTs were easy in comparison to what he had me doing!!!. As he always said the first mile is in your head.....the rest of the way is easy!!!. My section commander in Shorncliffe when i was in Juniors was Brian Bloor, a fit lad & a good soldier, Dai Williams 72 was SC in the same platoon. There was only five of us RWF lads in the platoon so on runs we had to do well!!! Good Days.

**ap1** · 07-01-2007, 13:41

Originally Posted by jcj

I was probably at my fittest when I did my Plt Sgts course at Brecon (SCBC) 1975, and as a Pl Sgt in Berlin 75-77 also at RMA Sandhurst 77-79.One of the fittest guys I knew was Nick Ravenhill, he could be on the **** ALL NIGHT and then with no kip go jogging to run it off. He is an animal. I still excercise 3-4 times a week , we are lucky to have a very good gym in the AFCO and I jog in Bute park, but it is getting harder as time catches up.

When Nick was RSM, he would keep us in the Sgts Mess all night, we discovered that when he was struggling, the Mess Barman was under his strict instructions, to slip him the odd soft drink, disguised as his drink of choice. He would then proceed to destroy us.

4 hours later, you would be summoned to his office, at 0800 to "Throw the dice" for some misdemeanour, that you thought had not been spotted(flares not wide enough, shirt top button open, white socks!! not singing loud enough during his rendition of Ringo!!).

He was competetive at everything he did, be it Battalion Run or happy hour

It was great time to be promoted, and learn the ways of the mess, it was an education.

**Barry69** · 07-01-2007, 22:13

Yes Al it was a excellent time in Berlin, Nick joined our darts team in the mess, and the darts playing was only part at every venue we would have to put away a few bottles of port with Nick and more and the playing of darts was the easy part if you went on early as later you where half p....ed by then such "Happy days" and if you where BOS the next day well tuff because Nick would be there bright and early, and he woud just give that look to say are good you made it!

The Funny thing is we won the drinking and done quite well in the Darts Too

The Team was - Gwyn Nick, Gags 49,Martin Hargreaves"cost 20 mil for one them now? Mouse Adams,John Davies, Yoko, Nick, Me and a Chef who name excapes me Roy I think ?I dont think I missed anyone?

The hardest thing I ever had to do was to tell Nick and his Jim Pyke's, that he wasnt playing as he lost the week previous! and I lived to tell the story.

Yer Darting in Berlin was somthing else, we had a night where you all would name a drink and then after you all had to down it in one, not a problem but Gwyn close a pint of Black Stuff - oh yer happy days.

richie264 · 07-01-2007, 22:38

Will Pamph, he was a RRW Cpl who was with us in Lemgo, He was one of the instructors on the Section Commanders course that the Bn ran in Lemgo,he never did anything without his Bergen on & it weighed a ton, he could push out one arm & one finger push ups all day, We'd do runs every morning before breakfast, we requested a change of routine, so we played football on the square with full kit on Bergen's & all " AFTER WE'D COMPLETED THE RUN"
Den Morris I believe was the fittest student on the course, I found the course harder than my Brecon.

**rikoshea** · 08-01-2007, 12:14

Well I must admit I was fit has a boy soldier in Crickhowell, But them Mo Ullah trained HQ company boxing team in Ternhill then i was fit. but since then I gave up smoking in 2000 and have run the LONDON & CARDIFF Marathons in 2002 and run 5 consecutive Great North Runs this year will be my 6th. because i wanted to be fitter at 40 than i was at 30. could even walk to the shop because of the smoking. still not has fit as when Mo had hold of me though.

**CARL PUGH** · 08-01-2007, 20:49

Well a lot of the older ones wont believe this, but the fittest i have ever been was when Nick Ravenhill took over as the MTO in Tidworth. After a tour of Northern Ireland with the MT PL i lost nearly 5 stone in weight after a chat with Nick. On return from Ireland, and the second day back from leave was a HQ Coy BFT i which i came 2nd out of 120 approx men, completing the BFT in 7min 54sec. The only man ahead was The RSO Capt (cannot remember), the Bn cross country champ. From there i went on to run with Paul Gwilym, Chris Jones 23, Dai Vast, and many more of the elite runner of the Bn. But sad to say this all come to an end after a few years after shoulder charging a concrete bollard. Another story. They were the days.