Are you sure about the wearing of contact lenses?

A mate of my Dad's did it and used to move a treadmill into the sauna of his local gym every Sunday, to get used to the heat and water loss. That might be a good idea, along with running with weight on your back.

How much distance running have you actually done before? You will be averaging a ...

1:42 is a good time if it's your first ever competitive half marathon. I'm running a 16 miler in Kingston this weekend and got my race number in the post a few days ago- it's 666. A bad sign if i ever saw one!

OK, apologies, should have done a search before posting. Seems like this has been covered already (in great length) on previous threads.

Has anyone else read this book? Someone bought me a copy on Saturday and I was pretty shocked at some of the stuff that goes on, especially the beatings of new recruits. Some of it was quite funny though (laughed myself silly at the description of what a grand slam is). Just how realistic is this ...

Beardo, how did your times/scores compare with everyone else in your group? Good job on getting through it as well

Indeed it is

I definitely recommend you all apply for RM if you have the chance. Otherwise you mind find yourself stuck at your desk doing a shit job at 1am wondering why you never got round to doing it...........

As well as drinking as much water as possible it might be worth checking your diet. Dizziness like you described can be due to having an iron deficiency (iron comes from, among other things, red meat). I would imagine that the food you are getting is such that it meets the needs of any recruit, but ...

Thanks a lot for the help 42

Daveb mate I'm in the same position as you- just turned 25 and thinking of a serious career change. Have you done your PRMC yet?

Thanks a lot everyone for all the positive replies- wish i'd found out about this forum before!

Was thinking of RMR or RGJ (they are the closest to me I think). Just need to keep the fitness up and shake off a few injuries. Living in Central London and being forced to run on concrete everyday seems ...

42 wrote:you can join having had laser eye surgery

42 are you sure about this? I'm debating about whether or not to have it done. wOuld be interested to know what your experience of this is.

Do you know when in April? Would be keen but I'm not sure if it will leave me enough time to shake of a knee injury

Thanks, that's what I was looking to hear- basically it doesn't matter who you are, if you are lazy or a bit of a w*nker you get stick (fair enough).