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Finding it hard to compete with the rigorous ICE recruitment standards?
by vermilingua 7mo ago
Finding it hard to compete with the rigorous ICE recruitment standards?
- rdtsc 7mo agoWhat would this have to do with ICE? Isn’t that DHS?
- ricksunny 7mo agoSame recruitment pool (like same "hiring pool" / market segment). Therefore, competing.
- kay_o 7mo agoI think it is a joke of there is no requirement's ..
- snowchaser 7mo agoI think they mean (sarcastically) that ICE is sucking up all the qualified candidates.
- tjpnz 7mo ago>Run: 1.5-mile run in 14 minutes 25 seconds or less Hilarious.
- _345 7mo agoThat's about a 8:30 mile scaling for the fact that its harder when you have to cover more distance... seems pretty reasonable to me as a fitness baseline for the army. I would struggle to make that now but if I had one month to prep I could clear that
- loeg 7mo agoAm I crazy? Isn't it 9:40 pace?
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- whatever1 7mo agoI don’t think someone completely untrained can do 10’ / mile.
- loeg 7mo agoDepends on what you mean by untrained. I think most men who exercise regularly and don't carry a ton of extra bodyweight, even with zero running, could bang out 1.5 miles at 9:40 pace. Couch potatoes, no.
- ofrzeta 7mo ago"most men who exercise regularly and don't carry a ton of extra bodyweight, even with zero running" - what's that supposed to mean? How do they exercise then when they are not running? I don't think many people who don't exercise running can do 1.5 miles in 9:40.
- sampullman 7mo agoIt's 1.5 miles in 14:25, I think most people can handle that. There are plenty of ways to exercise that aren't plain running. Biking, skating, swimming, Tai chi...
- loeg 7mo ago> what's that supposed to mean? How do they exercise then when they are not running? Any other sport? Cycling, swimming, rowing, ball sports, team sports, weightlifting, ... > I don't think many people who don't exercise running can do 1.5 miles in 9:40. It's 1.5 miles at 9:40 mile pace; 14.5 minutes total. Much easier than 6:30 pace (what you're imagining).
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- scubadude 7mo agoA 29 minute 5K is not trivial
- tjpnz 7mo agoYou're only running half of that.
- somenameforme 7mo agoI'm not sure if you're saying this as somebody who never runs, or somebody who runs so often that you've forgotten baseline levels. That's a very significant hurdle for most people. I'm in very good shape strength wise, but I'd almost certainly need to do some significant training to meet that since I just never run.
- tjpnz 7mo agoI run for weight loss and general health and at one point had a BMI in the mid-thirties. Back then I was able to make that pace for sessions of 30-40 minutes on most days. I'm not suggesting it's easy, but I would expect someone in ICE to easily outrun an obese person.
- esseph 7mo agoGenetics play into this far more than we used to realize. It depends on things like how good your body is at in taking and utilizing oxygen, the specific composition of fast twitch vs slow twitch muscle fibers you have, your body's ability to control and regulate lactic acid, etc. I used to work around some very "high level" athletes. There is definitely a body type that is pretty BMI heavy that can run for days seemingly. They often struggle with sprints or H.I.I.T. type workouts, as a downside.
- reducesuffering 7mo agoJogging for 14 mins at a 10min/mile pace is so far out from any high level athletics or excuse for genetics impacting it. Being unable to do this is being completely out of shape. At run clubs, I see practically every novice join and do 3 miles / 30 mins at 10min/mile pace on their very first day or within 2-3 attempts.
- esseph 7mo ago> Being unable to do this is being completely out of shape. Really not advocating for the time. It's quite slow compared to most US military standards. I'm simply talking about my love of visual "fatbodies" that sometimes have 5x the running cardio of a, say, 5'8" 150lb male that looks like they could run circles around the heavier individual.