The alarm clock goes off at 6:15 by my roommates bed, it is way too early to be getting up. My body lays there dead in what I use to call and extremely uncomfortable mattress which now seems like a bed of feathers not letting get up. The pain of waking up and crawling down those stairs from my loft is worsening by what I know is to come. A quick cool shower awakens my senses and brings chills down my spine. My body yearns for a nice big breakfast but I know that would not be to wise. A quick apple cinnamon nuturgain bar is all I eat. I put on my white Nike gym shorts and grab a white undershirt. My shoes are then slipped on without care left untied and coming on and off as I walk. The eight other freshman baseball players and I take the elevator down to the main floor. The sun has just started to rise by the time we are out and the cool mourning air gives us chills, we are all silent.
We join the other 20 or some players in the gym, sitting on the old bleachers. As a group we look like cattle ready for the slaughter. All of us freshman have heard the stories and now we can not believe it is actually going to happen to us. They gave us tips on how to survive and what under no surcomstance what should never cross our
We start our normal stretches and are ready to go by 7:00. There is no good mornings here the first words out of his mouth is "Those stretches are terrible, that's not what I taught you". We have not even started yet. The slowest hour of my life just began. This is not like basic military training; this is want an enemy would do to some to make them talk.
We start by running hard sprints; this only takes up three minutes though. Then we are only the ground doing sit-ups non-stop. This are not normally sit-ups, you have to bring your elbows past your knees on alternating sides keeps your hands on the back of your head. It's only two minutes in and I can no longer bring my elbows past my knees. The sweat is building and I'm losing my breath with everyone. Then the sergeant barks, "If your hurting now, your in big trouble". Then about every 15 seconds for the next couple of minutes he yells, "all the way up, don't you ever stop moving". Then we stop for about half a second before we start the next exercise, which is to keep are feet straight out two inches off the ground with out back on the ground. Then we move them up two more inches again and again every thirty seconds until the are straight up. We reset and do it again at least five times, if you have never done this it is impossible to do even once for anyone who is not buil
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