I am a manly man.

So yeah, this weekend I was hanging out with my Medieval society, and it just happens that a few of the senior members who were quite close to their knighthoods were going for a pass on their combat fitness exam that night (Saturday). The exam consists of briskly striding three and a half miles to uni and three and a half miles back from the CDS's (Chivalric Dream Society) headquarters while wearing a backpack weighing roughly 35 kilos (More than half my weight), this has to be completed within ninety minutes with only one rest stop (The university gate). The reason this has to be completed before people move on to full steel armour is because the instructors have to be very certain that the combatant has the strength and stamina required to actually fight in 25 kilos of plate. If you fall down to the floor while wearing plate because of medical reasons, you ain't getting back up again.

So there we were at midnight, cheering the five manly men and the one womanly woman back into the headquarters when the venerable leader of our most ancient society (Est. 2007) has a marvelous idea.

'Hey guys, since we're all here why don't you newbs go out and see if we can pass you all tomorrow morning'

-_- This was not good news.

So I found myself being woken up after three hours sleep, by a mad wee blonde Scotsman who likes his double axes a little too much, at half seven to be told it was time to set out. It wasn't actually that bad really, I never ran out of energy and I never felt unsure on my feet, but by God my shoulders ached like buggery five minutes in and I couldn't inhale too deeply as I could feel the acid. the only major concern I had was near the halfway point where I adjusted my strap beneath my arm wrong which totally cut off blood flow to my head and redirected it all to my arm, I only noticed because I tried to change the track on my MP4 player and OH MY GOD MY ARM DOESN'T WORK ANY MORE WOOOO DIZZZZZY....

So long story short I did it, yay! I am now a steel wearing knight, a more manly prettyboy you'll never find.

Alive.
Take that Ledgerfags!