CPT Private RallyPoint Member 218221 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Everytime I have taken a PT test, and everyone I had talked to prior to today, have always started the 2 mile run time as soon as the last person crossed the start line.<br /><br />After consulting one of our AIT PSGs and looking in the regulation, it appears that there is no validity to this. the way the Reg. reads is: <br /><br />“THE 2-MILE RUN MEASURES YOUR AEROBIC FITNESS AND ENDURANCE OF<br />THE LEG MUSCLES. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE RUN WITHOUT ANY PHYSICAL<br />HELP. AT THE START, ALL SOLDIERS WILL LINE UP BEHIND THE STARTING<br />LINE. ON THE COMMAND ‘GO’, THE CLOCK WILL START. YOU WILL BEGIN<br />RUNNING AT YOUR OWN PACE."<br /><br />I believe it the old guidance is baised off of the old 21.20 regulation.<br /><br />What are your thoughts on this? Why do you think they changed it? Do you agree or disagree? 2014-08-26T16:42:33-04:00 CPT Private RallyPoint Member 218221

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Everytime I have taken a PT test, and everyone I had talked to prior to today, have always started the 2 mile run time as soon as the last person crossed the start line.<br /><br />After consulting one of our AIT PSGs and looking in the regulation, it appears that there is no validity to this. the way the Reg. reads is: <br /><br />“THE 2-MILE RUN MEASURES YOUR AEROBIC FITNESS AND ENDURANCE OF<br />THE LEG MUSCLES. YOU MUST COMPLETE THE RUN WITHOUT ANY PHYSICAL<br />HELP. AT THE START, ALL SOLDIERS WILL LINE UP BEHIND THE STARTING<br />LINE. ON THE COMMAND ‘GO’, THE CLOCK WILL START. YOU WILL BEGIN<br />RUNNING AT YOUR OWN PACE."<br /><br />I believe it the old guidance is baised off of the old 21.20 regulation.<br /><br />What are your thoughts on this? Why do you think they changed it? Do you agree or disagree?

2014-08-26T16:42:33-04:00 2014-08-26T16:42:33-04:00 CSM Mike Maynard 232746

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>The iteration of the 21.20 that allowed you to start the clock when the last person started was in the 80's.<br /><br />Not many folks still in that were around when this was actual the standard - I joined in '89 and it has always been that the time started on "Go".

2014-09-08T13:07:29-04:00 2014-09-08T13:07:29-04:00 CW2 Jonathan Kantor 232791

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I'm pretty sure you are supposed to start the clock as soon as you sound the word go. That's how it's always been since I have been in the Army.

2014-09-08T13:36:59-04:00 2014-09-08T13:36:59-04:00 SFC William Swartz Jr 232844

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>My first couple of APFTs after I joined in '87 fell under the old "time doesn't start until last runner crosses the start line", but from either late '89 or early '90 it starts upon the command Go..was that way when I was an SGL/SrSGL at PLDC '00-'02 and as a Sr Instructor for ABOLC '11-'13. Doesn't provide an advantage/disadvantage at all, in fact if someone is worried about when the clock starts, they probably have a LOT more to be concerned about than the 1-3 seconds difference.....

2014-09-08T14:18:10-04:00 2014-09-08T14:18:10-04:00 SGT Private RallyPoint Member 4743797

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>That’s the way I’ve heard it, if that isn’t the reg, then that’s a shame.

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