During October 2008, 4 NCC (Air) cadets (Balaji, Jit Ray, Goutham and Nicholas) participated in the annual Challenge Quest organised by MCC HQ. It is a fitness competition in which NCC units compete against each other in a fitness test comprising of push ups, sit ups, a run and an obstacle course.
All participating cadets were required to be dressed in their full No.4 (army fatigues) attire. After waiting about an hour for our turn, we finally got a chance to participate in our first event - push ups. Doing push ups in our uniform was harder than doing it in the PE attire though. We had to do as many push-ups as we could in a minute. Right after that,we had to try and do 50 sit-ups in a minute. Then we had to go for a run which i guess was about 1.6km. Most of us found running after the two strenous exercises really tough.
We encouraged each other to keep up and we did complete the run without stopping. Then came the most fun part of the test-the obstacle course. All of us managed to finish the course. Finally we waited for other teams to finish the course and for the results. We were provided with refreshments in the meantime. Though we were disappointed that we had not finished in the top 3, we knew we had all tried our best. It was a very meaningful activity which taught us the values of teamwork and encouragement, pardon the cliche.
Written by: 1SG K. Goutham
