Originally Posted by
Oxeagle
A rather worried Ox

Good job on leaving things to the last minute! Surely if you have been going though the application process, you should have been getting yourself fit in the meantime, before you even got your date?
If you don't feel ready, phone OASC and defer your selection as WTN said. Last years recruitment figures were apparently slim, and though I do not know this year's ones, do you really want to give yourself a reason not to be picked over someone else?
It's a shame, fitness is the one thing that YOU can control and you can make sure you excel at, and it sounds as though you haven't bothered. Are you sure you want to join?
Also remember that yes it is a minimum requirement, but it is also to gauge how well you could do at IOT. At IOT to want to be running much much better than 8.6.