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Sept Start Date

  • 02-08-2008 06:52PM
    #1
    JayNorthDown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭


    Just wondering if anyone else is starting on the 7th september.


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  • #2
    New Recruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭New Recruit


    Aye, I'm starting on the 7th, along with a few others on here...

    Look forward to meeting you.:cool:


  • #3
    egwene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭egwene


    I'm starting on the 7th too

    Got my pack in the post the other day, lots of forms to fill in!
    Looking forward to handing in my notice tomorrow :)


  • #4
    Rob-117
    Closed Accounts Posts: 93 ✭✭Rob-117


    I'm suppose to but i'm trying to push it back to the october 12 intake!


  • #5
    New Recruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭New Recruit


    For those starting on the 7th September with me, I have it on good source that we will be a squad of 60 and will be known as the Greens....

    Cant wait to get started:cool:


  • #6
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Hi guys, sounds like I'm gonna be a green too, and it is sooo not my colour!!

    Anyway how are you all feeling about it? I am pretty nervous about one thing only.....my fitness! Don't get me wrong, I have been working on it for months, but I'm not a naturally athletic person by any stretch of the imagination!! I am obviously gonna get stuck in now, but hope my lack of co-ordination doesn't hold me back!!


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  • #7
    New Recruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭New Recruit


    soozb82 wrote: »
    Hi guys, sounds like I'm gonna be a green too, and it is sooo not my colour!!

    Anyway how are you all feeling about it? I am pretty nervous about one thing only.....my fitness! Don't get me wrong, I have been working on it for months, but I'm not a naturally athletic person by any stretch of the imagination!! I am obviously gonna get stuck in now, but hope my lack of co-ordination doesn't hold me back!!

    Congratulations Sooz...Don't worry, as long as you are doing plenty of running and lots of core strength work (sit-ups and press-ups) you should have enough basic fitness to see you through most of what they can throw at you..

    We are all nervous, 59 others in the squad will have the same feelings of aprehension that you have, me included...It's fear of the unknown, but this is what we have all wanted, we are about to live our dream!

    Look forward to meeting you at SRN on 26th August...


  • #8
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Thanks. It is nice so nice to be able to speak to people in the same situation, talking to family and friends is one thing but they obviously don't understand! One thing that is reassuring me slightly is that I have a distant relative who is a cop, and he has always been a big lad.....so if he can do it I'm hoping I can!!

    I have to say though, just reading the starter pack, with everything else I can't wait to get started, it all sounds so interesting!

    I suppose I may go and have a look at this 'starting in GV' thread, good job I cleared my credit card!!!


  • #9
    SFMCC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭SFMCC


    Hi All
    I start on september 7th as well. Been out running most nights and its killing me. I will have to start on press ups as its one exercise i have always been rubbish at and knowing my luck they will probably ask us to do loads:confused:.
    SFMCC


  • #10
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Running every night???!!! Oh god, you're depressing me! I've started spin, which is a killer but at least it should improve my fitness! Really HATE running, I can just imagine me looking like Phoebe from friends, running down the road like a nutcase! But I suppose I better start! I'm also pretty much as weak as water......sounds good doesn't it!!

    Oh well, I've booked in to get a programme done and I may move into the gym, I'm gonna be so buff by september!

    Here's hoping all the people that aren't on boards are normal, not fitness fanatics like everyone on here! All I want is ONE person worse than me, it's not too much to ask is it???!!


  • #11
    SFMCC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭SFMCC


    Lisnsooz posted this and that has made me panic so I have been trying to increase my fitness levels - I've tried it and it isn't easy to start with.

    " I didn't pass the PCA on the first try (tho - passed it at the midcourse assessment). They gave me a sprinting programme that you can do in any gym. It's as so":
    warm up and stretch etc etc
    treadmill at 1.0 incline (might depend on treadmill tho)
    2 mins @ 11kph
    2 mins rest
    2mins @ 12kph
    2mins rest
    1min @ 12, then 1min rest (do this 3 times)
    30 secs @ 13, then 30 secs rest (do this 3 times)
    then warm down adn stretch holding stretches for 30 secs or so.

    I found this was good for getting up anaerobic fitness. Sounds easy, but for a few weeks getting the two mins @ 12kph was tough, but you get it eventually :-)

    Lis...nearly at finish line!


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  • #12
    pb999
    Closed Accounts Posts: 120 ✭✭pb999


    ooo greens, for what i've heard the greens are always the controversial squad, the squad that gets in trouble! lol


  • #13
    egwene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭egwene


    i tried Lisnsooz's sprinting program tonight in the gym, and i couldnt quite pull it off... the 2 mins at 12kph was just outta my reach!
    hope i havent left this too late... im so far off being able to run 3 miles its scary...


  • #14
    Fiacmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Fiacmar


    Also in on the 7th!

    Easy to recognise, I'll be the going grey, past-his-prime-overweight-guy that makes you all feel so much better about your own fitness levels (in a kind of a schadenfreude "at least I won't be last" way) ...:o


  • #15
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Fiacmar.....thanks god for you!!! We can keep each other company at the back of the class then!!

    But i keep telling myself if we got through the fitness we can't be that bad....and I know a chubby cop, I can safely say that I am fitter than he ever was and he managed it, so there is hope for us all!


  • #16
    Fiacmar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭Fiacmar


    soozb82 wrote: »
    Fiacmar.....thanks god for you!!! We can keep each other company at the back of the class then!!

    Deal!! We'll take it handy and have a grand chat as we get lapped by the ultra-fit future-TSG boys and girls :P


  • #17
    SFMCC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 39 ✭SFMCC


    I think PSNI will have to make the lanes wider for running as its sounds like we will all be running at the back together;) Perhaps if all 50 recruits run at a slow speed they would increase the time limits:)
    SFMCC


  • #18
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Sounds like a plan! I am getting the impression we are gonna be the lazy ass group of this intake..


  • #19
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Quiet in here! Maybe I am the only person with an unbelievably boring job that doesn't really require me to do any work....or maybe everybody else is getting their last minute holidays in.....well enjoy if that is the case!


  • #20
    carlty888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭carlty888


    You're definately not the only one wth an unbelievably boring job. That's one of the many reasons why so many of us want into the police. A job that is not boring!

    (Disclaimer: Yes, I understand that there will be elements of the job that are boring, but the job, as a whole, is not)


  • #21
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Yeah the pros of this job are the nice working hours, flexi time etc but seriously I can hardly put the day in!! 30 years of this would drive me insane!!


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  • #22
    carlty888
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,258 ✭✭✭carlty888


    soozb82 wrote: »
    Yeah the pros of this job are the nice working hours, flexi time etc but seriously I can hardly put the day in!! 30 years of this would drive me insane!!

    You sound like a civil servant! :D


  • #23
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Not quite, just temping at the moment! Got my civil service job in the pipeline tho, just keeping it in the background in case I get kicked out of PS for not being able to do 60 push ups and run 6 miles in 40 mins.....or whatever your man said!! :eek:

    God I hope it doesn't come to that!!!!!


  • #24
    egwene
    Closed Accounts Posts: 29 ✭egwene


    i was wondering what everyone is planning on wearing tomorrow to the SRN?


  • #25
    New Recruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭New Recruit


    Was thinkin the same myself Euge....Smart Casual I think i.e. Trousers and a shirt.

    What is normally worn at these nights?


  • #26
    MrsGeneHunt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,012 ✭✭✭MrsGeneHunt


    I have it on good authority (from someone in the hotel at the minute) that very smart is the way to go for SRN. Jeans/Casual will be frowned on big style. For a job where the uniform is paramount, I think you'd want to be demonstrating you can be very well turned out.


  • #27
    Par827
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Par827


    Evening all,

    just getting my stuff together for the return to Hotel GV so thought I'd wish all those attending SRN tomorrow good luck. It's not as daunting as you might think, there'll be lots of talk from head honcho's etc and then you'll get chats from your instructors, before getting fitted for uniform. We'll all be there escorting in our yellow flashes ( you'll be Green !), and your wives, husbands, partners, parents etc will all get a guided tour of the luxury facilities. You'll all then meet up in the canteen before being sent on your merry way to wonder if you're really doing the right thing !!!

    DON'T PANIC !

    Take as much in as you can and feel free to ask anyone, anything that you want.

    See you there ! :):):)


  • #28
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Dunno how much use this is to you if you are a male but anyway.... I'm wearing a skirt and top, basically something I would wear into the office. Well nicer than what I usually wear, but if I worked in an office where anybody cared!!

    I can't wait to see what it is like, and what everybody else looks like, have a good nose basically!!


  • #29
    Par827
    Closed Accounts Posts: 65 ✭✭Par827


    New Recruit wrote: »
    Was thinkin the same myself Euge....Smart Casual I think i.e. Trousers and a shirt.

    What is normally worn at these nights?




    Folks,

    The dress for SRN is definitely suits or equivalent for females !!
    Anything else is frowned upon.


  • #30
    New Recruit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 87 ✭✭New Recruit


    Whistlin' Flute it is then:cool:

    Look forward to meeting you all tomorrow night...

    UP THE GREENS...


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  • #31
    soozb82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 60 ✭✭soozb82


    Well greens, what did you all think?? Excited? Nervous? I was actually quite reassured by everything I heard, although there was plenty of firmness and rules and regulations talk, I thought everyone seemed nice and there was a nice atmosphere...

    & LOVED trying on the uniform, felt like a wally in the boots mind you but it still made it seem so real!

    Was anybody else in the first group alphabetically? Seemed to be a lot more men than women I thought


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