Hey there everyone! My name is Brigit, I am 19 years old and have lived in Cape Canaveral, Florida my whole life. I'm about 5 minutes from the Kennedy Space center here, and a block from the beach. 

Hey Brigit!

IWe have the same ship date!My name's Megan and I'll be shipping out of Honolulu so at least you won't be the only person from a tropical state thrusted into the New Jersey winter. I have some friends from New Jersey and I asked them what they had to say about the winter in Cape May and they just laughed and said it'll be cold but since we'll be doing a lot of physical activities it shouldn't be too bad. I haven't seen substantial snow in my life so I'll take "not too bad" with a grain of salt. You seem like you're pretty physically active. What ratings are you looking to get into? Either way, it's fun meeting someone on here I'll be roughing it out with in basic!

Enjoy your journey...have a blast.

Brigit..Sounds like you've got a good physical routine in place. The other thing you really should do is work on your required knowledge. Hop over to...http://www.gocoastguard.com/downloa...literature and download a copy of The Helmsman. You'll need to know everything in there, so get a jump on it now. Best of luck @ Cape May!

CPORJM

WoW, what a small world, one of our fellow office recruits representing!!

I'm leaving January 14th from Tampa Florida!  I'm so nervous about running in the cold especially when I'm not the perfect runner to begin with!

You will do just fine...just like those before have been just fine. No worries!

I was there almost 3 years ago from December through February. We couldn't run outside because of the snow very much so as far as physical activity we shoveled a lot of snow and we spent a lot of time in the gym lifting and spinning. They will issue you cold weather gear. Put we were told to bring long underwear. No one really wore them though because you were only outside to march from point a to point b and it would be to hot to wear it inside anywhere. We did have some nice days though which we did on bass runs which was around 3-5 miles I think. Depends on the route your CC wants to take. We ran those in formation so it wasn't any type of race. Its been 3 years but if you have any other questions just let me known and I'll try to remember how it went for us. Enjoy it though. You will miss it when its over

Posted By blitzburgh on 05 Oct 2013 02:19 AM
I was there almost 3 years ago from December through February. We couldn't run outside because of the snow very much so as far as physical activity we shoveled a lot of snow and we spent a lot of time in the gym lifting and spinning. They will issue you cold weather gear. Put we were told to bring long underwear. No one really wore them though because you were only outside to march from point a to point b and it would be to hot to wear it inside anywhere. We did have some nice days though which we did on bass runs which was around 3-5 miles I think. Depends on the route your CC wants to take. We ran those in formation so it wasn't any type of race. Its been 3 years but if you have any other questions just let me known and I'll try to remember how it went for us. Enjoy it though. You will miss it when its over

Wow, thank you for the info that really helps a lot! I was wondering how the physical was going to work in the cold? Will we still take the running test on the outdoor track? And was the pool freezing? I know it's been a while for you but I really appreciate the help!

Not a problem. The pool is indoor and wasn't cold at all. I assume its heated but I don't really know. We did our mile and a half run on the track on a nice day but there was rumor that we would have to shovel it before if it had snow. It seemed sketchy and unsafe but it never came to that. There's also an indoor circuit class we did in the gym. I'm not sure it every company does it or just winter ones. But I never noticed the cold because we were bundled up. Just don't forget your gloves or watch cover (winter hat) when you go outside. And put your sweat pants and sweat shirt on in the morning when you wake up and go straight outside for some push ups, sit ups, squats and flutter kicks because if your in shorts and t shirt it gets cold waiting for your CCs.