It’s not about the average over time. You are required to keep a continuous pace. If you drop below spec you are given a warning. The fourth warning is a rain of lead in your body. You can lose a warning by keeping pace for one hour and you can accumulate addition warnings until mortality if you don’t get back up to speed after a given warning.
So with no warnings you have less than 40 seconds to live if you just stop.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
They have guards that shoot you if you stop.
Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I know, but do the guards stay with the group or will one break off and jog alongside you…
Lumidaub@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
It’s been a while since I read it but the guards also there to make sure you don’t abscond. Which would probably include running ahead of the group.
calliope@retrolemmy.com 2 weeks ago
Correct, in the book they have multiple groups of soldiers that run ahead of there is a vanguard.
I’m reading it too because I read it over a decade ago and making it into a movie seemed stupid to me. So I wanted to know how stupid.