Today you would have aced it. They wear running shoes now just like they would in a real war.
We were allowed “go fasters” in the 90s for our PFTs so it’s not a new thing.
My most miserable PT test was when my black buddy and I had closed the bars and then walked around Lawton with bottles of wine talking all night long and heading back to the barracks with the sun, no time for a shower but I changed into work clothes for formation where we were all told that our PT test was that day.
My legs were dead, my feet sore from walking on concrete all night, and of course the hangover and dehydration, I easily passed but didn’t even try to max it, and I think dry heaves were involved.