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Exercise Lombarida was is an 18 hour patrolling exercise in Italy, where teams of 4 navigate between check points and complete tasks at stands placed along the course. Navigation is a key part of the exercise, as we started at 23:00 hrs, the first 6 hours was completed in the dark.

There was also the requirement of a minimum 10kg weight not including food and water, after adding 5 litres of water, and 2kg of rations it was considerably over 10kg.

Click here to view our tracks, on Googles MyTracks app. If you zoom in you'll see how lost we got at times!

Click here to read more about the competition

Team photograph afterwards, by the lake