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More facts of Nordic skiing? The long distances, rough terrain and use of the entire body make it formidable cardiovascular fitness. It’s little won- der that when the aerobic capacities of top ath- letes are measured, Nordic skiers come out on top. The VO2 max is the scale used. It is the maximum rate of oxygen consumption as meas- ured during incremental exercise in millilitres of oxygen consumed per minute per kilogram of body weight (ml/kg/min). Science. Top swim- mers come in at 70, marathon runners around
75, cyclists as high as 88. Nordic skiers have peaked at 96.
The highlight of our expedition was climbing up to the hardangervidda and learning of the Tele- mark raid carried out during the war by Norwe- gian and British Commandos on the heavy-water plant. We skied on some of the tracks they had used for extraction. Our close group grew closer still. Thanks to the Sandhurst Trust for their gen- erous support.
Exercise ZENOBIAN EXPLORER
Or: ‘You can take a cadet to water, but you can’t make him dive’
Hours after marching off the square of Old College from the Commissioning Parade,
This expedition would comprise five days of diving...
Sub-aqua diving is, as everyone knows, a morning sport, so the expedition members rose with the sun to convene at the dive centre at the familiar time of 0800hrs. For the novice group, day one was a day of
eight Officer Cadets from the The
Somme Company boarded flights
to Cyprus to conduct what, for
some, would be their most arduous expedition yet: EX ZENOBIAN EXPLORER. This expedition would comprise five days of diving, with the more experienced divers taking on the giddying depths of the Nitrox SDI course, and for the novices, the chance to earn their Open Water PADI qualifica- tion. Having landed in Larnaca, the cadets located their rental TCV and took to the streets of Cyprus in search of their hard standing for the week.
classroom serials in the Cypriot version of Wool- wich Hall, culminating in 50 questions to assess how much information had been absorbed. Needless to say, the potential officers remained cool under pressure and passed with flying col- ours, ready to take to the water the next day. The instructors from Dive In Larnaca took the cadets through the basics of the equipment and how to maintain it above and below water, how to con-
“No photos please” (OCdt Broadhead)
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