The CrossFit CrossXrace race was held at the Cesano Infantry School in recent days. The sporting event, authorized by the Army General Staff on the initiative of the Xample Sport Association asd, saw a large participation of athletes of all ages and genders.
All the participants battled over the two types of tracks planned for the competition: the first called 10 km Iron-Cross and the second called 20 km Super Iron Cross. Both routes, characterized by both artificial and natural obstacles, have put a strain on the athletes who have ventured into this new discipline, now increasingly widespread in Italy.
The event took place in a climate of healthy competition and between the applause and the looks of so many wives, children, husbands and girlfriends who were rooting for their loved ones.
The team competition was won by the "Ad Maiora" team, whose members traveled all the way in an average time of 1 he 13 '.
CrossXrace is one of the obstacle courses (Obstacle Racing Course or OCR) or even called Mud Run, which represent a new sporting discipline in which the participants, running on foot, cross a particular track overcoming obstacles of various types, both natural and artificial, approaching therefore to the physical training and to the military training to which the soldiers of the Italian Army are subjected and which constitute peculiar activities for the performance of the proper tasks of the Armed Force.
