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Saturday May 29, 2021 #
rogaine race 12:00:00 [3] 50.0 km (14:24 / km) +750m 13:24 / km
Aus rogaine champs near Burra, with Kate. thought this might be fun because I really like the o terrain, and somehow that thought bubble turned into reality. The last 24hr rogaine I did was 19 years ago, and I've never done all night before.
Our route plan was about 80km, +/- 10 depending on how we were going. We had been talking about coming back for dinner and a snooze, but that changed to definitely dinner, but try and keep going if we were feeling ok.
The hash house was in the middle of the map so that worked quite well.
Our route plan ended up being a 50km southern loop with steeper mallee hills to start with, and then more open country for the first part of the dark, which we figured would be particularly important before the moon came up. The second part of that loop also had a fair number of track route choices.
The northern loop was in steeper stuff early on, then out onto the flat stuff for to get back. We'd worked out plenty of options for shorter or longer versions depending on how we were travelling.
HH was where the assembly area had been for the first day of easter, and we started by crossing that dry river. Took a bit of zig-zagging on the way to the first control to get used to the scale, but fine after that. The first part until dark went really well, and we were well up on schedule by dark. stopped to put on lights and warm gear once the twilight faded and got really cold even in the few minutes we'd stopped. debated whether to stop again, but decided to try walking harder. spent the next few hours alternating between a bit too warm and a bit too cold as we went up and down the hills. Had a bit of a compass wobble on the first control back out in the flat but didn't lose too much time. in hindsight my bearings were trending a bit to the left. not sure whether it was my old compass or user error.
The moon rose about 9pm, and it was amazing.
Got caught out a bit on a control on a ruin on the flat where we got thrown off by an unmarked track. It got very cold down on the flats so it was good to be on the tracks a lot where we could keep the pace up. We added another layer of thermals which was ok for me, but Kate was getting very cold.
The rest of the part back into the HH was good, except for one control near the big creek around 1am. I'd drifted quite a bit to the left on the way in, which dumped us into a parallel error nearly a km out from where we should have been. fortunately picked up that the veg and contours on the other side of the creek weren't matching up and relocated. skull dragged ourselves back to the HH from there.
Our route plan was about 80km, +/- 10 depending on how we were going. We had been talking about coming back for dinner and a snooze, but that changed to definitely dinner, but try and keep going if we were feeling ok.
The hash house was in the middle of the map so that worked quite well.
Our route plan ended up being a 50km southern loop with steeper mallee hills to start with, and then more open country for the first part of the dark, which we figured would be particularly important before the moon came up. The second part of that loop also had a fair number of track route choices.
The northern loop was in steeper stuff early on, then out onto the flat stuff for to get back. We'd worked out plenty of options for shorter or longer versions depending on how we were travelling.
HH was where the assembly area had been for the first day of easter, and we started by crossing that dry river. Took a bit of zig-zagging on the way to the first control to get used to the scale, but fine after that. The first part until dark went really well, and we were well up on schedule by dark. stopped to put on lights and warm gear once the twilight faded and got really cold even in the few minutes we'd stopped. debated whether to stop again, but decided to try walking harder. spent the next few hours alternating between a bit too warm and a bit too cold as we went up and down the hills. Had a bit of a compass wobble on the first control back out in the flat but didn't lose too much time. in hindsight my bearings were trending a bit to the left. not sure whether it was my old compass or user error.
The moon rose about 9pm, and it was amazing.
Got caught out a bit on a control on a ruin on the flat where we got thrown off by an unmarked track. It got very cold down on the flats so it was good to be on the tracks a lot where we could keep the pace up. We added another layer of thermals which was ok for me, but Kate was getting very cold.
The rest of the part back into the HH was good, except for one control near the big creek around 1am. I'd drifted quite a bit to the left on the way in, which dumped us into a parallel error nearly a km out from where we should have been. fortunately picked up that the veg and contours on the other side of the creek weren't matching up and relocated. skull dragged ourselves back to the HH from there.