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Saturday Nov 2, 2013 #
3 PM
rogaining race (Minigaine) 2:58:00 [4] 26.5 km (6:43 / km)
shoes: Asics GT-2000
I am never again wearing a hospital gown while running around for 3 hours on a 30 degree day! Andrew K & I did take our face masks off after a little while though...it was all in the name of the extra 40 points that wearing fancy dress gained rogaine teams. We startled a lady driver, who, when we were trying to cross a road against the traffic in defiance of all the rules governing pedestrians, wound down her window and asked if we were okay! I guess the "escaped patients" costume was more effective than I had realised :)
Minigaine started on the university ovals behind the zoo and took in all of Adelaide city and parklands plus north Adelaide and surrounds. I shot my mouth off earlier in the week when I implied that it could be cleanuppable - that was for anyone who managed 30km, which nobody did.
I suggested when Andrew found himself at a loose end because Will had to study, that he might like to team up with the fast girls - but in the end we decided to provide them with *some* competition. For the first couple of hours I was going mostly okay; feeling pretty buggered running on pavement because we went to all the squares in the city (6 squares gained teams an extra 50 points) and when we saw Bruce Greenhalgh and Steve Sullivan in the West Tce cemetery at 4:35pm (going the opposite way around to us, so they had covered about half the course also) I thought that they weren't quite going to clean up and that meant probably neither were we, because I wasn't able to run as fast as they were going.
But I really died in the arse, so to speak, going up Montefiore Hill, and not even the sight of Zara & Lauren in their fairy wings flitting in and out of that control (they appeared to have lost their mullet wigs though) was enough to spur me on. A drink and some lollies, not to mention salt tablets, helped a bit but from then on it was salvage time and we decided to leave out 82 and 34 in the NW and head straight north to the pool. I wasn't certain of managing all 3 controls along the river in Hackney, so we went to 33 on the horse paddocks (which was a dogleg that Z&L sensibly left out) and then AK convinced me to still get 2 of the river controls, leaving out 71 on the billabong. It was nice at the end to have someone else doing the thinking for me :)
So we were 2nd, to Z&L who were moving very fluently whenever I saw them, and just ahead of Bruce & Steve who got more points from controls than we did but who had decided against fancy dress (it feels a little hollow to have "beaten" them when really they were faster over this course). Still thinking that we may have done better not to go to 35 and 55 in the middle early on and then would have had time for 82 and 34 - or if I hadn't died we'd have at least managed 71. I still think it was an okay effort, especially after having worked this morning, although I certainly hope that the equivalent distance doesn't take me 3 hours at 3 Bays!
Minigaine started on the university ovals behind the zoo and took in all of Adelaide city and parklands plus north Adelaide and surrounds. I shot my mouth off earlier in the week when I implied that it could be cleanuppable - that was for anyone who managed 30km, which nobody did.
I suggested when Andrew found himself at a loose end because Will had to study, that he might like to team up with the fast girls - but in the end we decided to provide them with *some* competition. For the first couple of hours I was going mostly okay; feeling pretty buggered running on pavement because we went to all the squares in the city (6 squares gained teams an extra 50 points) and when we saw Bruce Greenhalgh and Steve Sullivan in the West Tce cemetery at 4:35pm (going the opposite way around to us, so they had covered about half the course also) I thought that they weren't quite going to clean up and that meant probably neither were we, because I wasn't able to run as fast as they were going.
But I really died in the arse, so to speak, going up Montefiore Hill, and not even the sight of Zara & Lauren in their fairy wings flitting in and out of that control (they appeared to have lost their mullet wigs though) was enough to spur me on. A drink and some lollies, not to mention salt tablets, helped a bit but from then on it was salvage time and we decided to leave out 82 and 34 in the NW and head straight north to the pool. I wasn't certain of managing all 3 controls along the river in Hackney, so we went to 33 on the horse paddocks (which was a dogleg that Z&L sensibly left out) and then AK convinced me to still get 2 of the river controls, leaving out 71 on the billabong. It was nice at the end to have someone else doing the thinking for me :)
So we were 2nd, to Z&L who were moving very fluently whenever I saw them, and just ahead of Bruce & Steve who got more points from controls than we did but who had decided against fancy dress (it feels a little hollow to have "beaten" them when really they were faster over this course). Still thinking that we may have done better not to go to 35 and 55 in the middle early on and then would have had time for 82 and 34 - or if I hadn't died we'd have at least managed 71. I still think it was an okay effort, especially after having worked this morning, although I certainly hope that the equivalent distance doesn't take me 3 hours at 3 Bays!