Discussion: Rogaining

Would Rogaining fall into the adventure racing category or the orienteering category for most AP users?

I'd put it in a crazy little section all of its own. If I had to choose, I'd say it's more like orienteering, but I'd put in it the adventure racing category, because it's not orienteering and there's no strict defnition of what comprises an adventure race that I'm aware of.

Rogaining: Score orienteering with an inadequate map.

Rogaining is a sub-standard of orienteering. It's just an extended score orienteering event with slightly different rules allowing pre-planning of routes before the start of the event. It grew out of our intervarsity 24-hour score competition which in turn was a development of our university club's 24-hour walk which used a defined course and would have been defined as an adventure race by today's standards.

Attn: ken -- is there any way to classify events in more than one category when adding them to the Racing calendar?

Oxoman, you sound as though you might have been present at the *First* Rogaine. If so could you fill in a few more details? Namely

1. How did the name Rogaine occur?
2. Who was "our intervarsity" and which university?
3. What was a 24-hour "walk?"
4. How has the event changed from its original concept?

There's an old book called something along the lines of "Cross country navigation - rogaining" that has a history of rogaining in it plus stories, map excerpts. It is a pretty simple book... from memory written by one or more of the people who gave rogaining its name.. Rod, Gail, and Neil Phillips.

Janet-- there is not a way to put events in more than one sport category.

Yes, Rogaine is derived from Rod, Gail and Neil Phillips.
I predate rogaining. I retired from 24-hours before rogaining appeared.
The Melbourne University Mountaineering Club (MUMC) held its first 24-hour walk in 1954 (I think it was), on the weekend closest to the longest night of the year and the full moon. The objective being to see who could walk/run the furthest in 24 hours. This was along a defined sequence of check points as we do today with our classic format orienteering. Checkpoints were identified by a tape around a tree and a glass jar containing a book of tickets which each team signed off with the time of their visit. It was very much a social event.
The Australian universities hold their inter-university (intervarsity) sporting competitions. A competitive 24 hour walk became a feature of the annual intervarsity competition except that this took the form of a 24-hour score event. I am not aware of reasons for selecting the score format which is now in general use.
Because it was a university competition participation was restricted and the Phillips family and friends formed their own sport & organisation with events open to the general public.

Incidentally, the Oxoman is the symbol/icon of the MUMC and a generic name for its members. I adopted it as my pseudonym.