Reading your comments, results, and map emailed to me by Frank Boscoe, I am still bummed of not having made it. Reached out to all my locals but none were available to team up... who was moving... who was traveling... who was in a week-long mountain bike clinic... who was No-Way-I-Am-Doing-This-Crazy-Thing... who was relaxing by a pool with a martini...
So, what did it I do instead? went on a mass-float on a river with 80 people, lazily floating down.
In a way it reminded me the 1969 spaghetti-western film
Once Upon a Time in the West, when Harmonica tells Frank "so you are not a business man after all" and Frank replies "Just a man".
you can replace the dialogue with "So you are not a Rogainer after all" ...