Rogaining 10:35:05 [4]
2nd half of rogaine.
Long hash house, 1:49:55, from 11:33 pm to 1:23 am.
Finished with a minute and 10 seconds to spare after a final push to get a 10-pointer at the end.
An excellent rogaine, and an excellent partner.
I think I broke my little toe on Friday. It was purple when I started the rogaine. I wrapped it in medical tape for compression, and then taped it to the next toe. After the rogaine the purple had spread to a good section of the foot and a blood blister had formed.
Nonetheless, we'd come all that way, so I sucked it up and did the rogaine. I was slower on downhills and leftward sloping sidehills as a result of the toe, but was able to jog OK. This rogaine involved more running than I usually do - most of the flats and gentle downhills.
We crossed maybe 150-200 fences. Most had barbed wire, usually quite rusted, and many were electrified. I landed on the barbed wire once and have four good gashes spaced 3 inches apart on my thigh. I got shocked once, and Eric was shocked a few times. We probably spent an hour just crossing fences.
Weather was great - cool, some rain. Views awesome. Nice course.
We were 44th out of 245 finishers; 11th out of 87 mixed open teams (that includes XV and XSV); 5th out of 35 XO teams, but the XV teams were a bit stronger: top 3 mixed teams were vets, and of the 10 mixed teams finishing ahead of us, 6 were vets.
The overall winners (Chris Forne and Marcel Hagener from New Zealand) were amazing - they beat the 2nd place finishers by 850 points. !