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Saturday Aug 16, 2014 #
8 AM
Rogaine race 23:53:00 *** 39.5 km (36:17 / km) +1530m 30:24 / km
World Rogaine Championships 2014. Did this with my brother Steve. We don't usually spend a huge amount of time planning and after looking at other's peoples tracks, it looks like we were not very efficient in racking up points for the distance we traveled. We do like to come in and sleep at night. Our plan was to do a loop to the southwest of the HH and end up near control 42 when darkness hit, then get 42, 70, 20, and 33 in the dark before stopping for the night. It was much slower than anticipated though, so we didn't get that far. Instead we ended up doing 85, 41, 60 and 20 in the dark. We had heard at the waterstop that a lot of people had trouble with 85 and never found it. We attacked with bearing and pace counting from the trail junction closest to the control. Since we knew it might be difficult we didn't spend a lot of time searching in the dark. We weren't lucky enough to just run into it, so we bailed and went back without those 80 points :-(
Day two decided to stay close to the HH and pick up lots of lower point controls rather than go for a high pointer and feel stressed about getting back on time. In general enjoyed it. I wasn't happy with the inconsistent mapping of trails. It was always annoying to get to a control and discover that a pretty significant road was very close but not mapped. Seemed a little too bingo to me in terms of route choice. Some areas were very annoying with the deadfall, but we found others quite nice. Liked the big cliffs and rocks. Glad that it was nice warm weather and not really wet - although we did slog through a swamp Saturday night just before hitting the HH.
The Garmin track shows our actual route for the first loop. The bagged Garmin died overnight though, so the best we have for the rest of it is this nice route map from bmoore.
http://www.schuhmann.us/wrc/routes/188.jpeg
Ended up with 1170 points. Gavin and Sue (the team we were out for) bested us with 1370. They stayed out and did find 85.
Placed 143 out of 175 finishers.
Placed 64 of 79 Mixed teams.
Placed 40 of 49 Mixed Veterans.
After the Rogaine enjoyed a nice side trip to see Mount Rushmore before heading home. Also enjoyed conversation with Eric and Mary Smith at the airport. Congrats to them on their second place XUV finish!
Day two decided to stay close to the HH and pick up lots of lower point controls rather than go for a high pointer and feel stressed about getting back on time. In general enjoyed it. I wasn't happy with the inconsistent mapping of trails. It was always annoying to get to a control and discover that a pretty significant road was very close but not mapped. Seemed a little too bingo to me in terms of route choice. Some areas were very annoying with the deadfall, but we found others quite nice. Liked the big cliffs and rocks. Glad that it was nice warm weather and not really wet - although we did slog through a swamp Saturday night just before hitting the HH.
The Garmin track shows our actual route for the first loop. The bagged Garmin died overnight though, so the best we have for the rest of it is this nice route map from bmoore.
http://www.schuhmann.us/wrc/routes/188.jpeg
Ended up with 1170 points. Gavin and Sue (the team we were out for) bested us with 1370. They stayed out and did find 85.
Placed 143 out of 175 finishers.
Placed 64 of 79 Mixed teams.
Placed 40 of 49 Mixed Veterans.
After the Rogaine enjoyed a nice side trip to see Mount Rushmore before heading home. Also enjoyed conversation with Eric and Mary Smith at the airport. Congrats to them on their second place XUV finish!