rogaining (Geoff's Birthday Rogaine) 2:55:00 [2]
shoes: Asics Trabuco
Minigaine at Stirling with the birthday boy. His knees are worse than mine and I took a while to get used to slowing my walking pace, but there was plenty of scenic scenery to look at. Basically we went across to Aldgate, then Bridgewater via the Heysen Trail, then under the freeway through Arbury Park, up over the freeway to Old Mt Barker Rd then back down the hill past even more beautiful gardens than we had seen already. Funny moment was when we saw an open inspection. I said "we shouldn't, we're rogaining" and he said "but it's my birthday rogaine, I can do what I want!" We decided we were too daggy to go in, though.
Finished just in time to pull up our chairs next to the finish and watch the stream of late-comers huffing and puffing in (I predicted that the Kennedys would be 6 min late, and Zara/Lauren 8 min, after we had seen them over near the golf course with an hour left to cover the distance we'd taken 2 hours to walk).
It was a nice afternoon out, and although I would have loved to be running there was no way I could have done so for 3 hours - and it was definitely more fun than rogaining with my parents. Also quite a simple course and so we had our maps in our pockets for much of the time. I would have prefered real controls rather than Q&A though, and families may have wished they were closer together.