Rogaine (Herogaine 6hr) 5:58:09 [2] 34.0 km (10:32 / km)
shoes: adidas supernova trail
Last minute replacement for Wil, teaming up with Andre. Felt like we planned a pretty good but massively optimistic route. Andre suggested a sensible 33km, and we planned a loop that was 35.5km. All bush, never rogained together before... was never likely to happen. We were bang on pace for the first 2 hours, but at the same time knew that it was unlikely we would maintai it. In the third hour we made our worst nav error (a few minutes circling a broad knoll looking for the control flag) and had the worst of the parrotbush, and by half way we were nearly 15 minutes behind schedule. Kept things going pretty well and Andre came up with a good last minute change to our route to get us home relatively effciently. He also spotted the last 2 controls that we ran quickly but inacurately towards in our haste to return in time.
I think I made Andre hurt a little, especially uphill, but he was strong and runs dowhill well. Runs the bits that we ran faster than Wil which was nice. Doesn't walk as fast though...
tRicky and Steve M tried to give us a chance by being ridiculously overoptimistic in their planning and coming in a little over 15 minutes late, but far superior leg speed got them home by 50 points