Rogaining race (Shake Rattle and Roll 6hr) 6:02:41 [3] 36.46 km (9:57 / km) +1093m 8:39 / km
shoes: Salomon XA Pro No.2 Black/Gree
Wil and I panned a base course of about 33km, with options to clean up.
Wasted 2 mins at the start trying to find the bingo control in and around the cafe before heading out on not the marked track, kinda towards 66. Passed quite a few people heading out of 78 and we cunningly ran past them all before Wil realised I was taking us towards 67 instead of 65, so we had pretty much double back to go around the OOB.
Pretty smooth till 72 where we went under the powerlines and got mst of the way to another OOB before realising there was no track along the pwerlines and going back for the control.
We were well behind cleanup pace come first decision/option time so we left 59 off. Stayed clean, took the Bib track from 104 towards 95 even though it was so faintly marked on the map that we couldn't actually see it, so guesstimated our way quite nicely into 95.
We were pretty loose looking for 74 which seemed a lot more than 20m north of the track, in the process we passed Sten and Co leaving 75, they passed us again as we faffed looking for 74 then we must have taken off again.
Too late for the 105 option qand by the time we got to 102 we were very short of time and just grabbed 53 on the way in.
Enjoyed the course, cleanup distance was tempting enough for us to keep our options open, ended up leaving out 5 controls. Felt pretty warm at times, had to poor water over my head a few times, but kept stomach mostly happy the whole time.