Over the Border Rogaine
Mike Hotchkis/NSW Rogaining Assoc / 30.08.2005
“Over the Border Rogaine�, SE Queensland, 21-22 May The Perfect Rogaine – Australian Rogaining Championships 2005 Optimum strategy, perfectly executed. Does it ever happen? In winning this year’s Australian Championships, David Rowlands and I seemed to come close to that ideal. So here’s how we did it. David and I discussed doing this event together back in March. David admitted that he had being looking around for a younger partner (when we did last year’s Champs together, the difference in our fitness had shown up in the last 6 hours of the event, and we had had to settle for 3rd place). However, I was determined to get my fitness to a higher level, and I could see from the descriptions of the event location that it was going to be my kind of country. David agreed to team up – no youthful partners had emerged anyway. David came up from Melbourne for the ANZAC rogaine, for a practice run together. It went well. We used it mainly for navigational practice, rather than going all-out. To win a major rogaine, you need endurance fitness, good navigation skills and be well prepared. In regard to these, we were roughly on a par with the other top teams. But I believe it was strategy that won this event for us, so that’s what I’ll concentrate on here
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