World Rogaining Champs
The Start is Almost Upon Us
Members of the Organising Team / 12.10.2006
Leading up to the event, there is a friendly atmosphere in the Event Centre / Hash House with old acquaintances from rogaines elsewhere and from their home countries catching up with each other. The Estonian contingent enjoyed a friendly reunion around their country\'s flag.The latest weather report suggests clear skies - the drought continues for NSW Australia - however the low thirty degree day-time temperatures and single digit night time temperature will require teams to control their desires in the first six hours of the event or risk burning out.
On sunset last evening Bill Robinson, an Elder of the Gamilaroi People, opened the 7WRC with a traditional Welcome to Country. By evening four hundred people had arrived for the welcome. Mark Fossdick of the National Parks Service also welcomed the entrants and volunteers to his and his colleagues\' special \"office.\" Entrants arriving by coach, as well as avoiding the 6 hour car drive, timed it perfectly to enjoy the welcoming ceremony.
John Shorebrook a local astronomer provided an entertaining review of why if your going to be an athlete (rogainer) you should be born Aires not Pisces; after all how could a fish run? As the sun set the observant entrant would have realised how dark it will be tomorrow night before the moon rises in the early am.See All Event Posts
