2013 Australian University Rogaine Champs ACT Team
Congratulations to Sarah Buckerfield and Alex Moody (representing the ANU) who are the ACT representatives for the Australian University Rogaine champs on 17/18 August in WA. Our representatives were chosen from the best performing university team in the 12 hour Autumn event on 20 April. Sarah and Alex came second overall, beating three other university teams who also placed in the top ten.
Sarah and Alex receive a travel subsidy of $1600 to the 2013 university championships from the Nigel Aylott Memorial Sporting Foundation covering entry fees, the flight over, accommodation on Sunday night and the flight back.
This will be the third time Sarah has competed in the Australian University Rogaine Championships – each time with a different partner! In 2012 she won the event with Ben Greenwood and 2011 won it with Phillip Gatt.
Last Updated on Monday, 13 May 2013 14:27
Autumn rogaines
The Autumn 6 hr, 5hr, and 12hr rogaines were held at the beautiful Tarlo River National Park. The course was superb. Dane Roberts, Kieran Macdonell, Claire Lonergan and Craig Cowan set a course that took in the highlights including stretches of beautiful river, views from the hills and some amazing conglomerate rocks. The six hour event was comprehensively taken out by Rob Walter and Matt Crane on a score of 1970, the five hour event was won by our supervets Kathy Saw and Anne Sawkins with 320 points, and the 12 hr was won by David Baldwin and Julie Quinn on a score of 2560. See the event page for the full results, navlight splits,and hopefully a story! A few photos are in the gallery but please email David if you have others you would like to put up. Many thanks to all our helpers for the event: the setters above, Aaron Coles, Lucy McGarva, Ian Dias, Ari Piiroinen for vetting; Glenn Bridgart, Jean Douglass, Ron Simpson, Kath Bell, Danielle Winslow (first aid), Lyndall Adams, Claire Edwards for general help.
Last Updated on Sunday, 12 May 2013 19:05
2013 Paddy Pallin rogaine
The 2013 Paddy Pallin Great Dividing Rogaine was run in cool but pleasant conditions. Congratulations to all the winners, especially Martin Dent and Rob Walter who won overall and cleared the course. A big thank you to Jean Douglass and Ron Simpson for setting a very good course that took in the highlights of Tallaganda National Park. Thank you to Paddy Pallin for supporitng the rogaine and providing excellent spot prizes. See the results for your score and splits from the navlight scoring and photos from the course and presentations.
Last Updated on Sunday, 12 May 2013 19:05
Entries open for WRC 2013
Entries are now open for the 2013 World Rogaining Championships to be held in Russia on 26-27 July 2013. Registration and team list are available on the event website.
Field size is limited to 1200 competitors - pre-qualified competitors gain automatic entry by registering in the next 14 days. For the first time at World Championship level, there will be ultra-veterans categories available for eligible teams (65 and over). There are already 181 competitors registered!
The Spring 6hr and 12hr rogaines held up to their promise of beautiful coastal spring weather. Congratulations to the amazing team of Rob Walter and Matt Crane who, with a score of 1610, took out the 6hr event (and would have also won the 12 hr if they had entered!). Congratulations to Craig Mottershead and Jasmine Elson who, with a score of 1580, won the 12 hr event. For all the results see the results page, and check out the photos too. We had three family teams in the 12 hr, including Kelly and Caitlin Young who won the womens open, and Peter, Tristan and Patrick Miller who were third in the mens open. We also had six family teams in the six hour event.
We found after the event that we had a transcribing error on the map with control #57 so if you went to #57 (and your splits indicate you were in the area looking for it) please email David and we will credit you with the 50 points. The control was marked on a parallel spur so you would not have found it! We are very sorry for the mistake.