Glenn Rogers Takes US Rogaine Championships
Last weekend DART-nuun team member Glenn Rogers teamed up with Matt Hayes and traveled back to New York where they won the US Rogaine Championships. Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross-country navigation. The championship rogaine lasts 24 hours and covered 170 square kilometers in Allegany State Park.Teams were greeted with thunderstorms as they arrived on Friday afternoon at Camp Turner. On Saturday morning, the rain had let up slightly but I was glad to have brought my Alpha SL. Maps were handed out at 9:00AM after a brief prerace meeting. Teams then had 2 hours to plan their routes before the start of the race. Teams are allowed to travel in any order, to any of 60 controls which are worth various point values. The team that returns within 24 hours with the most points wins the race. An unusual aspect of rogaines is that the only navigation aids allowed are map and compass. So my trusted Suunto T-6c with altimeter and foot pod had to stay at home while my Suunto MC-2 compass took the heavy load of helping us through the forest. At 11:00AM the bell was rung and teams headed off in all directions on their intended routes.
Our route took us to the larger northern loop first. We were out in the wet rainy forest for 18 hours before we returned to the hash house to reload on food. My Reactor Pack was a great fit for the race. I loaded it up with my 70oz Hydrapak, Light and Motion Stella with headstrap and cub battery, food, and of course, my bladder was loaded up with nuun.
Running cross country in a wet forest wreaks havoc on your feet. I was fortunate to have Vasque Velocity together with my Teko ecomerino men's ultralight crew socks. After 24 hours, my feet were still in great shape.While some of our DART-nuun team members are off to compete in Primal Quest, the rest of us continue to train for the Gorge Games coming to the northwest in July.
posted by Glenn @ 9:41 AM
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