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Are you a Serious Rogainer?
Gill Fowler and Jess Baker
Dave Baldwin and Julie Quinn
David Williams and Ronnie Taib
Joel Mackay and Mike Hotchkis
Well here is your opportunity to find out by answering twenty simple questions.
All questions are multiple choice, just choose the single answer that best fits you.
1. During a rogaine do you?
Stop for nothing except unavoidable calls of nature
Stop only for food and drinks
Stop regularly for food & photos, and to chat with other teams
Stop for food and chats, plus a café break
2. Do you intuitively know which way is north?
Yes - even in the northern hemisphere
Yes
No
No - is that important?
3. Your good friend is in a different team - do you?
Wish them good luck before the event
Trash talk him, or her, when close
Try extra hard to beat his, or her team
Compare scores immediately post event
All of the above
4. There is an 8 hour and 24 hour event on offer. Do you?
Do the 24-hour and maybe stop for a 30-minute meal break
Do the 24 but include a feed and sleep at the hash house
Do the 8-hour and compete for the full 8 hours
Do the 8 and finish early
5. You need a partner for the next rogaine. Do you?
Find someone that will push you for the entire event
Find someone of similar ability
Go with spouse, so you do not get into trouble.
Select a partner because you like their looks
Go with someone who is good company
6. The event has finished, what do you do with the map?
Put it in a map box for posterity
Obsess over your route choice and everyone else's for the next week of two and then carefully catalogue it
Spend the next week analysing your route choices and then put it in a map box
Throw it in the bin
Use it to wrap a present
7. How many rogaines do you do each year?
1 or less
4 or more
Several
As many as your spouse or significant other will permit
8. During the event what do you and your team mate talk about?
Something to take your mind off the pain
Almost nothing because you are too tired to waste energy talking
Holidays, family and the local environment - any random subject
Nothing but route choice, navigation and where your competitors might be
9. Most people have not heard of rogaining. At a party do you?
Not even mention rogaining
Tell them you are a rogainer, but just describe it as long distance orienteering
Tell everyone you are a rogainer and spend the next hour talking about rogaining
Tell then that you orienteer because it is easier to explain
Wear a rogaining t-shirt so people ask you what it is
10. It's night time and you need to cross a river. Do you?
Change course - aim for a bridge or ford
Get your team mate to go first
Just jump in and keep going
Work out how deep it is before getting in
Take 10-15 minutes keeping your feet dry (carry shoes or rock-hopping)
11. You end up bleeding at the end of the event. Do you?
Not even notice
Worry how you will look in the office tomorrow
Worry about getting blood on your clothes
Be proud of it and wear it like a badge
12. How do you choose food for a rogaine?
Take something healthy
Take light-weight ordinary food
Just throw in whatever is available
Buy protein bars, gels or similar lightweight specialist food
13. You partner thinks the next control is this way. You disagree. Do you?
Doubt yourself and study the map to consider their suggestion
Stop and explain why you think they are wrong
Go the way they are suggesting
Tell them they are wrong and get them to follow you
14. Your friend is a keen orienteer. Do you?
Unfriend them
Feel superior
Feel sorry for them
Join them
15. Do you know your stride length?
Yes. On flat, up hill and down hill, bush and road
No
Yes, on the flat
What's stride length?
16. What is a valid excuse for missing a rogaine?
There is no such thing
Baby's first birthday
Injury
Wedding anniversay
You set the course
17. It starts to rain heavily during an event. Do you?
Go harder to keep warm
Look for shelter
Pause and put on rain gear
Discuss with team mates with the hope they will pull out
Barely notice
18. The next event is a night one. Do you?
Look forward to it because you love night time navigation
Grin and bear the night time navigation, preferring the day time
Not enter
Enter but spend part of the night in a tent
19. How do you choose footware for your rogaines?
Just wear whatever is rugged
Carefully researched and specifically purchased trail running or bushwalking shoes
Whatever looks good
Dunlop Volleys
your regular running shoes.
20. There's an all night café on the course. Do you?
Avoid it
Stop, eat and sleep
Stop for a good feed and chat
Stop long enough to grab some food, thanks, gotta go!
Time is Up!