Are you a Serious Rogainer

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 - 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

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!

Are you a Serious Rogainer?

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.