On the weekend I completed a 12 hour rogaine with Fitzy and Shenandoah. Mark, Ash and Steve formed another team and Neil, Andrew and Andre formed the third team. In total there were over 150 teams and we finished in 77th position which we were happy with.

Rogaining is the sport of cross country navigation. You take a compass and are given a topographical map that's marked with control points of different point values, and map a course collecting as many points as you can in a given time period.

Our course took us north through thick bush scrub. With this being the first event for all the members of my team we presumed this was standard. In fact, quite a lot of people avoided this area and instead focussed on the pine plantation to the south. In hindsight we should have done the same and spent less time hacking through dense bush.

With it being 12 hours long and starting at 10AM we were prepared for trekking in the dark, but when Adam suffered some severe knee blow-outs at about 6PM we knew we were in trouble. The plan quickly became "get back to the hash house ASAP". The hash house is a big tent full of delicious, hot food. We liked the hash house.

Mark's team came in about 40-something, and Neil's team was 20-something (going from my poor memory). The results will be online soon.

The weather was very good to us, with the only rain happening early in the last morning - we camped Friday night before the event and again on Saturday night after the event, leaving Sunday morning.

My back is still quite sore, and sitting on the floor at my MacBook doesn't help it. Maybe I should clear my desk off and use that instead?

Everyone had fun and I'd definitely do it again, just not for another six months or so :)