Mt Pisa Rogaine 2009 Results and Pic’s

Hello fellow Rogainers – I hope you are all feeling pleased with your efforts on Saturday – Terry and I thought the standard of competition was excellent, with a lot of first timers scoring incredibly well.  I believe it takes at least 3 Rogaine’s to get into accurate Navigation.

Our next Rogaine (yet TBC) but more than likely to be at the Snow Farm/SHPG on 31 October or 7 November.  There could still be snow issues at this time of the year which may change our plans.  If this is an issue the venue is likely to change rather than the date.

There may also be a 3hr Rogaine early October as a fundraiser to assist local athlete Katherine Eustace with her endeavours to represent New Zealand in Skeleton Racing. This will be an excellent opportunity for beginners to get involved with the sport and at the same time help Katherine to reach her goals.  We will have the details for this out soon.

Keep an eye on our website as we are due to launch another exciting event to stimulate and excite the imagination.

Thanks heaps for making our events so successful.

Keep fit.

Ed and Terry

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Highland Events ‘Rogaine Rules’.

Detailed rules exist, but basically:

No fires, smoking or open flames. Dogs are NOT to be brought to the event. Please respect the landowner’s property and privacy. Their support and cooperation for permitting access to their properties is very generous. We do not in any way wish to jeopardise the fantastic relationship that we have established with the landowners for this event We have a positive reputation with the landowners and the community which we wish to continue.

Absolutley no navigational aids, ie. GPS’s, Altimetres, other than compass and competition map. We will be doing spot checks at race briefing.

Points will be deducted from teams that arriving at the finish after their alloted time – 10 points per minute

Any team going into out of bounds areas will be disqualified.

Competitors travelling on roads must obey normal road rules.

All team members must travel together, within 50 metres of one another at all times. A team shall demonstrate compliance with this requirement to any official or other team on request.

All members of teams must visit the checkpoints and shall simultaneously approach to within 20 metres, and within sight, of each checkpoint for which points are claimed.

You must respect the landowner’s property. Cross fences at posts or climb through the wire. Re-close any gates that are shut. If climbing over a gate, climb over at the hinged end.

You must be responsible for your own wellbeing by having suitable food, water, clothing and equipment with you. Competitors shall not discard any litter.

Plan your course well. Rogaining is as much about careful route choice and navigation as it is about physical endurance.

Note: Neither the organizers nor the landowners accept liability for any accident or injury to participants during the event. The ‘Team Contact’ on the entry form must ensure all team members are aware that they participate at their own risk.

Rogaining ‘code of conduct’

This Code of Conduct is motivated by the following two considerations:

• respect for the property of the Landowners
• assistance for injured people

Land, Property and Stock
Please remember that we are guests of the Landowners and rely on their goodwill for continued access to their property.

1. Leave gates as you found them.
2. Do not crowd stock.
3. Cross fences at gates or major posts, or go through the wires.
4. Do not drop litter of any kind.
5. Avoid houses and stay out of out-of-bound areas.
6. No dogs, guns, fires or smoking.

Safety and Injury

1. Distress call – six or more short whistle blasts at about 1 second intervals, repeated every 1 to 5 minutes, or in reply to a Search call.
2. Search call – one long whistle blast of several seconds.
3. If someone in your team is immobilised, identify your position and send someone to seek help. If possible, leave someone else with the injured person, along with all spare clothing. For urgent assistance, use your whistle to give the distress call.
4. Any team hearing the distress signal MUST offer all assistance required.
5. If someone in your team is injured, but can walk, use your common sense in getting them back to base.

NOTES TO THE CODE

Gates and Stock If you open a gate, your team must close it or identify a person in a following team who will explicitly state that they will close it. If you corner stock, move no closer than 50 metres and find an alternative way round. This is particularly important when the easy way out for the stock is towards you on a track. Drop below the track and sidle around well clear of the stock. Stock in the wrong place at the wrong time of year can easily cost farmers tens of thousands of dollars, and cattle in particular are surprisingly easy to spook, and will readily demolish a good fence, injuring themselves badly on the way. If you cause any damage, it is vital that you report it to the organisers as soon as practicable, so that repairs can be started.Safety Understand the Distress call and the Search call. Serious injury is very rare, but needs urgent action. For the more common injuries where people can still limp, use your common sense. This usually means assisting them to a road and returning to the hash-house.

What you need to bring for Mt. Pisa Rogaine

Compulsory Gear

Clothing. Woollen or polyprop hat and cloves – Three layers of wool or polyprop – Good quality jacket (light nylon will be rejected) – Woolly or polyprop long Johns – Over trousers.

Hardwear. Per person: Head light (working)-  Safety Blanket – Whistle. Per team: First Aid kit.

Other.  (non compulsory)

Food – compass – change of clothes – pens, highlighter – map protector

What your not allowed

Navigational aids (including altimeters) other than compass and the map you will be given.  Anybody caught with illegal equipment will be disqualified and unable to enter any Highland Events events in the future.

Half Marathon and 10k Photos

Sorry it’s taken us so long to get the pic’s up. Finally here they are thanks very much to Jon from MacStudio (ever need some photography or websites built- Jon is your man!)

Feel free to down load them if you like and as a special freebee for the first event if you want a higher res version just flick Terry an email and I’ll send them back to you (there are photos of nearly all of you- some, we may have more photos of you than what’s on this page.

Yes some heads are cut off in these ‘thumbnails’ but when you click on it it’ll come up big and you’ll see the whole pic.