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Next Generation Twilight Rogaine Series Event 2

The event this week was based in Hansen Park with a sprint loop around the streets and then a loop up Mt Vernon. Unlike the previous weeks, I finally had a chance to do the rogaine alone and see what I was capable of since breaking my ribs.

It started off great, with me leading around one half of the sprint loop, then once up on the hill I was navigating well just like the previous week. I made the decision to head out to a lone 70 pointer expecting it to be relatively easy to find due to the location on a fence line. However, once getting there with a small group of others it became apparent that the check point wasn’t where it was supposed to be. While the others made the decision to not waste any more time and head back to find other points, I made the decision to traverse along the hill to the next fence line as I had a suspicion it had simply been placed on the wrong one. Sure enough the check point was right there and I quickly continued up the hill to grab more points.
Unfortunately once at my highest point I got a bit greedy and continued out to try and grab more points when I should have checked the time and started running back to the finish. Once almost to the next lot of points I checked the time and realised I was going to be mega late so started sprinting back to the finish as fast as I could without collecting any points on the way. I got back to the finish 11 minutes late but had managed to collect enough points that I still managed to win the 1 hour event.

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