The day started early 4.45 am. We arrived at the hash house 20km up the Awatere Valley behind Seddon at 7.30.
When we set off we were the only ones to go our route. That made us a little nervous. We didnt have the best start and realised that we should have planned our route a little different, approaching a high scoring control from a better angle.
The rest of the day went pretty well. Our nav wasnt real sharp, but we managed to sneak ahead of a few of the other teams to win. I think the 2 greatest contributors to that were our grunt over nav finesse approach, and Nathan Faavae being unlucky enough to pick 3 controls that were misplaced inhis route. After spending some time looking for them he'd had enough.
Highlights of the day were:
- Fog lifting to reveal an awesome day as we started,
- Coming across other rogainers while I was in full pursuit of a small herd of sheep (I was within a metre of catching the bastards!)
- Almost catching a turkey for dinner
- Seeing about 10 bulls panic and run through a fence
- Mooning a helicopter that was hovering at our level about 100m away
- Earning a pie for the ride home!
Rogaines are fun.
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