Winners Report – Team Brainstormers – 3 Hour

Sally and I had great fun, lots of panoramic views and by running the high country first we only struck the spear grass during the third hour of our adventure.
This was Sally’s’ first bush rogaine and the first I have run in for 18months or so and on arrival I had to get a quick reminder from Mike on how to use the compass. I had in my head put red in the shed and follow Fred, but just needed a reminder of what that meant.
We only had a few minutes to plan and I dont know how others do it but we looked towards a high point scorer and plotted a course around that.
The plan was to run East and collect 18, 65 ,46, 11 then do the West side. On getting to 65 we realised we were making good time so instead of going for 46, we headed for 95 and 70. When we crossed the road we decided not to go for 51 as it looked a bit too undulating to make it back in time, then cleaned up the rest on the East side of the road. The topographical features were easily realised on the ground, so instead of using the compass all the time and following a line we followed the ridges and looked for outstanding topographical features to delineate our travel. This is a fast way to travel, however it is easy in undulating country to take a wrong ridge line. We over-ran 70 by 50 m and took a while to find it and under ran 81 by 50 m and took a while to find it as well but taking a reading from a major point on the map was fairly easy in this country.
We really enjoyed the course it was great country to be looking out over and we went pretty close to maxing out on our abilities.
I am aware in this spear grass country the earlier in the year the less likely to be savaged by the spears. Look forward to the next rogaine.
Jack and Sally
Team Brainstormers