Auckland SS Rogaine Orienteering Championships - 26 August, 2010
Rogaine is the sport of long distance cross country navigation and is also a backronym for "Rugged Outdoor Group Activity Involving Navigation and Endurance".
Teams of two visit as many checkpoints as possible in the 90 minutes allowed. These checkpoints have different values depending on the level of difficulty in reaching them and they may be visited in any order with the winning team accumulating the highest points. Teamwork, endurance, strategy and route selection are all elements of Rogaining.
This year's
Championships were held at Shakespear Regional Park,
Whangaparaoa and MAGS was represented by seven teams. Matthew
Milner & Matthew Russell were first in the Senior Boys
& Kieran Woods & Matthew Battley won the Intermediate
Boys.
Other results were:
4th Rosalie Sinclair & Jennifer Dunkley Senior Girls
7th Oliver Brooks & Sam Nicholson Intermediate Boys
10th Fraser Bourne & Liam Robertson Intermediate Boys
11th Don Wu & Robbie Harrison Intermediate Boys
12th Jared Wilson & Caderyn Alsweiler Intermediate
Boys
Click
here
for reports on the five other orienteering competitions
held this year.
From left: Matthew Battley, Matthew Russell, Rosalie Sinclair, Matthew Milner, Kieran Woods, Molly Swanson
