DVOA Results for the 2010 U.S. Rogaining Championships
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Topic created by wilburdeb on Tue Aug 3, 2010 at 6:25 amDVOA members results from the 2010 U.S. Rogaining Championships (CNYO's 20th Annual Rogaine!).
24 Hour event:
Speedy Goats - Greg Balter & Vadim Masalkov - 1st Mens Open (3rd overall)
Forsest Shadows - Zac & Dan Barker - 13th Mens Open (22nd overall)
12 Hour event:
R & B Ramblers - Ron Wood & Bob Meyer - 1st in Mens Vet
S & H - Sandy Fillebrown & Hugh MacMullen - 1st in Mixed Open
2 Guys and a Map - Ron Barron & Chris Hand - 2nd in Mens Vet
6 Hour event:
Off the Map - Bob Fink & Bob Burg - 1st Mens Open
Urban Blight - Dave & Kathy Urban, Mary Plunkett - 1st Mixed Vet
This was a great event that CNYO put on.
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Reply by kathyu on Tue Aug 3, 2010 at 7:36 amand of course, the inevitable snapshots from Kathy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/kathyu/sets/72157594244915604/
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Reply by FredR on Tue Aug 3, 2010 at 7:23 pmAfter looking at the results, I wonder if larger teams have a net advantage in rogains--e.g., more eyeballs looking for controls and maintaining map contact. The two highest teams (that beat our Speedy Goats) had 4 people in them both. Of course, they could have just been really fast and the team size not mattered. The few rogains I've done were always in pairs and my impression was that adding people would tend to slow traveling speed, but maybe that's more than made up for in eyeballs (and brains).
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Reply by Vadim on Tue Aug 3, 2010 at 9:03 pmIn general, the more members in the team, the more time is necessary for breaks and needed stops, etc. However it's not a definite statement.
This year CNYO pushed Rogaine event to the next level and so far it was the best event I've attended: (1) the map was printed on one (not multiple) sheets of paper; (2) checkpoints locations were fair enough; (3) flags were hang high. These are at least several things making this event outstanding. And the most pleasant thing was a single sheet map!!! Even at World Rogaining Championships (2004, 2008) we had to glue together multiple pages.
Our team, Speedy Goats, had a good chances of winning, but hamstring injury week before and 2 hours into the race made it less possible. We managed to keep going throughout the course and stick to our original plan of getting ALL checkpoints making 2 loops of 70+ and 50+ km respectively. We adjusted our plan due to slower speed after repeated injury (down to power walking only) by dropping one checkpoint (70 points) and running out of luck at another checkpoint (50 points) during deep night on the steep hillside. After coming back to hash-house early in the morning for the warm food we adjusted out plan again because it was clear at that point we can't get them all. We did our best, making no more than 15-20 min. of mistakes for the whole race and we lost to one of the best adventure running teams in US. We'll be ready for another battle next year if they decide to come again. -
Reply by Sandy on Wed Aug 4, 2010 at 7:56 amI agree. The map and course setting were terrific. And the Speedy Goats were great. You'll get em next time!
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Reply by hughmac4 on Thu Aug 5, 2010 at 9:02 pmGood fun, and great to hang out with everyone. The Hash House was superb, with fresh-cooked food coming off the grill/griddle constantly!
That map was awesome for a 1:30K. Here is the course (be warned, it's a 7.8MB PDF!!):
http://cnyo.us.orienteering.org/2010/images/2010_US_ROGAINE_Championships_map.pdf
A few more pics: http://macmullan.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=5262 -
Reply by o-maps on Fri Aug 6, 2010 at 9:49 amOMG! What a gorgeous map! And even open fields and dense vegetation? Where's the fun in that? I may have to reconsider my stance on rogaines...
Thanks for posting. Maybe next year, we ought to put the CNYO rogaine on our schedule ans see if we can get an even bigger DVOA contigent going... -
Reply by edscott on Fri Aug 6, 2010 at 10:43 amJust doing some "armchair Rogaining".. Were you allowed to cross the red property boundaries if you stayed on marked roads or trails? For example, from 31 to 42 was it necessary to climb around the red boundary or could the trail and farm lane be used?
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Reply by Sandy on Fri Aug 6, 2010 at 11:55 amNote that the green colors were not used in quite the same way as on a regular O map with the green meaning conifer trees and not having any relation to runnability. But when the delineation between white and green was precise, it did provide very good navigational aids.
All trails and roads thorugh private property were considered public access except if crossed out. You were not supposed to go on any "grey" contour land - they greyed out the contours in the private areas. -
Reply by edscott on Fri Aug 6, 2010 at 12:13 pmOK. Trail usage and the green designation will certainly change my armchair routes.
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Reply by chand on Sat Aug 7, 2010 at 9:50 pm
I agree with all the above - it was an excellent event in all aspects. And the terrain was awesome. The streams were easy enough to cross and I saw perhaps one tiny poison ivy plant in 12 hours.
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Reply by chand on Sun Aug 8, 2010 at 4:52 pm
And another thing...the squirrelly boundary lines that weave all over the place were well marked in reality - yellow dots every 20 yards or so on trees and property owners had "No trespassing" signs facing them - it made for awesome handrails and catches. We used the boundary markers over and over again.
