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[rodthehornet]

Found this information on the web.  There is a 8/24hr option on the day.  Teams can be in number from 2-5.  Cost is about $70 which includes food at the station.  There is accommodation available ranging from tents on site, local pub to cabin accommodation.  Camping is included in fee, others are extra.

If anyone has ideas or is keen to give one of these events a go, leave post or PM.  I am keen, particularly on the 8hr, but reading maps and using compasses is not a strong point of mine.

The Hornet

The Turon Gold Rush
April 28
  
The Turon Gold Rush 8/24 hour Rogaine - NSWRA
    
Region:
  
New South Wales
  
Area: NSW Central Tablelands near Lithgow
Venue: Turon Gates
Start Time: 12:00
  
Duration: 2 days
  
Classes: Junior, Male, Female, Mixed, Veterans,  
Suitable For: Novices, Intermediates, Experienced,  
Disciplines: Trail Running/Walking, Mountain Trek/Run, Navigation,  
  
Notes: NSW Rogaining Associations Autumn Rogaine. Event durations of 8 and 24 hour. The terrain ranges from pleasant shady river banks to open forested hills highlighted by distinct features. The course should be "fast" by Rogaine standards. Course includes national park and private property. The course is a 3 hour drive West from Sydney.
  
Organisation: NSW Rogaining Association
Race Director:    Alexa McCauley
Race Planner: Philip Whitten
  
Email: whitten@uow.edu.au
Website: www.nswrogaining.org

Edited by rodthehornet, 26 February 2007 - 07:52 PM.

[Anklestrapper]

Thanks for helping to promote this event Hornet!

As a committee member overseeing Rogaines for NSW, I can can assure you and everybody entering that it will be a well run and challenging event. The 8hr is a good introduction to rogaining with only a couple of hours of night navigation. Of course you can choose to finish earlier in the daylight if you wish.

I'll be entering the 24hr and even in this event you can choose to be out on the course for as long as you want to in that 24hr period.

Hope you can find a partner (or 2, or 3, or 4).

[Mister G]

O Runner and I are paired up for the 24hr...

[Twopennys]

Bugger - only one week after the Hellgate Fat Ass - don't think I could get a leave pass.

Never say never though - where was the phone number for that florist?

[scurry711]

Twopennys, on Feb 27 2007, 07:24 AM, said:

Bugger - only one week after the Hellgate Fat Ass - don't think I could get a leave pass.

Never say never though - where was the phone number for that florist?

2P, sometimes you've just got to stand up for yourself and show em whose boss!
(so let me know the number of the florist as well... )

[Pasty]

There is a               Strathbogie 24 hour / Roving 15 hour in Victroria on 28th April also.
Please see the Victorian Rogaining Association.

[rodthehornet]

Twopennys, on Feb 28 2007, 12:24 AM, said:

Bugger - only one week after the Hellgate Fat Ass - don't think I could get a leave pass.

Never say never though - where was the phone number for that florist?

2P,

If I can get a double leave pass for Hellgate, I am sure you will be in with a chance.  A little creative marketing is required here - days spent roaming the vineyards, nights by the campfire, what loving wife could resist   

The Hornet

[flat feet]

On line entry and paper entry has now opened for this event.

Entry fee is $70.00 for adults and a $10.00 late entry fee kicks in after the 12th April 2007.

We will be using Navlight for scoring with control cards.

The organisers describe the course as follows-

Terrain and map: The fast terrain ranges from
pleasant shady river banks to open forested hills
highlighted by distinct features. About 2/3 rds of
the course is dry eucalypt forest with the
remainder being cleared farmland. The map is a
1:25 000 topographic map with 10 m contours.
Ruins from the Gold rushes 150 years ago can be
found over most of the course.

[flat feet]

By the way Mr G missed you at 7WRC.

Heard when I arrived that you had dropped out!

The Barrington Tops Rogaine may take place one day?!

[Run 2 Become]

Hmm the old double leave pass trick ehhh?

Will have to plan in advance for that....well theres no time like the present.

[pipi]

Feel free to use this forum to ask any questions regarding the Turon Gold Rush 8/24 hour Rogaine.

I will endeavour to answer all queries.

Phil

One of the three organisers/course setters of the Rogaine

[pipi]

There is just one week left before the entry fee increase for the Rogaine.

The entry fee for the Turon Gold Rush 8/24 hour rogaine increases after the 12/4/07.

Entries are now coming in fast.  There should be some strong competition to take out the event categories.

Phil

[pipi]

Entries for the Turon Gold Rush close in two days time. Thursday the 19th of April is the last day for entries.

We currently have about 280 people entered.

Phil

[Run 2 Become]

Hey Phil,
I would love to enter but can't find a team mate at this stage!
Anyone who wants to have a good time and get some training in would be great....

ps. 8hrs or 24hrs at a stretch
pss. Would it be a bad idea to enter and ask around on the day?
I did this once already and ran with a vets team which was fun but not too challenging!

Cheers Adrian

[nikolay]

Hi Run 2 Become,
I'm also looking for a team mate for this event.
I've sent you an email with my phone number and email address.

[Run 2 Become]

Nikolay and myself have teamed up,entered and i'm excited to be doing this event!!

Cheers R2B

[pipi]

There has been a large number of entries in the Rogaine, with 349 people entered.  

The weather forecast includes some wet and cold - so please come prepared.

I will be uncontactabel from tomorrow morning (Wednesday).

Hope to see some you at the Rogaine.

Phil

[Mister G]

I am very tired today.

Dave more or less towed me around the course, which featured some wonderful views, steep climbs and descents and more or less no scrub to push through, except for the odd creek choked with nettles or blackberry. There was some light rain but the weather was pretty good overall, temp never dropped below 10 degrees I think, although it was quite cool on the open ridges when the wind blew.

We made a couple of mistakes at night which cost us time, the worst was probably wondering why we couldn't find 66 until we realised the ridge we were walking on was heading east, not south... we also lost quite a bit of time following a creekbed in the middle of the night which proved to be very slow going, but made that decision based on the fact that we had followed several creeks earlier and they were quite fast going....

Physically I am not too bad today, one blister but am quite tired. Dave was suffering from trashed feet in the final hours as sleep deprivation started to affect me and I had to take a 5 minute doze just before dawn on Sunday to combat bouts of hallucinations and microsleeps.

Came 15th of 67 teams. There was a bit of a Striders gathering out there, apart from Dave and myself there were also Messrs Worswick and Mackay (2nd overall), Dickyboy and Jacqui, and Warwick and Melissa Selby.

Good training for Western States.

How did everyone else go?

[nikolay]

Thank Phil for setting such a great course! I loved it!

Did the 8h with Run 2 Become. Used my legs more than my head which led to some mistakes, fortunately R2B was quite alert and we got almost all the controls we wanted. Didn't do much running (probably less than 1h in total) because the terrain was very hilly, but I don't regret that at all - just loved the bush-bashing, climbing up and going down the steep hills, the views, getting lost few times. And the weather was perfect. 8h were definitely not enough for me, so next time I'll try to organise myself and do the full 24h option.

Thanks R2B for being such a good company, for the good navigation skills and for providing your car to get to the rogaine.

[flat feet]

Amongst the first arrivals on Friday afternoon a little wet and cold though the geese and horses amused the children.

Gained two tenants Friday evening (hello Nihal and Richard thanks for keeping the children amused).

Listend to a fine talk from Colin, a local, about the history of the local area.  That got two children to sleep.

Entered as usual with the children and wife in the 24 hour

One child fell asleep fifteen minutes before the start so we started about 1315 in the 24 hour.  Typical for us.

Had a pleasant stroll to control 63 and then 43.  Babby stroller got a work out along with my shoulders.

Discoverd that Navlight has an extra bonus.  The children can punch the same control as many times as they like! Very important.

Caught up with some old rogaining friends near 63.  Maurice and Peter had escaped from the Hash House.

The walk up the hill to 43 was everthing that I love about the outdoors (rogaining).  West facing late afternoon sunlight in a white gum forest with no undergrowth lovely.  Kids chatting and teasing each other (and not asking me to carry them!)

I have some photos and videos of this that I'll post to here and You Tube when I have some bandwidth again.

Trevor and crew put on a great meal.

Could not get radio reception for the cricket.  Oh well.

Richard and Nihal stole in in the early hours for a little sleep.  They had two good sessions on the course.

Louis and Sophia (my eldest two) woke at 0600 Sunday asking if Nihal and Richard had been back.  Still asleep I was explaing to them that Richard and Nihal had left already during which Nihal pointed out that she was still there though just leaving, leaving more happy children.

Headed out west from the Hash House into open farm land under a sunny occassionally cloudy sky with the odd sun shower with a slight southerly blowing collected two or three more controls.  Amazing how slow you are when 4 and 6 year olds are walking.

Part way home Louis (6 years) bolted for home with about 2 kilometres to go.  Not necessarily happy as there was the possibility of cars using the road however he was away before I knew it.

Will use that to see if he wants to try some cross country races.

Checked out the results at the end to see that there had been some competitive categories.

Two 8 hour teams where benighted Saturday night and returned to the Hash house Sunday morning with no harm done.  Though some extra stress for the organising team.

Twenty four event also had some competitve results.  More on that later.

More of those red 7WRC long sleeve t shirts rose from the dead to be handed out as prizes.  Still have not given them all away.  Not many XXL (really XXXL shirts) rogainers.  Looks like the Coonabarabran footy team will soon have some warm up shirts.

Did not get the chance to introduce myself to any CR's on the weekend.  One day.

Thanks to Phil, Alexa, Mike and others for a fine event.  Thanks also to the landowners-private and public-who generously provided access.

Turon Gates looks like a return visit maybe in order.

Finished last as usual.

Ingrid the 17 month old had the final say scream on the drive home.  The other two must have told her about their song from April 2006, to any tune, "we are never going rogaining again" followed by great giggles and requests for more play grounds.

Edited by flat feet, 30 April 2007 - 11:08 PM.

[Dave]

I had a great time out there on what was a very scenic area.

As Mr G mentioned we did ok other than a couple of oops' that cost us both time and points in the dark of the night. This was my first 24hr where I went all the way to the end, that last one we had to pull out at around 3am as one of the team came down with ITB.

The rocky terrain did eventually take a toll on my feet but othet than that I have pulled up surprsingly well.

Most amusing/memorable points
- at around 2am as we were crossing from WD3 to control 48, not having seen any other teams out on the course for some time finally some lights headed our way. The second group were 2 females who asked us if we had seen #48, and I mentioned that I believed they had passed it about a km ago, expecting them to maybe turn around and follow us but they said nothing and just kept walking, only asking if there was a road to the water drop
- Mr G slipping into microsleeps as we headed towards the ANC, and hallucinating, eventually opting to lie down on the grass by the side of the track for a snooze
- finally arriving at the ANC, at dawn, only to find most food gone with only bannanas and cake left!

Some great lessons learned for the next time!

[Rooz]

Hi All,

I entered the rogaine with my sister. We had a great time and are looking forward to entering another.

I'm not sure about the accuracy of the results posted on the website? They indicate my sister and I came third in the Open Women's division. But we are novices, were quite slow, and according to the posted interim results, certainly didn't have as many points as many of the other women's teams. How did everyone else determine their results?

[Baldylocks]

What a great event! Very well set course with some quite tricky to find controls - #92 and #103 were both challenging little side spurs approached from above. We got thoroughly confused at #94, not helped by the fact the flag was behind the tree trunk and could only be seen from about 5m away!

We did a loop of 15 controls travelling light out west then north of HH to start - that was an enormous climb up to the top of the hill, and the "track" marked along the top turned out to be an extremely rough fire break, barely possible to jog along it. Pretty cruel to only have 2 x 60 point controls up there for all that hard work. Pleased to get through that in under 5 hours and Alex slugged down a quick cup of cold coffee at the HH on the way through to pick up our packs for the night. Headed down the west side to W3 - got there about 8pm, knew we had no chance of cleaning the course by then. Totally suckered into going to #85 - 250m descent then same climb out of it to #48! How stupid were we?!? Overshot #92 jogging down the track but found it fairly easily once we realized. Started dropping a few controls from our plan and got to the ANC about 5am. Disappointing food - we'd been hanging out for hot soup and toasties after the fantastic ANC last year at Goobang. Headed on along river then the last big climb up onto the hill and along to W2. Saw Mr G and Dave on the road to #73, then again heading down the valley to #83. Dropped packs at #51 for a trot up the river to Turon Gates - beautiful spot! Just enough time to get #64 on the way back to HH.

Hope the Navlight splits will be on the website at some time soon. Disappointed not to get a print out at the finish. Food afterwards was awesome! Made up for the ANC and then some!

[pipi]

Great to get some feedback about the Rogaine.

All three of the organisers/course setters have learnt a lot already, but hope to learn more from competitors comments.  For the record, apart from flag collection and admin help, none of the course setters/organisers have helped to organise or set a rogaine course previously.

I would like to apologise for marking the firebreak in the Northern part of the course (between 40, 61 and 60) as a firetrail.  It was an oversight.  It was also a signigicant contributor to the two 8 hour teams that stayed out on the course throughout the night.

It was disappointing not to provide immediate NavLight results.  Hopefully they will be made available in the near future.

Phil

[Run 2 Become]

Nikolay and myself had a blast out there!
I think the course was very challenging and the nighttime component for the 8hr was a lot of food for thought after getting just 2 controls (with perhaps some outstanding luck!)

Covered some serious ground and once again i realised that being able to move quickly was only a small part of the game!
We chose what in hindsight were some of the hardest controls and were lucky to get all but three of the controls we planned once we had established our pace.

Our biggest problems were the confusion on that pesky ridge where i insisted that that while definately cleared land was a trail as marked!!
Felt a little lost and therefore skipped 60? and 62? to head back towards the HH and safety!
Couldnt find the 70ptr in amongst the gullies and back at HH we found many others had problems with this one around dusk.

Went and got a few more around the creeks in the darkness before jogging back along the roads with many ppl asking why we didnt need lights while simultaneously shining their headlamps in our eyes!!

All in all congratulations to the course setters and volunteers who did a top job and commiserations to Trevor at the Hash House who found himself in the unenviable position of having the Kitchen running out of food as the hoards descended pillaging all before them...