Rogaine; Spring 24 hour "Ham & Mustard" - Competing with Shane

[samvara]

Yay! I’ll just update while waiting for food to cook since inexplicably I can’t just suck nutrient energy out of people’s brains.

Did 45 km-ish 49.65km and came 46th overall with 1740 points. In terms of distance covered this is the furthest I’ve ever been able to go and I’m extremely pleased with it. I’m also exhausted and sore and thinking how nice it would be to stay in bed tomorrow and just hobble gently around the house looking for food at intervals.

We drove down on the Friday night and camped, there was a comforting fire and people telling stories about past vetting disasters and Rogaines wot I have done before.

Saturday dawned foggy which gradually burnt away to reveal blue skies with the odd drift of cloud.

	Me, my pink hiking socks and Lambert
	Fog over the hills

We planned an ambitious route we were happy with and headed out at midday with 100+ other teams in high spirits. The first six hours were excellent with good navigation and steady hiking. The weather was perfect, not too cold, a fair amount of cloud and not a lot of moonlight but we were not able to do a lot of night navigating on account of having done 30km by this point, me being exhausted, total blood sugar crash and a tendency ignore Mr Compass in favour of having no sense of direction at all. Lesson learnt, Mr Compass is Right. We packed it in about 11pm and headed back to the hash house where a man refused to give me an egg, darn B. and his unnatural egg hoarding ways.I sat next to the massive fire with a cheese toastie and some hash browns, soaking up the heat and listening to tales of white water rafting in Tasmania then crawled into my tent for some sleep.

Sunday dawned clear and we headed out shortly before seven, while we were moving a lot slower (averaging maybe 3km/hr) due to my being utterly exhausted the previous night, we managed to pick up controls steadily and get back with 20 minutes to spare. It turns out the top three teams all cleared the course, with the first team getting in at 8am (Ricky and Steve) four hours early, the second at 10am (Wil and Mark) and the third at 11:30am (Jim and Gary). Yea Gods.

Based on what I now know about piggeries I'm also giving up pork until such a time as I can source free range dead pig.

Comments

[zebra363.livejournal.com]

45km in 24 hours, wow. That's a long way!

Based on what I now know about piggeries I'm also giving up pork until such a time as I can source free range dead pig.

Apparently the market in Subiaco that sells organic meat doesn't do pork at all since it can't find a supplier that produces it acceptably (not that I'm sure how highly welfare ranks into their criteria).

At the Peter Singer/Animals Australia lecture I went to a couple of months ago, they said that about a third of Australian pork was produced without using sow stalls. One of the articles at the Save Babe (http://www.savebabe.com/) site says the "Great Southern Piggery" in WA has the largest outdoor herd in the world, but I don't know where they are.

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling it! I'm in good nick though, only four blisters and two of them are on toes that always blister and don't really count. I'll be staying home today and having a hot bath. I think I need to move around very slowly for a bit and contemplate my laundry.

Thanks for the advice on pork; I'll look around and if I can't find anything, well, no more buying bacon then.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the rogain, but, but... no bacon? I think I'll need to be preached at a lot before I could get my morals to beat my tastebuds on that one ;)

Have you guys got X3 downloaded? I need to do some fact-checking for a fic at some point. (Fear my type A personality!)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

It's not a hard choice really. I have no problem with things dying so that I can eat them, but I do have problems with their leading terrible lives prior to my eating them. That's why I get free range eggs and try to buy free range chickens. It's just extending that care to pigs as well.

I shall shortly; does that mean I can have the pleasure of your company in the near future? Or at least the pleasure of you mumbling nearby?

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

There shall be much mumbling! Also possibly the 'staying the night mid week' type company (It takes the headache out of transport)?

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

You are always welcome; am tutoring Thursday night (6.00-7.00) - although even if you want to come over then you can work on your mumbling.

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Would Wednesday night be good for you? [grin]

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

Definitely!

[maharetr.livejournal.com]

Yay! I shall be around between 4-5pm ish. I have most of the ingredients for dessert. (you wouldn't happene to have nutmeg, would you? :D)

[black-samvara.livejournal.com]

I have nutmeg!