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2024 Australasian Championships
Less than four weeks to go until entries close in this year's Australasian Rogaining Championships!
Merchandise orders are also due by Friday 16th August for pickup at the event.
Some states are extremely poorly represented at the moment! Tassie is outperforming, but where are the Victorians and New South Welshpeople!?
 
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20th World Rogaining Championships Awarded to Australia
Australia has been awarded the 2027 World Rogaining Championships with a unanimous vote. Congratulations to the bid team, and especially Craig Colwell who put a lot of effort in to get us to this point.
We look forward to welcoming the world to the Flinders Ranges in September 2027!
Here is the winning bid document: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zuC9atgBhNQGY092Re35iL5PfoS0_93J/view?usp=sharing 
 
NAMSF Bursaries to attend the 2024 Intervarsity Rogaining Championships are still available
There are still NAMSF travel bursaries available for university teams to compete at the Australian Intervarsity Rogaining Championships to be held with the ARC in WA in September. Information is available on the ARC website, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need more information. 
 
ARA AGM to be held on 19th August
The ARA AGM will be held on Monday evening 19th August at 7:30pm AEST via Skype.
If you have items for the agenda, please get in touch with your state/territory President or contact the ARA Secretary, Stephen Gray This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
 
ARA Grant Applications
Grant applications are due by the end of November: https://rogaine.asn.au/documents/policy/grant-policy 
 
National Calendar: https://rogaine.asn.au/events
Next European Championships:  17-18 August https://erc2024.rogain.ee/
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- Entries are now open for the 2024 Australasian Championships! Remember, this event is open to all and you don't need to be an elite to enjoy a high quality course with like-minded people from all over Australia.
The webpage also now includes some additional information on the event, and some photos from the course. Please promote this event to the other members of your state/territory club, and get your flights booked!
https://wa.rogaine.asn.au/index.php/events/744-2024-australasian-rogaine-champs
We would love to see a much higher representation of easterners than at previous ARCs held in WA. 
Here is a Facebook reel https://www.facebook.com/share/r/syjyXP7ipSZE4zPy/
and post https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Fc5e3AxRBuzQmDiM/
for you to share among your networks
 
- The ARA submitted a proposal to host the 20th World Rogaining Championships in 2027, with SARA leading the bid team. Big thanks to Craig Colwell for both the effort he put into working up the proposal and also for offering to lead the organisation of the event. All of the State and Territory rogaining clubs contributed to the bid and will have important roles to play in supporting SARA to deliver the event. The International Rogaining Federation Council is now considering our bid (no others were received) and we should hear back in mid-July.
News item: https://www.sleepmonsters.com/news.php?article_id=7238
 
- There are NAMSF travel bursaries available for university teams to compete at the Australian Intervarsity Rogaining Championships to be held with the ARC in WA in September. Information is available on the ARC website, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need more information. We would like to find and confirm the recipients of the bursaries by the end of June, so time is short.

- Here is the national calendar, lots of great events coming up across Australia:
https://rogaine.asn.au/events

- VRA have been publishing quite a few of their recent training events to their website:
https://rogainevic.org.au/training/
 
- QRA recently held a map making workshop, where participants used a recently developed basemap that covers all of the usual rogaining areas in SE Qld to lay out a course and make a georeferenced PDF using free QGIS software. Resources are being collated and will be made available to all mapmakers on the QRA website shortly. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information. You can also join the map making Google Group.
 
- the new software that has been developed for the Navlight system has now been trialled at events in WA, SA and Qld and is a lot more intuitive and user-friendly than the previous software. Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would also like to try it out on your local events.
 
- if the results from your events aren't being published on rogaine-results.com, they should be! It's a great service provided by Greig Hamilton, and he's happy to publish results from any Navlight-based event, providing you with detailed analysis of team routes, leg statistics, GPS upload and much more. Contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for more information.

- the Australian Rogaining Association AGM will be held by Skype in mid-August 2024. Contact your local committee if you would like to raise any agenda items.
 

- The 2025 World Rogaining Championships will be held in Spain on 5-6 July 2025. Limited information is available at this stage:
https://www.rogaining.com/index.php?option=com_jevents&task=icalrepeat.detail&evid=461&Itemid=105&year=2025&month=07&day=05&title=2025-world-rogaining-championships&uid=ff12efb5e16e8cbd35bb16cb6a08d4a0&catids=13

- The 2024 European Rogaining Championships will be held in Estonia in August:
https://erc2024.rogain.ee/

Cheers, Paul 
 
Paul Guard
ARA President
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Australian rogainers well represented across age categories at the Australasian Rogaining Champs at Lake Tekapo on 16-17 December. Teams on the podium were Julie Quinn and David Baldwin (1st mixed open and veteran, 4th overall), Jeannie and Peggy Douglass (1st women’s ultravets, 2nd supervets), Bella Lilford, Chloe Woodburn and Abby Kidson (1st women’s youth), Richard Robinson and Viv Prince (2nd mixed ultravets, 3rd supervets), Paul Guard and Sally Lochhead (3rd mixed veterans), Sue Clarke and Walter Kelemen (3rd mixed ultravets) and E Wen Wong and Thomas James (3rd mixed youth). A good number of other teams made the trip across the Tasman for the event.
 
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The Mysterious Traveller Rogaine

Entries are now Open! Remember - this event is open to everyone - you don't need to be an elite. Come for the high-quality course and great company.

The 2024 Australasian Rogaine Championships will be hosted in WA on the weekend of 7th and 8th September 2024.

Where is the Mysterious Traveller?  A mask, an old logging village, a Melburnian forester, and ochre springs.  We may need to navigate complex river valleys (150m a.s.l. to 300m a.s.l.).  There may be a few pines, but we are mostly in stunning Jarrah - Marri - Blackbutt forest.  We leave the open Nannup farmlands of 2016 far behind. We have a very easy trip here - less than 3hrs southish of Perth and less than 1hr Bunbury.  For all travellers, far, near, mysterious or not, the Event Bus will take you on a magical tour from the airport to the event via a replenishing town.  The Setting and Vetting team look forward to showing you some topographical mysteries!

For more information, including the schedule for buses from Perth Airport, please visit https://wa.rogaine.asn.au/index.php/events/744-2024-australasian-rogaine-champs

 

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The 2023 Australian Rogaining Championships were held on Wiradjuri country in Goobang National Park and adjacent private land on 30th September/1st October. NSWRA did a great job organising the event in challenging conditions with temperatures over 30 degrees on Saturday and Sunday.

The overall and mixed winners were Julie Quinn and David Baldwin (ACT), second and winning mens team were Eric Lambers (VIC), Paul Monks (VIC) and Tim Cochrane (ACT). First womens team were Shelley Bambrook and Deanna Blegg (VIC).
The Intervarsity Championships was won by the team of Xavier Scott and Will Whittington and  from University of Tasmania. The Interstate Challenge Trophy was a tie between NSW and ACT.

Organiser was Trevor Gollan, and the course setters were David Williams and Ronny Taib. The event website with results, analysis and photos is: nswrogaining.org/2023-aus-champs.

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Australians performed outstandingly at the 2023 World Rogaining Championship held on 29/30 July at Lake Tahoe, California, USA. A superb performance from the "Dream Team" of Joanna George, Abigail George and Meredith Norman to again win Womens’ Under 23. Two Aussie teams Rod Gray and Geoff Lawford, Richard Robinson and Vivienne Prince, took home 2 trophies, won against much younger competitors.
The Northstar ski resort was surrounded by 250sq km of hilly pine forest from 1900 to 2600 metres elevation. Most teams survived the expected hot dry summer weather during daytime and moved faster in the night, especially with the help of the reflective controls.
The top teams overall were from Estonia, Spain, Latvia, USA and Ukraine. The following were the Australian placings:

  • Joanna George, Abigail George, Meredith Norman - 1st Women Under 23
  • Gill Fowler, Elizabeth Dornom – 1st Women Veteran
  • Thorlene Egerton, Christine Brown – 1st Women Super Veteran, 2nd Women Veteran
  • Rod Gray, Geoff Lawford – 1st Men Ultra Veteran, 1st Men Super Veteran
  • Richard Robinson, Vivienne Prince (NZ) – 1st Mixed Ultra Veteran, 1st Mixed Super Veteran
  • David Baldwin, Julie Quinn – 2nd Mixed Veteran
  • Sharon Crawford, Robin Spriggs (USA) – 2nd Women Ultra Veteran
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