Auckland Night Street Rogaine - Wed 2 June 2010 Results

The weather gods were on our side last night to turn on a beautiful evening for exploring the streets of Ellerslie and rather further afield. We were most impressed at the effort all the competitors put in, heading for the far reaches of the map and not even being daunted by a visit to the trig on Mt Wellington (you would not have expected us to be able to resist putting a control there, now would you!!) We decided that was the one control we could place during the day yesterday when it was just beautiful up there but we were assured by at least one competitor that it was still lovely at 9pm!

The maximum points on offer were720 so you will see from the results that some of the 3 hour competitors only missed visiting a small number – well done indeed!

Our very warm thanks to Pete and Jen for so kindly allowing us to use their home as a starting place – it makes a huge difference to have an area like their car port, with shelter and light, to be able to gather in.

This was the final in this series of street events but there is plenty more to come! In the city we have a series  of Saturday afternoon ‘sprints’ (ie courses of 2-3km) in July and then another night street series in September before Summer Series returns once again at the end of October. In the forest, on Sundays there are events about every second weekend all through winter/spring. The pine forest is just lovely in winter as it remains dry underfoot when the rest of the world has turned to mud. Keep watching the website for details of the events to come.