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Dan Chissick - Israel - Rogaine route choice

Rogaine route choice

The route choice in the rogaine wasnt easy, but could have been more complicated. The situation was as follows:1. There were 36 controls, worth various amounts of points.2. We were given 12 hours to finish, starting at midnight.3. The maps were not handed out before the start.4. Each team had…
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to pass through the start between 5:30 and 6:30.5. Map-reading light would be at around 6:20.We were totally confident that the time would be enough to collect all the controls over such a small area (35 km2), so we could disregard their points value. We also estimated that we could cover 4km/hr at straight line pace, compared to 5km/hr in the previous rogaines - because of the longer distance and the darkness.So this was our route:(thick line = fence, dashed line = main road, second number = control code) The plan was to finish the northern part, which has more…

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