Santa brought presents for everyone at the OHV Christmas Rogaine.
Santa brought presents for everyone at the OHV Christmas Rogaine.
The start of the Pencarrow Rogaine was a fantastic sight – 77 Bikers and 3 Runners heading south along Wellington’s east coast from Eastbourne in torrential rain and gale force winds. 80 participants in 39 teams braved the conditions. A few less hardy (or more sensible souls) decided to stay home – there were 117 pre registrations. You will be pleased to hear that all those that did not turn up received a full refund!
Arriving at the Pencarrow Lakes after being blown along the coast – competitors received the real map. From here about a third carried on on their bikes (taking a 10% penalty) while the others left their bikes and headed off on foot.
Control placement seemed to be pretty good as there were no complaints at the end.
However the norwest wind did not relent for the 6km journey back to the start for the four hour Saturday afternoon event – meaning many teams were late back. Two teams ran the whole way with Todd Oates commenting that he was running past bikers on the return journey.
The results were interesting with two biking teams scoring the highest gross points.
Simon Kennett and John Randal top scoring at 2020 and Ant and Tom Bradshaw second at 1950. However once they were penalised 10% for using their Bikes around the Lakes block, they were relegated to 4th and 6th overall.
Winners on the day were Dave King and Mark Hearfield with 1910 and Anton Marsden and Gerry Whitehouse not far behind on 1850. First mixed (and third overall) was the ever present Debbie Mansfield and Steve Wagner on 1820. First women were Mary McBride and Hazel Bidmead on 1680.
However the performances of the day were the teams with children in them. The Gulley family had an 8 and 9 year old in their team. The Barnes family in three teams had four children between 9 and 15, and the Visser Fees had an 11 year old. The conditions at the start were atrocious and it really was a battle coming back into the gale force winds – very impressive that these guys and girls got out there and stuck with it. They helped very effectively with the devouring of 50 pizzas at the end - in the sun which had meantime come out!
Thanks to the Hutt Valley Mountain Bike Club for the use of their tent and Matt Smillie for marshalling. Special thanks are also due to Michael Wood for the superb job he does with our mapping. Every rogaine and MTBO event in Wellington, he is the one that spends hours pouring over the map making corrections, putting in the circles and producing the map for the organisers. The maps we use here in Wgtn are of an incredibly high standard – thanks to Michael’s efforts. We saw a good example of it today – map one being our old style topo map, and map two the super rogaine map produced by Michael for OHV.
Finally thanks to all 80 of you that got out there today. Club event organisers do it for the love of it. The best possible feedback we can receive is lots of keen people getting out there and having fun and competing on the event we put on.
Mike Sheridan
Pl Category Team Name R/B Fin Gross Penalty Score
1 1st Dave King Mark Hearfield Run 17:42:30 1910 0 1910
2 2nd Gerry Whitehouse Anton Marsden Run 17:59:40 1850 0 1850
3 1st mix Debbie Mansfield Steve Wagner Run 18:03:35 1860 40 1820
4 1st Bike Simon Kennett John Randal Bike 17:53:30 2020 202 1818
5 Mick Finn Greg Thurlow Run 18:01:56 1820 20 1800
6 2nd Bike Tom Bradshaw Ant Bradshaw Bike 17:56:20 1950 195 1755
7 2nd mix Ian Bowie Rebecca Wright Run 17:50:40 1730 0 1730
8 Michael Wood Graeme Silcock Run 17:48:25 1710 0 1710
9 Paul Chaplow Barryn Westfield Colin Slater Bike 17:50:40 1870 187 1683
10 1st wom Mary McBride Hazel Bidmead Run 17:56:10 1680 0 1680
11 Allan Stowell Owen Rouse Michelle van Looy Run 17:52:50 1610 0 1610
12 Lost in Space: Murray Sim Jenny Cassie Run 18:03:00 1580 30 1550
13 Dave Driscole Bike 18:07:00 1770 247 1523
14 Gerard O'Flynn Run 18:01:40 1690 169 1521
15 Tara Donnelly Paddy Atkinson Run 17:56:30 1520 0 1520
16 Mark Wallace Al Adams Bike 18:00:50 1690 179 1511
17 Trent Corbett Scott MacIntyre (Run to Pen) Run 17:54:40 1480 0 1480
18 2nd wom Fiona Clendon Hannah McGregor Run 18:03:05 1520 40 1480
19 The newly weds: Barry Stevens Jo Stevens Run 18:03:20 1510 40 1470
20 Magnus Bengtsson Lisa Walker Run 17:47:00 1450 0 1450
21 Keri Devine Rob Smith Run 17:56:50 1450 0 1450
22 Bay Strollers: Ruth Murphy Michael Delahunty Run 18:05:00 1440 50 1390
23 Half a pair: Jackson Green Tom Clarkson Bike 17:52:30 1520 152 1368
24 Looney Hoons: Glen Warner Helen Gregan... Run 18:03:00 1380 30 1350
Treena Fitness Leanne Killalea
25 B squared: Bruce Worsley Brian Hallinan Run 18:06:20 1420 70 1350
26 Mike Fee Run 17:57:30 1280 0 1280
27 Alan Thompson Rosemary Thompson Run 18:01:00 1210 10 1200
28 Matt Allen Justin Tampeau Run 18:01:40 1150 20 1130
29 Jeff Williams Simon Rea Run 18:03:45 1140 40 1100
30 Todd Oates (Run to Pencarrow) Run 17:33:15 1180 118 1062
31 JoBo & Co: Jo Holden Chris Sherwood Bike 17:31:19 1140 114 1026
32 1st boy Barnstormers - Bike Barn Boys... Bike 18:01:50 1050 115 935
Peter Barnes Jonathan Barnes
33 John Veal Run 17:54:50 920 0 920
34 John Bocock Graeme Richardson Run 17:50:51 770 0 770
35 Paul Callaghan Rachel Callaghan Run 17:50:51 770 0 770
36 1st fam Jenny Visser Christopher Visser Fee Run 17:42:00 720 0 720
37 Barnstormers - foot squad... Run 18:11:52 810 120 690
Pauline Barnes Deborah Barnes
38 2nd fam PKB: Garth Gulley Jannien Kamphuis... Run 17:45:30 590 0 590
Sarah Gulley Robert Gulley
39 1st grl Barnstormers - Bike Barn Girls... Bike 18:11:52 520 0 520
Hannah Barnes Martine Barnes
Time 4 hours; teams 39, participants 80. Link to Event info. Results and story by installed 21 Dec 08.