The Stone’s Throw Hike/Bike Rogaine – Saturday 25 May – Entries Now Open
Only a stone’s throw from Brisbane! Set in the beautiful Glass House Mountains, where one really should not throw stones 🙂
This year the 8hr rogaine will be a combined foot and bike rogaine, you will navigate between checkpoints using a mix of both.
Camping is included in your event fee, and there is a Mountain Bike Orienteering event nearby on the following day (26 May) so you can enter that too and make it a full weekend of fun.
For further information and entry in both the 8hr rogaine on the Saturday and the MTBO event on the Sunday please visit the event page.
Mini Rogaine and Training Day Washup
The mini rogaine and training day were held at Bunyaville and there was a great turnout at both events. We hope everyone had fun! Check out the results here.
Rogue Raid 100
The first ever rogaine-style expedition race is about to begin!
100 hours… 100 checkpoints… 43 teams… who will win?
Race director Liam has published a predictions blog here, it is well worth a read.
You can follow all of your favourite teams on the live tracking map and get updates from the course on the live site, here.
The event starts at 1pm on Tuesday 23/4 and finishes at 5pm on Saturday 27/4. Good luck to all participants (and their supporters)!
MOJO Winter Raid
New to the sport? Here’s a Toowoomba based beginner friendly event to get you started in the sports of adventure racing and rogaining! This is a walk/run event only. Entries here.
Volunteers Needed for the 12 hour and 24 hour Events
We still need to fill roles in the organising teams for these events later in the year. If you have been competing for a while but haven’t yet volunteered, now is a great time to jump in. If we can’t get enough volunteers lined up to fill roles in these events, we may have cancellations which would be a big disappointment.
The Rogaining Queensland Event Calendar for 2019 is available at qldrogaine.asn.au/event-calendar. The volunteer page on the website has a description of each of the event volunteer roles. Please send an email to volunteer@qldrogaine.asn.au to put your hand up. It’s a lot of fun, you learn heaps about rogaining and we have many experienced hands to support you.
NAMSF Sponsorship
QRA is pleased to announce that Andrew Banks and Mitchell Quinn are the recipients of this year’s sponsorship from the NAMSF (see info from last year’s event here). They will represent the University of Queensland in the Australian Intervarsity Rogaining Championships to be held near the ACT in May. Congratulations Andrew and Mitchell, and good luck in the event!
Questgaines and Night Nav
These 1-hour mini-rogaines can be done as individuals or in a group, and best of all, they’re free! For updates, check out the Facebook Page for information on upcoming events. Also check out the OQ Night Nav events.
Individual Rogaining Results
You can look up any individual’s historical results in QRA events since 2010 and all of the ARCs going back to 1979:
https://qldrogaine.asn.au/event-list/
MTBO
For information on upcoming mountain bike orienteering events, please visit www.mtbo.com.au.
Volunteer Rewards Policy
Volunteers at QRA or Raid Adventures events who have contributed at least a full day to an event and have given up their opportunity to compete are offered a $50 credit towards entry in a QRA or Raid Adventures event of their choosing within the following 12 months. A list of people who have earned rewards is on the website. The reward can be claimed by ticking the appropriate box when entering an event. Rogaining around the world…
The 2019 WRC will be held in Spain in July. The 2020 WRC will be held in the Sierra Nevada range in California. From 2020 onwards, the World Rogaining Championships will be held every second year.
…and across Australia…
The 2019 Australasian Rogaining Champs will be held in Tasmania in the stunning Bay of Fires region on 9-10 November 2019. This will be an event you must not miss. Put it in your calendar now! https://arc2019.rt.asn.au/
The classic 24hr rogaine is a very special event and travelling interstate for a rogaine is a great way to see more of Australia. Here are the dates for this year’s 24hr events:
18-19 May: ACT 24hr Champs and SA 24hr Champs
15-16 June: WA Winter 24hr
27-28 July: World Champs in Spain
10-11 August: WA 24hr Champs
24-25 August: Qld 24hr Champs
14-15 September: NSW 24hr Champs
12-13 October: Vic 24hr Champs
9-10 November: Australasian Champs in TassieSee if you can get along to at least one! A list of all upcoming interstate rogaines can be found at rogaining.org.au/events.
Rogaining Stories
We’re always keen to hear from QRA members about your rogaining or other outdoor experiences. Please share your stories by posting on the wall of the official QRA Facebook page, and join the Adventure Racing and Rogaining Qld group. Don’t forget to ‘like’ our Facebook page. If you would like to share some news, send it to bulletins@qldrogaine.asn.au and we will post it.
Hope to see you at a QRA event, soon.
Paul Guard
QRA Communications