Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers, including Stephen Regenold and first-time teammate Ryan Knitter, took first place in the open division, and second place overall, last weekend in the 9th Annual MNOC Rogaine Orienteering race, a six-hour event. After trail running, bushwhacking, and navigating to 24 precise checkpoints on a topo map, the team managed to “clear the course” and finish in 5 hours 27 minutes.
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As we’ve noted in past articles, despite its name, the sport of Rogaine has no connection to the anti-baldness drug made by Pfizer Inc. The name comes from a combination of Rod, Gail and Neil, the first names of three Australian athletes credited with popularizing the sport in the 1970s. It involves a choose-your-own adventure theme of finding your way through wilderness to check-in at flags strew on hills, ridges, on the edges of swamps, and placed in deep ravines.
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The event this year, on August 13th, took place in the Bayfield County Forest of northern Wisconsin. It was organized by the Minnesota Orienteering Club. Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers ran on and off trail about 18 miles for 5+ hours to complete the course and take home the open-division win.
—Follow Team GearJunkie/YogaSlackers as they race around the planet this year on our newly-launched team micro-site.
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