[Event] MTB Navigation Challenge

[MTBorienteering]

Event Name: MTB Navigation Challenge
When: 27 July 2014
Where: Mokubalaan Plantation, Lydenburg, Mpumulanga
Category: MTB

How about this for an event? You get a fixed period of time - to go anywhere you want to. There's no defined course or route; just the period of time so the pairs don't exactly ride around aimlessly. They've got checkpoints to find. All the checkpoints out there in the great expanse are marked on the map that the pairs are given at the start. The teams can choose which of them they want to visit - in any order. The big challenge is to find the checkpoints and to make it back to the finish in time. The teams score points for every checkpoint successfully located and they lose chunks of points for every minute that they're late.

 

 

 

This is the sport of rogaining, which Wiki defines as "a sport of long-distance, cross-country navigation, involving both route planning and navigation between checkpoints using a variety of map types". Pairs take to their mountain bikes and navigate their way on dirt roads, tracks and paths. There are two course options: three hours or five hours. This year the annual Mountain Bike Challenge, presented by Rand Orienteering Club, takes place in the forested Mokobulaan Plantation near Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga.

 

There is also a running navigational challenge on Saturday 26th July for the multi-sport athletes out there.

 

For more information on the full event, entry forms and entry information please visit www.roc.org.za.

 

 

 

Entries close 20 July 2014

 

 

 

 

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