A competitive sport in which runners find their way across open country with a map and compass, similar to orienteering, but held over greater times and distances.
one feature of rogaining is the opportunity for night navigation
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- Rogaining closely mimics the animal foraging problem of choosing which points to visit in what order.
- Officials have withdrawn rogaining from the list of interservice sports.
- The identified disciplines are mountain biking, sea kayaking and rogaining.
- For those unfamiliar with the sport of rogaining, it is a gruelling physical endurance event.
- A year later the Victorian Rogaining Association was formed.
- Their sport is rogaining - a somewhat shortened term for an endurance field navigation exercise covering up to 200 square kilometres.
- Teamwork and team strategy play a major role in rogaining.
- The soldiers first used rogaining as a means of training when they were both part of the now defunct Land Rescue Team at RAAF Base Richmond.
- Four members of the team have taken to the sport of rogaining.
- The rogaining event in New Zealand was held over 24 hours.