Event Calendar
Gidday Rogainers
Hope you all had a great Christmas and all the best for the New Year ahead to you all.
Rogaining a sport of that is long distance cross-country navigation and you do it as you please.
We have people of elite athleticism, those that are realizing their potential and those that could not give a rats and then are those that are all the way in between. A very mixed bunch but always there to give a go and have a laugh. Try it.
Our First Event for the year draws closer.
Saturday 21st February 2026.
The Burbs, Bush and Beach Urban Rogaine will be conducted around some of the Northern Suburbs and out to the Nightcliff and Casuarina foreshore.
Just confirming our Hash House location, get the date locked in. It will be around the Tiwi area.
There will be a 5 & 3 hour Foot events plus a 4-hour Bike event.
Maps are out at 1:00 pm.
5-hour Foot starts at 3:00 pm.
4-hour Bike Starts at 3:30pm.
3-hour Foot starts at 4:00 pm.
The event will be using MapRun as a safety and scoring tool. MapRun uses Smart Phones for punching and timing. You also use your Garmin device if you don’t want to carry a phone.
Entry form coming soon
Now that the normal December and January festivities are over, it’s now time to start looking at the year ahead. Please give some consideration in assisting with events in any way possible please. This year we are aiming to do a couple of bush events throughout the course of the dry season and another couple of Metro events amongst them as well. It would be nice to see some new faces having a crack at setting an event, there’s people around who are well experienced that can assist every step of the way.
Trying to get fit?
There’s a few of us that catch up between 06.00am to 07.00am, Monday to Friday. We exercise in a group to maintain and develop our fitness. We have been doing it now for more than 13 years and it certainly helps!! Non-commercial.
Give us a call 0474 205 735 if you are interested.
Cheers
Mike on Behalf of the NTRA
What is Rogaining?
Rogaining is the sport of long distance cross country navigation. Teamwork, endurance, strategy and map reading are features of the sport. Rogaining is a team activity for people of all ages and levels of fitness, which aims to support and encourage people to develop respect for and enjoyment of rural and bushland environments, and to encourage the development of navigational skills, self reliance, general fitness, and the ability to work in a team.
About the NTRA
Rogaining found its way to the NT in 1999 (about a quarter of a century after the sport's invention in Victoria), courtesy of the energetic Andy Black and David Palmer who organised the first NT rogaine, the Croc and Rock, at Litchfield National Park in August of that year.
With their rogaining experience from southern states, Andy and David spent much of early 1999 battling Wet season humidity, flooded creeks, thick high grass and the almost totally unroaded bush of Litchfield National Park to set the course for what turned out to be an historic (and for many competitors very tough) 24 hour event.