To the participants, according to their abilities and wishes, the organizers offer the usual team distances – 6h Garmin, 4h Kokmuižas and 2h Isostar rogaining distances, as well as individual 3h MTB and rogaining run 2h (O-Run) and rogaining walk for children.
Adherents of an active lifestyle and fans of orienteering competitions are aware that the first Saturday of November should be reserved for the final stage of the “Urban Legends” season, as this popular rogaining series ends at the very beginning of November every year. Two years ago on the fifth, last year on the fourth, but this year it will be held on the second date.
The fifth season of the series, like the third season, began in 2022 and will also end in the capital. In the previous five stages of this season, the participants have started at the “DAMME” shopping center in Imanta on the second Easter on the first day of April, then they went to Liepāja in the same month and to Baloži in May, they visited Mazsalac for the first time in July, and they competed in Mežgarciem for the first time in September. Now in November, it will be the second time in Riga, only at another popular shopping center “DAMME”, where the competition center will also be located.
In this place, the organizers also held a rogaining competition in March 2016, when the “Legends of the City” series was not yet created, but two big Riga rogainings were held a year – one in early spring, and the other in autumn. And this shopping center still had the old name. Although a certain part of the area will overlap with 2016, a large part will be new territory. There will no longer be Dārzciems and the other side of the railway, namely the suburbs of Latgale and Ķengaraga, but the area will move a little more towards Salaspils.
The extreme northern points will be at Ulūpjie and Upeslejė in Ropaži district. To get there, you will have to go through Ulbroka and Sauriės, where the longest 84km distance in the annual “Taisnais” double marathon was started at the beginning of October at the former railway station building, where Rogainers also start, the leader of the 2-hour O-Run distance, Anita Užulei, also won the prized place last year . For the role of the big points, you will also need to cross the Small Jugla river. And, of course, how can we do without the summer cottage village Rūkiši in the Salaspils region, after which this stage got its name.
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In Rogaining competitions with 2 to 4 participants, both athletes and
orienteering enthusiasts who are already masters of these competitions, as well as active and sporty ones
lifestyle lovers who like to spend their free time in the fresh air and being active
to operate. Therefore, several families also use this opportunity, because rogaining is a very democratic activity in its essence, as participants can choose the distance and number of checkpoints suitable for their abilities. Let’s meet and end the fifth season powerfully with an adventure!
The sixth stage of the fifth season of the Rogaining series is organized in cooperation with the municipality of the city of Riga and the shopping center “OZOLS”, as well as with the support of Intervals.lv, Isostar, Garmin, Gerble, Kokmuiža and “Magnesia”.