HRA stepped up to the plate at short notice and sent us out to the canal road – it emerged we were to rerun a Bunny Hash Run set by Snail Trail and Throbbing Ninja. Apparently HRA had been on the run but didn’t recognise where we were and the old paper just confused him. HRA gave an elaborate (and early) hare brief for the 3 virgins that we had – it didn’t work, Clement still had no idea what was going on! The hare sent us off pointing towards a barbed wire fence, and immediately we were scattered as we took time to scramble through it.
HRA had told us not to follow shredded paper, but there was shredded paper all over the place – straight up the trail with the odd splash of powder! Brown Finger was immediately racing to the front and by the time we got to the first V check it wasn’t worth checking the other way as he was already away. I briefly saw him when he got a check wrong, but he cunningly threw us off course with some ventriloquist calling – Bastard! Attempting to follow his blistering pace early on was only going to come back and hurt me later when I hit the wall…
The trail to be fair was great – the bunnies had found a good one for HRA to reuse. But one by one the other hashers passed me until I was in that no-mans-land between the runners and the walkers. I strolled along, contemplating a short cut, but I’d been deviously disoriented and opted to stay on trail. Just like Graven’s run last week, this was a great run that I just didn’t have the energy to do… While the trail was good, the checks were fairly straight forward and there was a good 45 minutes between the FRBs and the DFLs.
With the early drinking and extra numbers there were ominous glances at the beer cooler – had the hash cashes screwed up? Fortunately Screwed Up (and Throbbing Ninja) produced a bottle of Bacardi that lasted until the splashes were done. The circle was very enjoyable – one of the most entertaining of the weekend!