Itchy Bitchy teamed up with Anything for the 400th run of the CH4 – yes for those who care about numbers it is absolutely, positively, likely to be the 400th run. And as such we recruited numerous visiting hashers including Superman. It was set to be a great evening, but after Bone Hur’s 8k yesterday, which was justifiably followed by a long, long night of drinking, so I really wasn’t feeling up for the hash… I collected my senses and drove to the A bucket to see what torments Itchy and Anything had in mind for us.
It was time to use every trick in the book – and I consulted with Belly Dancer who just happened to have a GPS which just happened to have been carried by the hare when setting the run, and the GPS just happened to have a map feature so I could take a look at the planned route. It seemed like a bit more effort than I had in mind, but it gave me some ideas. We set off and would you believe it, I got the first check right! 😉
Shortly, we started climbing a hill – nasty! I don’t like hills at the best of times and today it was particularly unpleasant! At the top there was a circle and everyone ahead of me started checking to the right. Hmmmm I figured I would check left, and what a surprise! There was the paper! Muahahaha! Graven caught me as we descended, but got off trail as I hit the circle first with Dead Virgin in hot pursuit. I checked for a good 1km from that circle before I came across some paper, but the mother of all short cuts was still out cut by a bunch of the field, including Sups, Chilly Pussy, Wooly Jumper, Toe Jam, Barbindoll…
Nonetheless I found the On-In, broke into a jog (to get a bit sweaty), and timed my arrival at 42:30 – a good time for a well run hash! Sadly the next FRB was 20 minutes behind me, so before too long nobody believed my story! The pack dribbled in and there were no negative comments about the trail – the parts I did were good – and the parts that I did off trail were also good! Time for a circle and with the RA Poo missing there was some confusion about protocol – who was running the thing?
Anything stepped in for most of it and she delivered one of the more entertaining circles we’ve had for a long time. So, yes it was a long circle, but it included some fantastic food (again courtesy of Anything), and it kept going with some entertaining splashes. Perhaps not every one enjoyed it as much as me, afterall I spent most of the night sat on ice with an array of beautiful ladies sitting on my knees.
Here’s the little bit of exercise that I did – if Graven sends me the true trail, I’ll add what we should have done for comparison!
And the true trail from Graven…