To Maejo! To the Tiger’s Head! And then a U turn and back to find the hidden sign along a trail that doesn’t see much in the way of motorised traffic to a runsite by a lake that I certainly hadn’t run at previously. As we drove in I spied a large white area across the lake, so Chuckie and I took a casual walk around to see that it did say “ON IN”. The truck arrived and it was time for one of the least enthusiastic hare briefs in history! “We got some checks – that way!”. But wait there’s a virgin – “well you tell her what to do then!”… On and by the way, I got lost and probably didn’t set half the trail…
So it could be a short one – that suited me today. The trail set off upwards and it seemed we were climbing for a while – but there were so many great trails! The checks were coming thick and fast and while I got the first right, I was quickly off pace. At one check I decided to parallel run, only to find that I was running perpendicular and had to cut across to hit the trail behind Hollow Legs and Kwazi. The trail continued upwards – more than once I thought we’d reached the top.
Finally we cut to the right along the ridge and Kwazi was delighted to catch and overtake me! We got to a check that hadn’t been kicked out – no sounds from ahead, so I followed Kwazi down to the right as he called “On On Left!”. Sure enough we intercepted trail and Humperdick who was coming back from where a circle had been kicked out wrong… From there the trail was great to run on, down to where we knew the On-In was. All in all, it was a great trail in a great area! Good Work HRA.
After the run HRA turned over duties to His Religious Advisor (HRA) and Poo led the circle. It started slowly, but genius inspiration brought us Sloppy Rod, and Chuckie couldn’t resist getting back on the wagon, before returning to retirement more than once. Frozen Dick’s splashes were arguably the best he’s ever delivered, largely due to audience participation! All in all it was a great evening!