Brown Finger decided to not have 1 co-hare, not 2 co-hares, but 3! Teaming up with Graven, Robin Banks and the absent Krap Thai surely this would be some event?!
We set off towards the Tiger’s head in Maejo – None of Your Business was feeling fit and confident. A couple of visitors and some virgins, plus an influx of Dutch boosted the post-outstation turnout. We were set off into the low trails – lots of good checks, and I got plenty of them wrong! The hare brief perhaps hadn’t cleared everything up for the virgins, and there was some confusion as they were towards the front of the pack. Some local knowledge kept me in the action though.
We’d been told it was an A->B, and it set off as though we were going to head due north perhaps to Praphats farm? Were we going to turn right and up to the Tiger head? Then all of a sudden we turned left and headed back along the trails and into the village. And it seemed like we were heading back towards the A – never trust the hares!
I was upfront with a strong running visitor, Amanda. After 7k we got to the Wimp Rambo split, and that confirmed my suspicion that we were heading back to the start. Sure enough I got the next few checks right and even did the dummy False Trail that was pretty obvious. Finally we got back to the “B” – about 100m away from the A. Nice job hares – 9.25km!!