Itchy pretty consistently delivers good runs. chatting to her the night before we were wondering if anyone would show up, so she promised me a short, easy run! With a lot of the guys out of town at the Pattaya Outstation, a lower turnout was expected. Sleeps on It brought along a new virgin, and Anita back from last week. Piggy hadn’t left yet, so with Crap Thai, Does Nothing and Cougar the songthaew arrived with additional hashers – plus Cumalot…
About 5 minutes early, Itchy sent us off up the road. I jogged off as usual, and shortly after the virgin went running straight past! WTF? I was expecting a short, easy run and now we have a real runner in our ranks! I let him go, and Piggy past too in chase mode with over 1km before the first check! When I got there our virgin was roaming around like a headless chicken. Shortly after Piggy called on and we headed towards the hills.
Expecting an easy ride, I got a few checks wrong – she wasn’t going easy on us at all – it was off into the great trails behind Itchy’s place. The lead was rotating nicely between Piggy, Cory and I, with Humperdick and the new runner from Bangkok. My memory isn’t doing too well right now – I can’t remember names, or anything! We ran into the hills, and then out of the hills. I screwed up one check, but nowhere near as monumentally as Piggy did – right at the end, when he was racing towards a win at the finish, and he gifted it to Humps.
All in all, a very fun occasion!