An unusual location – a kinda Skiddyish location in Saraphi – there were certainly be no hills, but how many bridges? I ignored the directions and meandered my way to the runsite – cheers for the extra signs on the alternative route! A decent turnout with the ladies showing up to see what Cumalot was putting on.
Junglicious set the early pace nailing all the early checks with the philosophy – “just go straight”. Angry Inch was following her leaving the rest of us to futile checking. Finally she got a V check wrong when she checked left, when the true trail was of course straight on. A short while later we hit the rice fields – I think I get 3 emails each week from HRA telling me to stay away from the rice fields, and yet he was instrumental in a rice fields run – circle checks on the edge of ricefields are likely to get rice trampled… A check took forever for Brownie to balance over a single bridge, while most of us went around and intercepted Graven at the trail further on.
And then… I made a mistake… Quite a big mistake in terms of hashing… Having checked too far to the left, I could see the hashers making their way across a rice field to the north. I figured if I went around the edge, either the trail would turn left and I would meet up with them, or if it turned right I’d be able to cut across. It was a left/right gamble, and I got it wrong… Badly wrong… A little old lady came out to scream at me how wrong I was, so now I couldn’t even turn around and go back. Then I was on the outer ring road, running into the evening traffic, with the smog amplified by the exhaust fumes.
I finally found a place to turn back towards trail, but by then it was too late, so I was left with surprising the likes of Running Bare, Chilly Pussy, Anything & Tip Toe from behind. Skiddy may have left, but his runs are still in use!