Slipping out of work and taking the back roads, I ended up very close to the runsite, about half an hour late – what the hell, I should get some exercise. It isn’t clear whether Lumber Jack Off & Horny Monkey were drunk before they started setting the run, (but we suspect they were), but it was very evident they had been stuck into it for some time. With only the songthaews at the A site, I started looking for the run. I nearly gave up, when I smelt Horny sat in a bar. He stumbled over and pointed me in the general direction of the run.
I set off, and there was a bit of a scramble around edge of the temple grounds, and a bit of a hack through some shiggy to get up to the main trail. Circle checks that weren’t kicked out, this could be interesting… I heard Chuckie ahead of me calling OnOn, but figured I can’t have caught the pack! Sure enough he came running towards me as the out trail was the same as the in trail. He was some way ahead of the rest, but as I ducked under the barbed wire fence, Graven appeared. The trail split, and I headed up the hill to the left as hashers came down from the right. I saw Brownie, and gave him a call to see if he wanted to go round again. I’m not sure he understood, but Piggy cheerfully called out – we’ll catch you up, we’ll go round again! Poo joined them too and it wasn’t long before 4 of us were tracking up the hill together.
The trail was a lot easier to follow running with people who’d already done it once! Without them, I would have been struggling to find the powder in places. We got onto some nice running trails and there was a loop of a couple of km or so before we got back to the barbed wire cut away. Amazingly Piggy suggested going around yet again. I was already working it to keep up, so I declined and set off back, waiting for Poo to catch up. Interesting running a hash run like that, but it was one of Horny’s best sets… – ah sorry, it was probably all Lumber Jack Off’s work!
The circle was an event – a good idea for someone to drive Horny home after!