Bend it like Beaver

There were threats of massive shortcutting by the rabble, so the hare decided to make a run so weird and eccentric that people would be too confused to go off paper. What you see here was the result. It's the kind of track that would have been just about impossible in the days before GPS.

Apart from Yardstick blundering into the in-trail fairly early on, it all worked pretty well. Sex Sprinter seemed to be particularly befuddled, getting most of the checks wrong and returning to the site from a strange direction well after the pack. Egghead appeared quite delighted at "coming in ahead of both Stick Insect and Sex Sprinter", not that we keep track or anything. Both Stick Insect and Khii Leum were swearing like Dutch sailors (no offense, Leaking Seaman) as they screwed up one check after another, which can only be a good thing.

Long run measured a hair over 7km without the checks or exactly 8km if you ran them all. Total ascent was a moderate 270m with a high point (the check where the short run diverged) of 160m. The short run was the better part of 5km with almost the same total ascent. I was a bit concerned that it might be a little too much for them, but our short runners have become a hardy crowd. Give them just 4km now without a hill and they complain it's too easy.