Or possibly the half-dead hare run, depending on your point of view. At least that’s how one of the hares felt after Friday night’s quiz show, which as predicted ended in a stupendous win for the victorious SH3 team. Well when I say team, it was actually left to half the team to provide most of the answers while the other half sat in a daze through most of the questions which were almost exclusively music related. I will leave it to other sources to disclose who the reticents in question were.
Some difficulty was experienced by the pack in finding their way around the first part of the run, namely at the second check which had the hounds searching far and wide for the track which had cunningly turned in on itself. Only a Yolk & Egghead were seen approaching to within 50m of the third check, where Yardstick was waiting after making sure all the checks were undisturbed and in place. As it was all the checkbacks and false trails up until that point worked perfectly and the hounds were sent running around in circles before reaching the third check and the start of the hillclimb section of the run.
Only Softcock and OAY took advantage of the medium run
cutout (in magenta) while the rest of the smallish pack continued onwards and
upwards to C05, and from there one of the most enjoyable downhill runs in the
Songkhla area to F06. The third checkback at C07 proved to be problematic for
some of the front runners and the long runners struggled back to the runsite in
even smaller packs.
Lucky enough while waiting for the remainder of the long
runners to never advance past C07 a bedraggled Short Screw and Jack (maybe
someone could lob in with his new hash name) turned up, after having missed the
short run turn off and doing the medium run instead. Yardstick, SS & son
arriving back at the runsite in 1 hour & 50 minutes. Times and comments on
the other runs I’m sure will be posted by other persons.
The statistics for the run were as follows:
The long run was clocked at 9.3kms, including all 9 checks,
10 false trails & 3 check-backs. The total ascent was 360m, while the
maximum height achieved was 174m above the runsite. The medium run was 6.2kms
long, again including the false trails and check-backs, and reached a height of
87m with a total ascent of 222m. The short run was a lengthy 4.9kms, which included 5 checks, 4 false trails and one checkback. The total ascent was 145m.
Great run, chaps, good effort!
ReplyDeleteJack was dubbed, Screw Loose.
Looks like you've already done your monster. Maybe a nice tea party and a spot of croquet on June 14th?
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DeleteC'mon Beaver, we expect you to do your duty, upholding your reputation for setting the longest, toughest, meanest midsummer run. You'll be closely following Stick Insect's run which should be a nice stroll along pleasant concrete country roads and/or finding new ways through overgrown near vertical hillsides, but whatever I'm sure it will be long.
DeleteWhich brings me to Sunday's HH3 RUN??. Enough said, except I was ready to shoot that sadisitic, dementic hare with a right leg 20cms shorter than his left leg. Can't they run anti-clockwise around the hill just once?
PS. I'll be going away this weekend and hopefully won't return for at least one month, at least till after this summer madness ends.
You've done this before, Yardo. I say I'm going to do a monster and then you set an even longer one a couple weeks before.
DeleteWhile I understand that you have to go now that I'm returning, I hope you can make it on Saturday.