A stroll around Khao Long

Yellow x's indicate where fun-loving locals picked up the paper, and green x's where they relaid it. The blue line is the short-run in-trail.

As probably everyone figured out pretty quickly, #1731 was just a circuit around Khao Long. This made for a fairly ambitious short run: about 5.5km long with 250m total ascent. It took the short runners over an hour and a half, and a few of them were less than impressed. Notably, Crackwurst tried to attack the hare with her walking stick. Fortunately she was too exhausted to catch me. Handjob just gave me a lot of dirty looks, though a couple bowls of som tam quickly restored her good humor.

The long run added one extra loop, for 7km total distance and 350m ascent, including false trails. All the long runners came in within one minute of 1:15. I wish I could take credit for keeping everyone so closely together but that was more thanks to some helpful locals who picked up a couple hundred meters of paper and cleverly relaid it in the other direction. The above track shows that the hare never went near where the paper was found, north of the trail. This disproves Acting GM Stick Insect's claim that the hare forgot where he went. Not that I couldn't or wouldn't do that, but I had Mr. Garmin with me and he knows exactly where he is.

One naming -- Christina is now Throbbin' Hood -- and two new runners. Sex Sprinter was iced for wearing a non-hash t-shirt that featured a photo of his own face. Let's hope this is a fashion fad that doesn't catch on.

Whatever you thought of the run, if you go out on Robocop's Nam Noi likely vertical death march today, I predict that you will soon be looking back wistfully on the gentle slopes and friendly trails of Khao Long. On-on!