This handsome track (click to embiggenate) belongs to today's Hatyai H3 run, about which opinions were decidedly mixed. The FRBs like Sex Sprinter, Sex Ao Ao, and Sex Star all seemed to find it . . . sexy. But then they would. Those further behind, like Softcock, Gan Yao, and Off T were less enthusiastic. Egghead, I mean Khai Jiao, loved it, while The Lady of the Lamp hated it, but then that's exactly what they both often do, so they cancel each other out. For the hare, yet another a lesson in how a run that does interesting things geographically might not always bring joy to the running rabble. But maybe, like Hillwalk III, it'll seem better in retrospect.
Stats: 7.7km long, 510m total ascent, with the highest points just 199m (at the top of that first bit of shiggy) and 200m (just before the steep muddy descent, which was only 80m vertically, though it did feel like more). First runners back in 1:20, last ones in the final moments before total darkness, 2 hours+.
Well, we're doing this because Saturday and Sunday afternoons would be boring without it, and it sure beats another 5 hours working/playing some tedious computer game/reading yet another fascinating tome about the meaning of life or just veging out in front of the TV. We do it because we don't want to slip quietly into the half life of being Mr. and Mrs. average, but prefer to rage, rage, rage against the inevitability of getting old and decrepit and just having to sit and regret that we are too old and unfit to do it anymore. Don't believe it? Tell me again in 10 or 15 years. Meanwhile, just shut the f**k up whinging and follow the paper!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Egg. I do like to think that in not too many years we'll look back on some of the more pointlessly extreme things we do now and think . . . it sure felt like being alive.
ReplyDeleteOuch, ache, hobble and pain!! 'felt like being alive'? At the top of that hill I was closer to the other extreme! John, it must have taken alot of effort to join up those trails, if it seemed that I didn't appreciate it, it was just cause it was too much for this old bag of bones. Looking back I'm glad I did it!
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