The eight-fold way

Here is today's track which seemed to fool most people even if they sensed that they were going back where they had already been, Highlight of the day was undoubtedly Harram sensing the call of duty, and abandoning co-hare Egghead, as he manipulated the paper to ensure that the erstwhile short runners did not over exert themselves, and sweeping the long runners round the top half of the figure eight.
The whole run including all the Fs and the one X was 8.6k, reducing to 7.3k without them. Without the top loop the (short) run reduced to about 4.8k but with the 3 F's on the bottom loop and the end of the smaller loop leading to the second F lopped off, it reduced to about 4k. The much reduced short run made the beer stop in about 40 minutes, then needed guidance to get home, with both All Black and McMucky getting comprehensively lost. The long run were at the beer stop in about an hour 10. Then it all fell apart with Little Woody being the first back at the run site and Jesus Nut arriving not far behind.