Venue : CVI Club Kundang
Hare : Nan K
Co-Hare : Terry Gardener, Hugh Murray
Scribe : Hugh Murray
Phillip Doyle you have nearly a year to write this report, ice and water down down’s await you.
The AGM run as is always the case this is set b y the out going helpers. The runsite was also to be the site of the ON ON venue being the CVI Club at Kundang and in an area that is not normally used by PH3. Nan’s coheres for this occasion are to be Robin and this reports author, as they are familiar to the area having recceed here and set runs recently for Full Moon, but not exactly from this runsite. Unfortunately Robin is off to set up business in Brunei, never mind I will do this with Nan.
As this is a PH3 run Nan and I carry out another reccee to expand the area known to the hares and make the run longer than that set for Full Moon. (Not sure why as the run I set for Full Moon nobody managed to finish, but that is another story)
On the day Terry also agrees to come out and help set the run and aid in bringing out all the “Freebies”
We set out with the brand new – first time used PH3 logo paper (this will be provided free to future hares) and reach the first check. This will be set down the terraces from the track that the pack is currently on. It will be a forward check. Do not want too many people actually checking backwards as the current path would lead directly on to the home trail in about 600m. Ask Terry to set a false trail, give instructions go round the bend lay 75m of paper then cut straight down the road there to the fishponds about 1km away. I will meantime set the correct trail up on the terraces. Meet Terry by fishponds, who tells me false trail seemed a bit short, so he took it up the terraces to the far side of ridge. Think this will be OK but a bit worried that it might end where home trail is visible. Anyway as this is the AGM we intend to be back on site by the time the pack sets off and should have time to re-examine on our return. For reasons that will be explained later we ran out of time, and you guessed it some of the pack found the home trail after the falsie. However as they arrived home in about another 2 minutes and knew they had been running off paper at one time they figured this one out.
The second check was a big circular which apparently confused the FROPS as they run down the trail on the hill they saw the back of the pack walking up the same path towards them. (The idea of a circular is that it will finish very close to a previous part of the trail and bring the pack back together. From the FROPS confusion I believed it worked.)
The third check worked exactly as expected – badly it held for less than a minute, but the hares needed another check somewhere near here. It was at this point we realized that we had the car keys, nothing unusual for the hares to take their keys on the run, but we had the freebies and were suppose to leave the keys so that the rest of the committee can start the distribution. It was agreed that Nan would return with Terry’s keys and the two of us would set the rest of the run. None of us thought that Nan’s own bag was in my car and I kept my keys!
It was also at this stage we were starting to feel the heat, although the run was mainly in mature rubber and palm and was not providing the amount of shade that we expected.
The next check was another circular, which the back of the pack walked across.
Fourth check was 90o a couple of people fell for the falsie and struggled back in a straight line through the undergrowth.
I was now going slower and slower as I got more and more dehydrated, and we were rapidly falling behind our expected schedule. I was carrying 3 litres of water and drinking plenty, unfortunately my body does not seem capable of taking water in to the system as fast as I needed.
Fifth check was another circular, and at this location I decided that I would mix up the ORS and take it. I was always dubious if this worked as I have a couple of times put nausea down to drinking this, greatly diluted through a run. By now it was stagger 100m rest; it was obvious that we were not going to make the runsite for the AGM at my current rate of progress.
It was at this point that we had intended to set a runners and walkers split, as the terrain being used was ideal for running. It was actually not going to be much further for the runners – one extra hill and check. Abandoned this idea and decided to just set a short run.
Carried on a bit further to set the final check down the terraces to the left, with paper to be found a few terraces higher and running parallel to the current path.
At this point it was either getting cooler or the ORS was cutting in as I started to recover and we started to make up time. Unfortunately we were still 20mm away at the time of the AGM, so sat out and waited for the pack to start before completing the trail.
Front runners in about 1:20.
Usual AGM circle with mugs being awarded to those who had been members for multiples of 5 years, outgoing and incoming committee. Then off for makan and dancing.
The incoming GM either in elation or worry about his new found status forgot to thank the hares for the run – so we decided that if it had not been a gazetted run and therefore not judged we would have given ourselves a medal.
ON ON
Posted by onsec at January 16, 2005 12:54 PM