Location: Batang Kali/Ulu Yam
Hare : Rob Stott
Scribe : David Wee
The drive from Ulu Yam to the run site is fantastic after a steady downpour of rain. The forest canopy is covered with mist and the road is ideal for F1 driving!!. Traffic is light, maybe due to the rain or fasting month. By the time we received the run site the rain has stopped with overcast sky. It is nice and cool. .. the right combination for a good long run.. The hare must have engaged a bomoh for his run..
Short write-up
For those, who did not come for this run, the summary is here. 5 checks .The run topography is oil palm, rubber estate, oil palm, pass hot springs/orchards, small streams up secondary jungles and back to run site. First runner in by 1 hour 35 minutes and the your truly back in more than 2 hours. Started with cool weather and ended with drizzling rain. Pretty of hills and mud. Estimated distance is 8-10km.
Write-Up
We have about 60-80 hashers when the ON ON is called. We set off into the oil palm estate with the first check on top on a hill.. We have difficulty breaking the first check as there is one too many false trials. Luckily it enables our slow walker and late-comer to catch up with the runners.. The first 2 checks at the oil palm are confusing with all the fast runners milling all over after being frustrated by false trails.. After the 3rd check, I lost track of the runners.
As we plough on with a few walkers and heard them, commenting on all sundries and the latest gossips in town. We happily followed the paper trail which lead us into another stretch of oil palm estate and from the distance we saw a small group of Chinese native taking bath�in pockets of hot spring. They all looked startled to see hashers running pass them. With the cold weather and the misty environment, we could be from another world to them.
Soon we run into an orchard and followed a small meandering stream for a while. The water is icy cold and we are glad to get out of it into the muddy stretch. Jimmy Legget seems to be every where to connect the paper. God bless you Jim. The remainder of the trail was the usual meandering around the very tortuous, muddy and slippy terraces. To compound all, it started to drizzle and make the hard track very slippy. A few of us ,bite the dirt and test our bum against the hard ground before we reached the run site.
I was told that the first runner came in about 1hr 35 minutes. I estimated the run-distance to be 8-10km. It took me nearly 2 hours . This run is good for walker but bad for kneel. I think some of us will gulp down some glucosamine pills later.
I got some feedback from some of the hashers. There are some of their comments. Pansy.. " Easy run lah� 1 hill only". A guest by the name Grace�" Very tough". One of the lady hasher� "crazy hare� so long run." And another " I enjoy the run� Good run"
Your truly cannot stayed for the Circle and when I left about 7.20pm, it was almost pitch dark. Hope some of you can fill in the missing piece for me especially the rating of the run and etc� .
Posted by onsec at October 10, 2005 08:43 PM