Hare: John Lavelle (live hare run)
Co-Hares: Chu Chu & some professional runners were engaged
Location: Kajang Hill Golf Club
Scribe: Ti Cheng Peng
Is the beginning of the North-East Monsoon season, either prevailing dark skies or continuous rainfalls each day, had happened for the past two weeks ago. However on the actual running day there is an abrupt change of weather. GOD was considerate, temporarily stopped the rain & blessed hashers with a cool sunny sky for the day.
The drive to Kajang / Semenyih using the newly completed elevated highways was exceptionally pleasant, the experiences of notorious traffic jam is history now. The new tolled highways criss-crossed between UPM & Semenyih, by-passing Kajang town, took me less than ten minutes to arrive run-site. I guess there is a lot of potentials to set more runs in these areas with the forgiving traffic flows.
Apparently many hashers like me reached run-site early, I was an hour time ahead. Look like we have to re-schedule our traveling time, particularly for run at Kajang, by cutting half the time and have more affordable time to appreciate the super engineering structures of the highways or go for an on-down teh tarik.
At run site not sure is 4.30pm or ???, GM sentenced the hare & gangs for an unprecedented on down before the pack of around one hundred hashers. The hare & gangs happily obliged & gulped the beer so quickly except Chu Chu was spared the beer. GM was happy with their good drinking conduct & gave his approval to start the run setting in real time. Ten minutes after the hares had went in, On-On was called to start the run.
Quality of the run��the setting of the run was well managed & coordinated�.as far I am concerned is a perfect good run. I am not bothered about the first two checks bringing us to backyards of the factories & chemical polluted river. I am also not bothered the timing of the first runner came in. In the spirit of hashing let forgo the small matters & look at the greater efforts & times the responsible hares had spent to ensure all hashers enjoyed the run & the evening.
Thanks John & team ��.I guessed all hashers (particularly the front runners) loved the run & recognized it is a real challenge to set live run, it demands a lot of brain works & planning.
Summary of the actual run�..length is around 9km in anti-clockwise direction. There is a total of 7 checks, mainly back checks & were broken quickly around 3 to 5 minutes. The young & fit guys broke most of the checks. Hey !! something is missing, most of the old tough runners were not around to be seen probably have retired to recuperate their inflicted injuries. Look like time the old farts make way for the young to take over the helm.
Towards the first check was running on open areas at the backyard of factories. Trails were littered with household & industrial hazardous wastes. Some are chemically reactive or toxic can cause disease in humans, I hope no death / harmful effects damaging to nerves & causes skin rashes. The ground was soggy, some patches with waterlogged that can washes chemical into river nearby. We are lucky the sun was not burning.
To the second check we started single file for a short distance & dropped to running in river. Oh !!, a chemically polluted river & it stinks heavily and stay in our body. I guessed a lot of huh-hah from the women folks, they were upset with skin rashes & a strong sensation of itch-bawah sickness (irritation of the skin at the foot or leg). Along the river I met Ah Wan escorting a young beautiful lady but he has a competitor, a young handsome guy also trying to woo the same lady�..look like the river has a seductive match making effect to bring lovers together. Ah Wan probably would asked � why complained against the river, I love it because I started my first love here !!. Towards the end of the check I saw many hashers were using the river water to wash their dirty foots�..so who is complaining the water is dirty & stinking !! Surprising the river has its usefulness, it has provided something for everybody, so it had provided more �good� problems than real problems.
Towards the third & fourth check, a dramatic change of terrains� vegetations, walking single file & some running through matured oil palm & wild rubber jungle not maintained for years.
Then there was a steep rubber hill at the fifth check, this is the only hill for the run. Down here some of the injured & weaker hashers surrendered to the hill but cleverly skirted around it & shoot off home in around 20 to 30 minutes. For the stronger hashers took the challenge up hill and from the summit it was all the way running down through more undulating rubbers, oil palms & abandoned orchards to the sixth, seventh checks to home. The trails were well set & was conducive for fast running, it is here the front packs started to distant away from the mid & slow runners. Nevertheless all runners were out before 8.00pm (minus John Duncan who started late).
NOTES: Actually I am not prepared to scribe this report. I did not bothered to takes notes or took the trouble to remember the run. Worst, not even bothered to share & exchange information with other hashers for comments or the details of their experiences after the run. But since it was a good run and I enjoyed the run so much, so it is only fair there must be a report, even it is a rubbish report is ok��so here is the rubbish report, happy reading.
Posted by onsec at October 24, 2005 10:28 PM