Hare: Patrick Russell aka Hornblower aka birthday boy
Co-hare: Carlo Pangrazio.
Venue: Bentong Estate, 11 kms beyond Bentong.
After what the Hare did to me last week with his German accomplice at the “Torchlight Run”I didn’t want to give a good report. After leaving my condo during the thunderous rain I thought, the gods are giving me a hand in this. Anyway I was stuck in the traffic like a lot of other Hashers and stood at a standstill outside the Renaissance Hotel for around 30 minutes. I called the GM on my mobile suggesting that he find another scribe for the run, however I would keep trying and maybe would get there late.
Anyway after what seemed a doomed day out changed, I managed to use the footpath (Malaysian style) and the road to get onto the elevated highway towards Ampang, (I’m glad I didn’t go Jln Kuching). I turned onto Hulu Klang into more traffic but at least it was moving. I got to the runsite to find a very small pack eagerly awaiting the start, as the pack was very small and no sign of the GM (Who is the GM anyway ?), I decided to delay the run by 15 minutes to allow for any late comers and the rain to start.
So the run started 15minutes late at 4:45pm in light rain, with the JM pointing the way ON ON, across a lovely stream and up a tarmac road. I decided to wait another ten minutes as at that time there was no one from the committee present at the runsite. I set off and soon came upon Uncle Looi striding purposefully through the Oil palm. The trail carried on through the oil palm with the stream on our right, I came across torn paper so I assume there was a check there. I didn’t come across any more checks as they had been filled in with, whole pieces of paper, not torn paper. Further on I passed the Hercus family, nice to see Colin back and taking part, on a road now looking down on the stream we had just left at the bottom of the hill, off to the right with the clouds now beginning to dissipate you could see the hills that we would be running back down on. The run then went left past a small temple where we kept on going up left and then eventually coming to the point where the trails split, long run and short run, I kept on the long run but somehow lost the front runners while checking and came upon paper I didn’t know whether I was going the right way or not but carried on anyway crossing a couple of small streams. We were now on the left side of the valley and looking at some beautiful scenery to our right. We carried on down the valley crossing and re-crossing small streams. I came upon Peter Brookes carrying half the Jungle in his hands (must have been talking to Su) whinging to Robb Stott about something trivial, further on I passed Stein and a bunch of others and suddenly found myself back at the run site with 8.9 klms on my GPS. There was a lot more people then started to follow me in, who had obviously got there late and decided to do the run anyway. By this time it was nice and cool and just nice to stand around having a beer and talk to people. I don’t know what time the circle started but it was dark, various people were brought up for misdemeanors from chivalrous acts, raping of the jungle even had Rachel up for asking Kojak if she could borrow his shampoo and the hare himself a number of times who kept saying “The restaurant closes at 8:30” but no one was listening to him.
I think the GM was failing in his duties having “Wanking” (Colin King) on the box, with it being Colins birthday and NO flour or eggs.
I don’t know what went on at the ON ON as I had to get back to KL, but if it was anything like the circle it must have been a good night.
By the way was there Champagne on every table with freshly caught Salmon on the menu ?
To all of you who didn’t manage to get to the run you missed a very good run and to you people who got to the run site ( Joel) and then went home, the same.
For me it was a long way out but! A very good run, I hope it got a T shirt.
Posted by onsec at September 26, 2006 10:34 AM