Hare: Danny McBride
Co-Hare: A T Pusinelli, D Mc Graham, J E McGregor
Venue: Ladang Jasmin "Air Panas", (Bindora Sdn Bhd), Kampong Hulu Kalong, Ulu Yam Baharu, Selangor.
Scribe: Colin H for Elaine Leong
Run site was a few yards from the Hot Springs behind Bundora and it was a pleasant afternoon. The afternoon started off well with the beer wagon getting stuck and requiring a push to get it back on solid ground. Now guys it might have been easier to push if you'd waited until after we'd drunk all the beer.
The run started promptly at 4:30pm by GM and we all headed down the trail between oil palms. After about 500m we came onto a fresh clearing just in time to hear the on-on call for the first check. The check broke up the hill to the left and it looked like a fair climb just to get to the trail. Needless to say all but a few of the hardy FRBs took any easy pace up the road. Robin Cox was seen heading up the hill to the right and on enquiring why he said it was most likely a right hander and that he'd find the paper just up the hill. As it was actually a left hander we didn't see Robin again.
Followed paper for a while and it just went up and up. A couple of times I heard calls of "Checking" and "On On" further up the hill but I never caught up with FRBs again. The trail just went up forever. With 7 yo Jose by my side we kept heading up the hill, passing a few out of breath young ladies and leaving a few grown men in our wake. I think we climbed for over 50 minutes.
Alas, no view at the top, just tree cover and a pigs wallow with clear evidence Sophie and Wilma had gone for a swim. From there the trail went down and then down again. Just a bit steeper than I'd like and the old knees started to play up. Steep hills do that. Jose was running and kept pestering me to keep up. Jane & Nancy passed us on the way down. Eventually we reached the valley floor and the trail headed off to the right. There was a nice road off to the left which I was tempted to take but as I didn't know the area we followed paper. It seemed like several more kms of relatively flat trail, good running if one could run, but when you can't, and it's late, and you've just climbed a f..king big hill, it seemed to drag on.
Just getting back to close to the cars when we spot the Hot Springs with Danny and crew there. Headed over for a nice soak. Nancy and Celine kindly brought over a few well earned beers and so we stayed soaking in the Hot Spring until it washed away the memories of that awful climb.
The run was followed by short and humerous circle with usuals getting a down down.
On On was at Restaurant 1688 (?) with copious quantity of delicious food for only 10rm. Triple on was at Ronnie Qs to watch the footie.
Thanks to hares for an interesting run on new trails and a great afternoon.
Posted by onsec at May 23, 2007 10:09 AM