Venue: Peretak (after Kuala Kubu Baru dam) - New Running Area!
Hare: Shirley Tan
Co-Hares: Hares from HC2010 3rd Sector
Scribe: Ow Mei Mei for Hong Mei Keng who did not make the run
Comic: Soo Kan Hoy
New running site!…sounds exciting. It must be worth it even though the journey was going to be almost forever. So off we went to check out this venue. On arrival the first thing that greeted us was a good picnic area with a river. Parents and pet owners, this is your day.
Parking was a problem as the original parking place was occupied by the army when the hares went in to set the run. So they parked their vehicles at an adjacent parking field just in case. But the army had cleared the site by the time the runners came by, but of course left the bond fire still burning which was good for us as this was a kind of mosquito repellent as we had many of them here. In the meantime some of them were parked where the hares had left their cars so there was much confusion before all were brought to one common place.
As usual the GM did his job to call the start of the run. And as usual, I’m never in the front pack, but if I tried a little harder, I will be in the middle, otherwise I’ll be at the back strolling, enjoying the surroundings besides hashing with my legs and mouth. Needless to say, beautiful secondary jungle and sound of running stream along the way and of course challenging hills to conquer.
Heard from the grapevine that the first check took 25 minutes to break.
Obviously I were nowhere near the incident cos I’m still taking in the scenery and see whether I could ‘catch’ anymore beautiful butterflies (saw a few at the start).
Although the run was only 8km, I heard there were a lot of goings on and I happened to be a minor star in it too. Half way through, as I was trying to hold on to some twigs or leaves to get cross a wet patch, I felt a real stinging pain on one of my fingers and the next I know was a swell and numbness and pain of course. I continued on (as a true blue hasher), trying hard to ignore the pain.
Then I passed Virginia on the way and she said some earlier hashers were stung by bees/wasps. I see, now I know what hit me. By now I have a real swollen hand. And as I prodded on, I was breaking up in hives on my body and legs, and yuks! it’s so so itchy, and really trying to keep my fingers from scratching them.
By now I’ve lost sight of the scenery and just focus on going back as fast as I can. After another hour, I finally arrived back at about 6.30 pm and luckily still in one piece. Thanks to 2 antihistamines from the hare, my itch and drowsiness subsided. Then found out that Dave Wilson was stung by heaps of them, so he obviously was the main star.
First runner came back 6.30pm and last 10 were in at 7.30pm. At the runsite there was the normal porridge/cup-cakes and of course many many kids.
There were 8-9 tables at the on-on and the run was judged T-Shirt although the run was way past the PH3’s trend for front runner in 1hr – 1.20 hr.
Hare was rewarded for making the extra effort of setting the run at a very beautiful area of which was enjoyed by most.
What a wonderful hash despite what happened with the killer bees, and thank you Shirley and co-hares for the great effort.