Skid Mark was today’s hare, and he spent the past few days highlighting the closeness of the Ping River – could be interesting. I was late showing up, but they didn’t wait for me, so only Skid Mark & Horny Monkey (allegedly injured) were there with Lung La waiting for the off. Wondering if I would see the pack again, those fears were shortlived as less than 100m into the run I came up to Frozen Dick! It turned out that while they didn’t wait for me at the start, everyone waited at the first circle check. Chuck Wao had been to find the On-In, Green Pussy seemed to be running off in all directions, and HRA had clearly twice ran past paper distracting everyone away from the trail.
One check down and we were jogging along the bank of a small canal. With some inside information I let HRA set the pace, only for him to come up to some Skiddy Sticks – False Trail! It was back along the path to the obvious trail that headed out into the rice fields. Chuck Wao was thwarted by the floods while Square Rooter and Jungle Chim took a dip in a deep irrigation ditch.
Everyone stayed pretty close together, mostly due to some well placed Skiddy Sticks – HRA again getting caught with Bone Hur in place to get us back on track. The final set of skiddy sticks caught me in a deep ugly hole with nowhere to go. Back out to the obvious trail heading towards the obvious 15 storey derelict building chosen as the A site. Plenty of shiggy on the On-In, and another water hazard to cross – ironic giving the proximity to Green Valley Golf Course.