Seriously Sticky Mango? Was that really your idea? Or perhaps did the evil Cool Balls have some influence on it? I love a nice flat hash run, which was not today… I enjoyed the flat parts, which were a 100m jog to the mountain and a 100m crawl back.
We set off running, following Semen Soars and his fantastically fit son Able Seamen. I got the first check wrong and was never to see our visitors from Saipan who swooshed past and destroyed the trail to the finish. (Only Able Seamen looked more energetic at the end).
I remember a Cool Balls run that was quite pleasant! We ran 700m across an aqueduct – and aqueducts by nature are generally pretty flat! I like aqueducts – they perform a good job and they can be spectacular engineering feats and as such can become landmarks in their own right. The thing that pisses me off about aqueducts is how it’s spelt… It is a crime against humanity… Fortunately today’s run didn’t involve any aqueducts which makes me wonder what I’m talking about – perhaps it is time for a new paragraph…
We hit the bottom of the hill after a brief jog, and then the hares did a commendable job of finding every possible peak in the vicinity. Every time I thought it was the final top, there was an extra little incline waiting. He even took us off the nice little trail to enjoy the ‘lack of view’ from the top.
Finally the hares were thwarted and we were as high as possible, at which point they fortunately hit a road…. And after the scramble up the mountain we were left with a descent down the tarmac. At the bottom, the hare had managed to find another little ridge for us to climb. WTF? From there I was walking goddammnit!
The circle was fun – Anything was the highlight for me!