Remember, remember the 5th of November…. Where were our fireworks? bonfire? guys? Two weeks running the haring power couple of Alice & Blows Herself stepped up, this time along Ob Kham road, near the BJ ranch. I barely made it in time to offload beer and put on shoes ready for the off. Strangely I felt spritely at the start and put some effort in. I ran along, and opened up 100m or so lead, only to turn the corner straight into a false trail. Nice going Alice…
Turned back, and most of the hashers just stood around looking confused, so luckily I managed to find the trail just behind ABB, and again feeling spritely sprinted off to the next check, back at the road. It couldn’t be left, because that just took us back to the A-bucket, so it had to be right… WTF? So now this was Alice 2 – BMY 0. I continued pushing and again ran through the pack, and as I overtook Sloppy he questioned why I was running so hard. Check #3, was just around the corner to the right… Was it a double bluff? A triple bluff? Why wasn’t the check at the junction? I took the bait and carried on, only to hear the On-Call from back the other way… Damnit! MOFO! Alice 3 – BMY 0.
I know I was the one pushing the early pace, but with Graven, Brownie and Angry swelling the FRB ranks the pace was quick. I was managing to keep up even though there were very long stretches between checks. Angry and CW got a check wrong and Brownie, Graven and I ran along for a bit – some just behind but I don’t know who. Jeez, I was pushing to stay in touch. The trail abruptly turned left, but I left Brownie to sniff that out while Graven and I continued finding trail after what was presumably a false trail? (Alice 3 – BMY 1). The trail hit a T-junction, and turned right, to a circle. Someone got there a bit ahead of me, I ignored it and just headed left.. (Alice 3 – BMY 2).
Graven overtook and lead, then CW overtook me, and then Graven, so CW was leading. Angry came out of nowhere and sprinted past as we hit the concrete by the temple. Trail was clear up ahead, but with the nice little trail to the right, I was confident there would be a false trail – so was Graven, and sure enough we turned right, finding trail while CW did the dummy run. Alice 3 – BMY 3 – an equaliser! Was there enough time to get a result?
Over to the main road, and along again. Now Brownie and Graven overtook and were setting the pace ahead. They stopped suddenly at a false trail, and everyone behind me turned around. This was an attempted sneaky one, with true trail restarting from within 10m of the FT. That didn’t catch me, and so I’m claiming an injury time winner! (Alice 3 – BMY 4). From there I was pretty much spent. Jogging, walking, chatting as one by one I was overtaken. A different run. Some nice trails, perhaps a bit too much road, and could have done with more checks!