A familiar runsite – Sloppy had set a good run from here a few weeks back, and I remembered the infamous CH3 1000 run curfuffle. I missed the signs to the runsite, but found it on autopilot. Songthaew arrived with seconds to spare and we were off. I’m not sure that Sloppy even heard the first circle check before he was off to the left on paper. He knows this area well, and was racing off like a badly trained golden retriever in a rabbit field! Pretty quickly it was clear we weren’t going around the lake, but it would be a loop around the lower grounds – similar to the 1000 run (strava actually matched the run to a run from September 2013!
The lead rotated nicely, with everyone getting checks wrong. I had my turn at the front, and couldn’t help be laugh when Sloppy checked down a hill, then had to climb back up, only to loop back to where he had just been. He’s a good sport and kept going. I got the next one wrong and spent 6-7 checks trying to catch up as it seems Piggy nailed a few in succession.
We hit the road, and it was called to the left. Chuckie, Piggy & Tasty making an error of following the road towards home, and missing the trail to the right. Into the rice fields and Sloppy was on fire. Finally there was a check that foxed everyone. When it wasn’t called to the left, I figured we had to be heading over towards the road on the other side of the fields, but wasted a lot of time looking for paper to get there. Amazingly I got there just as Scooby led the pack as the hares had intended.
A false trail to the right, and I felt like I’d done enough exercise. Really good set that rotated the lead nicely – cheers!