Itchy seemed in a better mood when we arrived at the run site – better than when she’d sent the run directions in a flurry of expletives at least. Given that it had rained solidly for 16 hours, I wouldn’t have been surprised if they had called the hash off, but nonetheless a small committed field of all weather hashers assembled to see what punishment we had in store. At least the hares had thoughtfully chosen a site with a shelter, and also cleverly set the run in paper – what an inspiration!
We set off and ran through the usual run site (that doesn’t have a shelter) – curious that there was no check there, I logged that for later on! The 2nd check had us all over the place until Chuckie set off calling ONON – I chased after the wrong side of the fence. At the next V check I confused everyone when I found a check back at the same time Chuckie did. We figured out my mistake and HRA took off on a run of form with Poo, Chuckie and I chasing after him – Hollow Legs and newly named Nutcracker were also in the mix – no sign of Jeff though…
After HRA stormed through a few circle checks he was finally foxed and we regrouped with CW and Poo taking charge – the next check screwed CW, and then a great V check took Poo out, leaving me with a slight advantage. The last couple of checks are always the most important, and luckily I got them figured out. Unlike everyone else I also didn’t get lost after the On-In which meant I got plenty of drinking time before the rest got back.
Pleasant enough circle with a small compact group – we need to find some more numbers for the Sunday runs… OnOn