24 January 2010 http://harenohair.blogspot.com/2010/01/24-january-2010.html
SH4, Venice Hills
Ahhh……..another week passed silently while I was occupied with work commitments. Hashing, to me now, is like a special delicacy – can only be had once in a awhile. Like the Damansara H3’s anniversary do on Saturday, I could only managed to reach the run site at about 8:30pm! With most food has been eaten up and many were already ‘not themselves’ by the time I said hello. How I crave to get a good run.
The day’s run was kind of easy as a circle would be held. Though I passed the run site at 4:30pm to collect the ‘king’s seat’, I still reached the run site at 5pm sharp and started the run 10mins later. Me Mrs was ‘lazy’ again when she saw some ladies standing around not in running attire, also the last encounter with some ‘friendlies’ here had put her off.
Running from the back, I managed to catch up with the back pack soon enough and passing the middle pack before the half way point while doing the only killer climb of the day. The climb was fantastic and it was my chance to catch up with many. Usual ‘poking around’ the ‘leaning statues’ and the ‘ground gazers’, we had some lighter moments to soften the ‘hard climb’. It was very soon that we at the top and was heading east downhill to a steep valley. Checking was heard and soon enough the check was broken on the opposite hill by walking along a small creek. While downhill, ‘KK’ was in the way and without warning of ‘springs’, each and every small tree of twigs he held were springing back at me. He shared some light moments causing some ‘slow moving traffic’. Alas, we were on another steep climb that was not long and reached the top to see that we were on the home trail. Running on the home trail was quite a sweater as we pushed faster forward. We were back in 5:55pm. Food was served and beers were drunk, we left around 11pm while the circle ended much earlier at 8:30pm!
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17 January 2010 http://harenohair.blogspot.com/2010/01/17-january-2010.html
SH4 run in Broga
Many would be smiling in delight if this area's run site have been chosen, some would snarl with fear. All in all, it's a good place to run in - with good climbs and good home trails that could be stretched kilometers. So, the day's run was at the back of the temple after the famous BBQ fish restaurant and on the piece of empty land. The weather was great with the sun slightly shadowed by some clouds and the crowd was good.
Me Mrs was speculating where the run site would be when driving towards Broga and was hoping the Rabbit Farm but was disappointed to see no signs there. She opted not to run after reaching the run site, stories of the 'friendlies' and witnessed some 'pulling out' have put her off immediately.....hehehe...my chance for a good sweat out!
I was late again and only started 10mins later. It was a good warm up long, slow gradient climb heading to the waterfalls. I heard the checking calls and the OnCalls on a back check that I caught up with the pack in the middle with the FROP whizzing around the slow pack. The sweat factory started and many were seen to be bogged down by their lack of stamina, I was also one of these!....hehehe......
The trail brought the pack downhill towards a ravie with a creek, the downhill was fairly steep and the queues were long, everyone taking turns to negotiate with the steep. There were some 'wild boars' that bashed and 'rolled' down not wanting to wait in line. Crossing the creek, the first killer climb waited in silence as the pack was 'howling' when looking at the steep uphill tasks that was made visible with the sporadic runners up front.
Finally, reaching the top of the first killer climb - amazements, the 'wows', the 'huhs' and the 'aiyos' were abundant. It was not the top but a sort of like a 'rest platform' for more steeper killer climbs! I was on my slowest pace with each breath and step up the Big Brother. There were many 'leaning statues' and 'ground gazers', slowly and patiently I went to reach the top at 6pm. Upon reaching the 'highway', it was a run for all home trail until we were 'diverted' to another home trail that was dreaded - steep and nothing to hold downhill. A short less than a kilometer run to reach the run site in 1hr25mins.
We waited for the last sweeper to be back in the cool breezy evening with some beers and some 'bulls'. One 'Guava fruit' was stung by some 'nasties' and was 'reacting indifferently' had 'APhat' driving her to get some jab. The beers and 'bulls' saw the last sweeper out at 7:30pm while the 'stungee' was back about 8pm.
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