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Tiu Ken Leng Hare - Hopeless, volunteered at the last minute and flew in from the UK that morning We left Central in that pre-typhoon, still heat haze glare and emerged from the underground in Tiu Keng Leng to find the sky pitch black and menacing. Inflato - "Thunderbolts & Lightening, very very frightening" The hare said the amber rain earlier might have taken out the first 2km of markings before he got to using hell bank money. So the instructions were to ignore the first 5-way check and head straight up Chui Leng Road and turn left up the 500 steps, Inflato will show you the way. Where's Inflato ? He's already gone and started the run. So much for being shown the way then. Most of us managed the left turn to go up to the Wilson Trail stage 3 on Cheung Lung Tin - except for Gobi Lo who somehow managed to get on trail bypassing the service reservoir and O King Road From there it was right and back down to cross the road and head over Black Hill (304m). This was where you have that dilema ascending a hill into an oncoming lightning storm. Fortunately it was all cloud to cloud strike so we could take in the dramatic vista before the shiggy descent down to the 'steps carved into rock' and onto the ¿Hawaii trail?. Straight forward running past the turnoff we were meant to take, which brought most everyone back together again before the zig-zag descent down the terraced rockface to street level and on home into Tiu Keng Leng. A good fast run with most of the pack together and a surprising amount of trail marking intact considering the weather Plenty of time for beersies and showers before heading on to the 'regular' Hoy Yin Seafood in the Metro Town shopping arcade At dinner 'Number 2' then took the conversation in a serious scatalogical direction by telling us his blog idea was to be called In/Out where he would take before and after pictures of his food - like really 'after' pictures... just before the flush..... That set off tales of very effective ways of getting diarrhoea - Inflato is a Giardiasis man but he says Flagyl is a very effective treatment Smallbone recommended BBQ scorpion skewers after setting the Tsing Tao Beerfest hash run in 2008 to really experience that loss of control sensation... Fortunately the down downs started Down downs by Octopussy All those who decided to ignore the "left at the second level of the 500 steps" Hare - last minute step in... not enough lightning run Hare - for making sure everybody knows just how righteous he is as he was returning from London on the same day and also setting in a thunderstorm. Yes the halo is glowing Thermal Dick - for bringing on the storm as we all left our work places and the weather was fine until we reached the A and TD always brings a storm. Bobbledick - for also coming back from London today but NOT setting a run Bobbledick - for now falling behind Hopeless after 900 runs Returnees Non-runners - Yummy Mummy, Smallbone Non-runner on trail - Thermal Dick Inflato - supposed to show us how to get to the first hellbank money but ran off before we finished the briefing Lightning conductors - Bobbledick, Macau Drunk FRB - Pole Dancer Jonathan 'number two' - second in Special mention 4th place - Pig Fokker Returnees to the bash - Pig Fokker, Cupid Stunt, Hand Solo, Smallbone Glasses trio - Brother Anus running in thunderstorm with glasses therefore can’t see through them, Bobbledick wearing leopard print glasses with sticker on it, Cupid Stunt for wearing glasses on the back of his head Brother Anus - saying he got lost at the 'Boulder with stairs cut into them'... um... there was no boulder with stairs cut into them... those glasses ?? Screwtop - pearl necklace award for ‘going down faster’ than Thermal Dick Hopeless - new shoes and socks! Teabag down down Hopeless DD - Smallbone for playing golf all day getting kicked out of the house for being too drunk and being banished to LSW Jonathan DD - little boy in restaurant couldn’t help calling ‘Gweilo, gweilo’ when we entered restaurant so all ‘gweilos’ have DD. Inflato DD - fans of the ‘All blacks’ most of the men stand up... hmm Hopeless DD - Screwtop's 50th run And the hash song...
6.33km 54mins
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