Royal Lake Club Harriers: Run 825 Aug 5 is an In Run (RLC)

RLC Harriers Run 825

Hares : Dr Yap Chung Mui & Cecelia

Runsite : Lake Garden & its vicinity

Weather : Dry weather

The two Joint Masters, Tweedledee and Tweedledum aka Tommy Chin and

Jim Poh flagged off the run promptly at 5.30 pm according to the slow

clock (whatever happened to the RM5 IKEA clock that Uncle Yap bought?)

hanging above us.

The paper trail led us out across the road to the foot of Tugu Negara

(National Monument) where there was a check (why do hares set a check

so near the start when all the hashers are still bunched together?).

This was not so quickly broken as the trail resumed innocuously by the

side of a "jungle". This patch used to house some hostile hornets and

bees. Fortunately, they no longer live there; probably chased off by

the noise from the construction in the adjacent lots. We ran through

this patch to emerge at the junction of the ring road where there was

another check.

Helter-skelter we searched in vain for the resumption of the run

route. Wendy Lum had declared the Dragon Trail a false trail and

according to Rule Number One, Wendy is never wrong. Rule Number Two

states that when Wendy is wrong, refer to Rule Number One.

Fortunately Uncle Yap and Arthur Hoi persisted and found the trail

which quickly went upwards by the side of the fencing for Parliament

House. It was a steep climb and then on to the road which meandered

through the exclusive residential areas of Jalan Duta before coming

home. Good moderate run of some 6.5 km with Michael Kuan being FROP at

65 minutes.

The Circle was another boisterous and entertaining affair with hashers

being hauled up variously for having a haircut, singing song in the

Karaoke Room, having small nuts and not wearing RLC hash attire.

It was also announced that the planned Carlsbery Brewery Run has been

cancelled due to a mistake (not ours) in booking and replaced by a

Brewery Visit on the evening of Monday 25 August 2014. Please make

your own way there; no sports shoes and clothing please, just smart

casual.

On-On-On was at the Bunga Raya where the hares gave a good (but dry)

spread. Ah Lum Koh again failed to bring that bottle of whisky that he

had pledged (for the Janda Baik outing) but Tommy Chin just happened

to have a bottle of Chivas Regal in his bag. Phew! Saved by

Tweedledee.

We dined in fine air-con ambience and had a jolly good time. On! On!

Tuesday, 5 August 2014