Royal Lake Club Harriers: Run 870 Jun 16 is in TTDI

RLC Harriers Run No 870

Run Site : Rumah Bakti, TTDI

Hares : Lim Boon Hiong & Anne

Weather : Fine weather

As we gathered at the familiar spot, it was evident that many of our

die-hard regulars were missing, mostly travelling to others places

like Allen Tan in the UK, Steven Oon in Pangkor Island, Playboy Choo

playing somewhere, etc. Nevertheless the 40-odd of us pressed on up

the hill and into the cool shades of tropical trees.

The trail meandered to the left and allowed runners to run parallel to

one another. I chose the upper route (never like to lose the height so

painfully gained) and could see the rest running below. On and on we

went until we reached the summit where pieces of triangular paper

appeared, indicating the short route back. Of course, I followed that

whereas the macho runners like Peter Leong, Steven Yong and Wendy Lum

opted to punish themselves further. Their route took on more up's and

down's whereas the triangular route was almost a beeline to the

run-site. I was FROP at 65 minutes.

The regular FROP was again Quiksilver Fox Mike at 75 minutes, followed

quite quickly by the rest. Alas, there was no young chikoo from the

Poh family to push the old fox. Most came back in the diminishing

daylight and we tucked in heartily into the finger food galore ...

chicken legs, pows, kuehs and Duck King's duck. The Circle was

slightly enlivened by the arrival of the Chairman, Burns who nowadays

is not running but only eating and drinking (you are going to grow

fatter) and Buffalo Lee. Try as the various bomohs and quasi-bomohs,

the beer just could not be finished. So the rest was poured into a

Coleman and brought to the restaurant.

One issue was discussed and it was overwhelmingly accepted that one

run per month wef September 2015, will be declared an open run with

nobody assigned as hare and the food at the On On On paid for on a

pro-rata basis. Only two , Veloo and Yong Tow Foo objected but they

graciously accepted the will of the majority to give the proposed

scheme a try. The whole idea of the change is not to burden each

hasher with more than one hare duty per year.

At the restaurant in Uptown, we walloped the mee-hoon curry, the

chicken and all the other goodies provided by the generous hares;

actually too much, judging by the number of tar-pow. Yes, we managed

to finish all the beer left over from the Circle and polished off

another bottle of Green Label.

Indeed, a lovely evening with good friends, good run, good fellowship,

good food, good beer and good whisky; what more can a person want?

This is life, c'est la vie as the French would say. On! On!

Tuesday 16 June 2015