The Who Did It Monkey, or was it the, "Red Herring Run"
With no hares for the Jan 2016 Monkey, out of the blue came an email from WhodiditMonkey and problem solved.
So just who are these Mystery Hares, later to claim they are the worlds greatest Monkey Hares and just what is it they have planned ??
25 brave chumps signed up for this Magical Mystery Tour of the farmlands and bush of Chonburi province, telling us via printed instructions, read to the gathered chimps (all half minds according to the Mystery Hares) by our esteemed GM who also explained that the task at hand was to solve the mystery via a series of picture clues left at the checks and back checks.
The picture clues where somewhat cryptic at times and the chumps er I mean chimps would have to use their half minds to figure out just who the worlds greatest Monkey Hares were (The more I hear and read that, the harder I find myself laughing).
So off they went on what was promised was an "Outstanding Trail" the first part being a "Challenging, but interesting" 8 kms, with "Expertly Painted" Red checks and Blue back checks (These hares are full of themselves).
A claim that the trail is marked with "Copious" amounts of paper turned out to be not entirely true, as the runners soon discovered, the hares later claiming that it had been mysteriously removed, yeah right, we've heard that before, perhaps there was a paper "Snatcher" out there or someone who was "Clueless" as to why it would be there.
A challenging trail was confirmed by some as they came to the drink stop, with Beetroot Head being the first in after approx 1hr 30mins, with all of the runners/walkers in within a 15 or 20 minute window, except for, well come on you don't need me to tell you, the hasher who is intimate with every tree and rock in Thailand and somehow magically knows where he is going on a A to B to C trail, yeap you guessed it, Lord Lucan, staggering into the drink stop around ½ hr after the others had left, after telling some other back markers that he knew where the drink stop would be, the smart ones didn't take that sage piece of advice and reached the drink stop a mere 400 mts or so later, LL taking his normal 4 km shortcut..
A further 7 kms of barbed wire, cattle, snakes, rock climbing, check and clue solving lay ahead of the motley crew before they arrived at the C site around 90 mins after leaving the drink stop, with our esteemed GM announcing he had solved the puzzle of just who these so called "Worlds Greatest Monkey Hares" were, see the series of images below that gave the game away.
Mystery Hare #1
Mystery Hare #2
Not for the first time, Arseaholic was the last one in suffering from the effects of a tough run, not as badly as he did way back on Run #11, when he staggered into the C site around 6 hours after he set off on the Drunken Monkey and I can promise him that the next run in March, the Drunken Monkey Part II, won’t thrash him the way the first one did.
All in all, an interesting concept, which I would think may surface again sometime in the future, as they say in the Classics, a good time was had by all, thank you Mystery Hares for a good day out.
On On
Bam Bam
