Everyone seems to be taking this “no beer
in temples” thing quite seriously. Som had decided to start
the run in a tiny soi next to the usual restaurant where she
likes to sing at the OnOnOns. Nobody could find the soi. The
directions of course were wrong – go down Soi 55 then take
the first soi on the right should have read DON'T go down
soi 55 but take the NEXT soi on the right. In the end, we
all ended up in the car park of Wat Gaew Pitak looking for
the hares. Many suspected that the soi in question was in
fact the Monday market that was full of cars and people.
No paper was to be found. Someone checked
back onto the main road and found paper and we ended up on a
five minute trek up the main street, down soi 57 and back
onto the klong path that we could have taken in the first
place. Then a check, a long check that took a while to solve
but got us running through goat shit and crushed tiles. For
some strange reason, the ground substrate in the Wat Kaew
Pitak area is often particularly nasty and today was no
exception. Another long check found us across the fields in
the middle of the open area between On Nut and Chalerm
Prakiert roads – wet, muddy and horrible.
Cengis' commented the previous Saturday
that he would not come to the run because it was too far
from Bang Kruay and he would still have to do the same
shitty shortcut. He turned up in spite of the distance to do
the same shitty shortcut, even thought the run was quite
different from normal. Eventually, we ended up back at the
car park of Wat Kaew Pitak, most people ignoring the trail
to the right as their cars were straight ahead.
We made our way back over the road to the
tiny soi with no dry place to park. Steve Furst, out on the
trail came back to the temple to find nobody was there.
OnOnOn with Som on the M.I.C as usual. Good run.
