Run #653 - Goldfinger @ Gasing Hill (9th Aug 2011)

Goldfinger

Date: 9th Aug 2011

Time: 6.00 pm sharp

Attendance: 60 runners

Run rating: 8/10 by James Bonk

Distance: 4.4 km

Average time to complete run: 1hr 30 mins

The RUN:

This was an average run of 4.4 km. However, the trail was made interesting and exciting with the inclusion of a circular check. At least 20 runners. including the usual front runners (Ben, Ah Heng, Big Mouth & Yak) were caught by this tricky check at the 1.7km mark. Lembek also "kena".

The trail started from 140m elevation, since our cars were parked near to the Telekom Tower. It was downhill for about 400 metres before climbing to a height of 210m. Gradient was steep in some parts. The hare then took us downhill, then uphill again going through a huge circular track before descending to the eastern side of Gasing Hill passing an Indian Temple (this is the smaller of the 2 Indian Temples in Gasing Hill).

From the Indian Temple, we turned onto a tarred-road (Jalan Kubur). As this road name says in Malay, there is a muslim cemetery nearby, though none of us mentioned anything cos now is the Chinese Hungry Ghost month...um .. anyone saw or heard anything strange??

At the 4.1km mark, we then had to climb a steep slope for 300 metres before finishing at the run site. Short, stimulating, lots of climbing in this paper trail - the hallmark of a well-planned run. Front runners came in at 7:10pm while majority of the slower runners came in at 7:50pm. 

Circle was conducted by Joint-master, Dr Lord with lots of laughter; and after many "asses" were put on ice, the party moved to the nearby Kam Kee restaurant for dinner (& beers) sponsored by the Hare. Thank you Goldfinger, but still no gold bar for us ah??

Click map for a larger view of the Garmin GPS trail ...

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