There has been no report of the actual 3000 run, but more of the celebration runs which tended to overshadow the Monday run by the amount of effort involved with 4 run sites, beer wagons, buses, and shows. For the record this is the report from the Hare's point of view.

This years Merdeka Run coincided with the 3000 run and was overshadowed by this event. Most of the Mother Hash members were occupied with the 3000 celebration runs, but the diehards of the recent years Merdeka runs, our Muhibbah Team Two members, Chris Tan (the official hare, in the centre of the picture) and Rob Stott formed an impromptu team with Wong Chee Kong and Paul 'Allo Allo' Lai to be the hares for the 3000 run. Mike 'Manis' Sweeting was around for the photo call.

   The team of hares before the run
 

The run started from Bukit Kiara Equestrian Centre the Venue for the Celebration runs and so the hares were limited to set a run in this area. For the non Malaysians 'bukit' means hill and there were lots of them in the run. The organising committee had suggested two runs, a short one for the not too fit (the drinkers) and a longer one for the fit buggers. So it was two runs, but even some could not manage the short run, short cutting back before the half hour was up. Both runs started on a common trail out of the Equestrian Centre and on the black top roads around the greenery of Bukit Kiara. We were told that these roads were for a development of bungalows for government servants, these roads have been in existence to my knowledge at least since the mid-eighties.
The shared trail after the first check continued parallel to one of the black top roads on a pleasant contour in the overgrown rubber. Eventually the trail emerged onto the road and around the water tank turning back to the second check which was where the trails split. The teams of hares split also with Paul Lai and Rob Stott laying the short run with Chris Tan and Wong Chee Kong completing the long trail.
The short run worked its way up to the 'lalang hill' before joining the road system of Bukit Kiara and back to the Equestrian Centre.
The long run continued up the hill by the power lines near the Garden School and down into Sungei Penchala, through the Kampong and then up a Mother of hills to join the short run just after the lallang hill. The runners wuold not know of the panic which set in at the run site. The short run hares were back in just over two hours and the long run hares were expected about one hour later. They arrived about two hours later claiming they were slightly disorientated at one point and must have taken over one hour to find the correct trail. Nevertheless, they were out before the runners, what a reputation if they had been caught on the 3000 run. They would have certainly gone down in the annals!
 
 

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