Cary, you keep calling this a "pre-run."

I'm assuming that by this you are referring to the fact that you were pre-running the trail for some other excursion by someone.

But what I'm confused about is that at the time of this incident, you were already out of SCCX and other people from SCCX "happened" to be out there at the exact same time you were.

So riddle me why and how you happened to be out "pre-running" for a run that you were not invited to be on, and "happened" to be out in an area where a group of people from a club to which you no longer belonged also "happened" to be?

I mean let's look at this rationally:

You were out of SCCX.
You had burned your bridges with SCCX and completely alienated yourself from the group
You were basically stalking these guys out in the desert.
They had grown tired of dealing with whatever situation you had created with them and they we not going to go out of their way to do anything for you.

Is there something else that I'm missing here?