How times change. Here's a typical front-of-main-pack shot from about six years ago, featuring Pole Polisher, In the Post (a.k.a. The Kid with Glasses), Cheap Speed, and unidentified black and white blobs. Not only do none of them run with us regularly any more (well, maybe the blobs do), but the trail they're coming down here, at the end of the Baan Daan school road, is all but unrecognizable these days. First it was buried under construction of a fancy new paved road, which in the Thai way has now been left to fall apart. Then they dug a huge quarry, so that everything along the right edge of this shot is now a gigantic mud pit. Fortunately there's still some good running in the hills just behind . . . but for how long?Here's an enlargement of the blobs (click for larger version). Hang on, that black one is Snapper. But any guesses who the other is?
Well, I'm still here in Bangers, thanks for asking.
ReplyDeleteBut shit...druing the anniversary run a few years ago I was stunned to find myself on the cement road that used to be the trail behind Prem's place. And now these trails are destroyed as well?
Pretty soon the only good runmning country is gonna be around Egg's place...or Sadao!
Seems to me that the pace of clearing, quarrying, and road building has stepped up in the past couple years. In some cases the new roads are giving us access to new areas, but overall it's definitely cutting into our running territory. Depressing to think what it'll be like in 10 or 20 years (but then even more depressing to think what we'll be like then . . . )
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