SH3 celebrates Jessica Alba week: the silicon valley run

Anyone who has been around SH3 for a while will know that the location of Saturday's runsite, Napong, nestles comfortably between the twin peaks of Kao Lam and Kao Wong, and that unlike this week's pin up of choice, neither of these owe their upstandingness, so to speak, to the wonders of modern surgery! But in common with Miss Alba (or is it Mrs? One cannot be sure these days) the terrain offers an inviting valley up which most of us have at some time or other felt the urge to lay a trail.

Enough of these subtle hints! The SH3 run this weekend will be:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1720, Saturday May 31st 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Hares: Egghead and Harram
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4k and turn left for 5.2k then left for 500m to the run site near the big sala.
Details of the the whereabouts of HH3 this Sunday below. Star Soccer has apparently succumbed to the pressure to set a run and will do so in the Songkhla-friendly location of Sala Hin Kiang: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 6k, then left for 1.5k and right for 500 meters to the runsite on the left.

And this is Jessica Alba . . .

. . . if she were a Hatyai Hasher.

5 Star Hashing......the morning after the run

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This is Jessica Alba . . .

. . . with her boobs hanging out (or at least peeking through). Any objections?

Living la Vida Loca

Hash mascot K.Y. showing his dance moves.

1719 - a hounds eye view

Perhaps not quite the run the hare set and certainly not that which he intended, after an early bath knocked out the spare GPS as well as his smart phone, rendering him incommunicado as well as directionally clueless. But the result was declared generally satisfactory with the front end of the pack mildly enthusiastic and the late arrivals less complimentary. 

Total distance was measured at 6.1k with the total ascent just under 300m and the maximum height 189m. But some indication of the difficulty factor can be gleaned from the fact that the run took just under 1 hour 30 for the FRB's with Fuckin'Lucky and Buk Toy closer to 2 hours. Much of that time was spent laboriously seeking the hash equivalent of the North-West passage, a route along the ridge above Ban Chumpor, which Stick Insect swears he found but which perished with the demise of the GPS. He came within 300m of his goal before being forced down into the valley to ascend more or less by the conventional route although eschewing the nice path up the valley in favor of laboriously pruning a "trail" up the river bed. 

The descent was via the now largely concreted Chumpor 1 with a final check at the bottom which seemed to defy any form of directional logic but was actually only about 300m from the run site. Short Screw who got away with a combination of short and long runs was somehow first home closely followed by Sex Sprinter, Beaver and a dog-encumbered GM who got away with some GPS guidance over the final stretch - look high office has its benefits!

As befitted a birthday run, the hare provided free beer and the beer truck did precious little business. With the pussies otherwise engaged, only City Tits and the returning Handjob contributed food, and he apres-run was truncated by a rumor of a visit to the ailing After Ours in hospital. Happily she was later released and was at home before the curfew fell. 

Well! A Donkey!

All the information about this week's run (including the inscrutible illustration above)  comes straight from the horse's... well maybe that should read, donkey's mouth. So in keeping with our fine tradition of reproducing run directions verbatim, here are this weeks SH3 details:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1720, Saturday May 24th,2014, 4:30 p.m.

Hare: Stick Insect

Misdirections: Quote From Khao Saeng, take the Chana road for 7.1km (immediately past the 7km. milestone), turn right, into Soi Chumpho 11. Go 600m to the end of the Soi. Park in the coconuts. Unquote 

O.K.? Comprendo? Savvy? No need for clarification? No one bothered by the flouting of our traditional nomenclature? 

Good! (But just in case you are, he means the Khao Saeng intersection and the old Yala road!)

Directions to HH3's run on Sunday appear below and are as inscrutible as the picture of the donkey in the hole above... Now wait a minute, what's the other name for a donkey?

From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.6k and turn keft
for 8 k then right into Th. Poonakan for about 5.5k then turn left at the turning
before the turning before Wat Tung Nai!

Some vagueness dispelled

Message from the hare reads: "รายละเอียด แค้มปิ้ง วันเสาร์
จะมีขึ้นหรือไม่ ขึ้นอยู่ที่ ถ้า ช่วงบ่ายฝนไม่ตก ก็จะมีแค้มปิ้ง
แต่ใครที่คิดจะมีแค้มปิ้ง ก็ควรเตรียม เต้นท์ และ อื่น ๆ 
ไปจอดรถไว้ที่บ้าน บักทอย เวลา 3.00 น. แล้วขึ้นรถไปยังที่แค้มปิ้ง" 

Which roughly translated probably means that the camping will be dependent on whether or not it rains, but those wanting to camp should take a tent etc. There will be a convoy leaving Buk Toy's place at 3:00 p.m. for those who want to drive up the hill to the camping site.

It's all gone vague

The Scum's directional department is currently undergoing some minor problems with its run-detectors, aggravated by the absence of the occupant of it's vernacular desk who is currently recuperating from some minor throat surgery in a location known only to the directional department who has been sworn to secrecy by the vernacular desk.
So the best that can be reported is that Saturday's SH3 run will be approximately located as follows:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1718, Saturday 17th May 2014, 4:30 p.m.
Hares: (to include) Sex Sprinter and Buk Toy
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersecton take the new Hatyai road for 8.5k and turn left, then follow the road for ... 1.5k (?) and turn left and follow the road/track for...(? - a distance), to the run site about half way up the hill.
The run will be followed by a camp-out at a location known only to the hares, but probably at the top of the hill shown above, which is accessible only to 4-wheel drives with a death wish (see the Hatyai Hash, facebook page, รวมพลคนแฮช (สงขลา) for the gory details!) More information will be posted as it becomes available, but those interested in camping out should bring a tent and likely some food and beer as well which will be carried up to the point illustrated above in a 4-wheel drive, while mere mortals will be asked to walk up from the main run site.
Sunday's HH3 run is also only approximately located at present with the run site likely to be on the southern side of the main Phatthalung-Chana highway, accessible from the traffic lights at Nam Om. Rough directions are: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left then go about 13k to the junction with the Chana road and turn right for about 5k to the traffic lights at Nam Om. Turn left and follow signs to the run site. Hares: currently unknown. However this is probably a run not to be missed as its predecessor about 8 years ago was run deep in completely virgin territory and as well as some great running, featured the only durian stop known to hashing, manned by luscious ... young ladies (ok, Superpig) offering fragrant fruit to the exhausted runners. Mmmmm!