Those of you with long memories and nothing that passes for what ordinary people call a "life" will recall that it was exactly ten years ago that SH3 began the tradition of an especially ambitious run three weeks into June on the longest Saturday of the year. The excuse was my birthday, which is also usually right around then, and that particular year had reached one of those nice round numbers that call for heavy drinking.
The Midsummer Monster, as it soon came to be known, has been through many mutations since then, from all-out edge-of-disaster ballbreakers to mini-monsters to that thing we were supposed to feel around for inside of Egghead's underwear. I'd tell you what I found inside my pair but I'm concerned that you might be eating dinner right now.
And speaking of dinner, frankly there doesn't seem to be much appetite for a monster of any form this year. Plus, given the Fifth-Cycle a.k.a. Diamond Jubilee decrepitude of the hare himself, he'll be just as happy setting a mild little party run as you will be to run it. That's the plan anyhow, though anyone who has laid paper knows the strange things that can take place out there on the trail on Saturday morning.
Anyway, for better or worse it's happening this Saturday, June 23. The Trailmeister will doubtless provide his usual creative misdirections in a day or two, but we can reveal that it will be off Punnakan Rd., just a bit up the road to the Khuan Samrut meditation center. If you haven't been to Songkhla Hash in a while this would be a good chance to come run, eat, drink, and tell ageist jokes at the hare's expense. On-on!
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