HH3 saves the day

Ok, so SH3-1919 isn't necessarily the run that you are going to want to carry with you as you slip into senile oblivion as representing the zenith of hash perfection. But then HH3 went a long way towards healing the wounds. To begin with, any lingering after-burn from Saturday was dispelled as HH3 turned out more than 30 marshals (count them!) at 5:00 a.m. for the Songkhla Triathlon, who variously handed out rubber bands or plastic medals and generally kept the 5 and 10 k'ers in line, Then for some it was off to set a run or two which was completed in good time for the HH3 short-cut-crew to basically ignore the paper and run where they felt it ought to have been in the first place. But justice was done as Sex Printer in seeking to take one short cut too many at the last F, ended up rejoining the beginning of the run and limping in 20 minutes after everybody else.

The long run (cerise ) was about 7.2 k expanding to 8.4k with the 8 F's, while Jumbo logged the short run (green + cerise lower half) at a whopping 6.3k. Despite that he was the first at the beer stop on 45 minutes with most of the short runners arriving before the short-cutting duo of Sex Printer and Toy Boy arrived from the wrong direction, followed by the long run pack who drifted in and polished off all the beer within about 10 minutes. The final section then took 20 minutes to complete with a lot of the short runners realizing that the final F was right on top of their out trail and not bothering to check at all and thus tempting many of the long runners to do the same.

The dusty run site sent the assembled throng off into the rubber for dinner and the circle, which went on forever particularly once the hare was dumped on the ice as upcoming events were again discussed.  Registrations for the outstation run are at about the 30 level so if you are going to be joining you need to register next weekend which is your last chance.A good farang turnout seems to be guaranteed though, as Jumbo and Sex Beaver were added to the list today