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Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1607, Saturday March 24th 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Hares: Kii Leum, R2D2 and Cattle Prod
Misdirections: From the Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 8k and turn right before Ban Dan School then go 1.5k to the run site on the left.

The word is that this is a great run with lots of nice shady trails, some of which DO NOT APPEAR ON YARDO's DATABASE!!!!! so we may never have run them before - at least not in the last 3 or 4 years. So this is not a run to be missed.

Sunday's HH3 follow up to last weeks glorious run and party is another not-to-be-missed run and details of the directions from Hatyai can be found below. If you are coming from Songkhla, take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 8k then turn right at Wat Keow Kloy for 7.33191 kilometers and turn left into Soi Baan Nai Rai then go 1.3k and the run site is on the left scenically located under an electricity pylon. The hare is Sex Focus aka the Beaver and the run will start at 4: Off T arrival p.m.

The aviator

After, what is it now, 12 years? -- only one person has figured out how to deal with the inevitable vagaries* of an Egghead run . . . circle overhead in an ultra-light till it's over, then come down and drink the beer.

*Not to say they're not totally enjoyable to those of us stuck on the ground running them . . . really!

It's official . . . the Ides of March Run

The pack express their appreciation to the hare.

Yes, it's finally here . . . the Ides of March Run. 2,056 years and nine recces in the making! Daring new heights where no hasher has ever gone before! You'll run like a Roman Centurion, and then party like one too!

Time and date: 4 pm. Sunday, March 25
Hare: Beavershot
Misdirections: This is an HH3 run so all we can tell you is to go down Punnakan Rd. from the Hatyai end* for 3.5km, then turn right on Soi Baan Nai Rai. Turn left under the big power pylons at 1.3km and you'll see the runsite on your left.

*We trust that SH3 Trailmaster Egghead should shortly be able to provide the distance down Punnakan from the other end, at Wat Khao Kloi.

On the left, Sunday's nuptual celebration run, on the right Stick Insect's SH3 run from Saturday. Not much between them, Saturday's long run was a couple of hundred meters shorter, and they both hit about 180 meters and featured downhills-from-hell. Sunday's run had slightly more checks and a few more runners but didn't feature lunatic Myanmese with parangs hunting dogs. Saturday's run on the other hand didn't feature a Miss Hash contest nor the consumption of almost the entire Hash reserve of beer (which now stands at 4 cans!) The short runners on Sunday got in at more or less the same time as the long runners - and some way ahead of the back of the pack (go on, guess...) The short run on Saturday despite being considerably shorter, straggled in well after the long runners were hitting the beer. Just another weekend.

Newlywed nightmare

So imagine, you're celebrating the joyous occasion of your wedding and then . . . this happens. Arggh!

Anyhow, congratulations Jim & Nok. A great run and a great party. On-on!

A remarkable discovery

Your correspondent has recently unearthed a fascinating discovery: a trove of old, hand-tinted postcards of scenery from around Songkhla. Their age and provenance are unknown, but regular hashers will recognize a number of the features of the local landscape, virtually unchanged today. More to follow if anyone is interested. (As always, click to embiggen.)

It's still coming!

"On-on! It's the Ides of March!"

. . . just delayed a week!

A Sticky nuptual weekend

Sunday's HH3 run has to marginally take precedence over Saturday's Sticky run, seeing as it is a special run to celebrate the marriage of SH3's very own ex GM, Sex Sprinter who also, coincidentally, in his guise as Sex Printer happens to be HH3's GM, and Budokan who equally coincidentally is SH3's Super Pig. 

The run details are shown below in SH3 format i.e. from Songkhla:

HH3 run #576 (at a guess!), Sunday March 18th 2012, 4:00 p.m.

Hare: Kai Jeow

Misdirections: From the Ko Yo Intersection, take the new Yala Road for 9k to the run site on the right in the Tung Jaeng restaurant. 

There will be a party immediately after the run starting at 6:00 p.m. with dinner and entertainment laid on. Ladies are being advised to concentrate on making themselves look beautiful and to leave the running to the men who are excused from looking beautiful but might want to bring a change of clothes to avoid being unsightly in the nuptual photographs.

SH3's warmer for the main event, is in itself an eagerly anticipated outing, as Stick Insect is the hare, and the run site is only just around the corner from Sunday's location. Details are:

SH3 run #1606, Saturday March 17th 2012, 4:30 p.m. 

Hares: Stick Insect and a rejuvenated Pak Ma

Misdirections: From The Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 11k and turn right for 1.5k to the run site on the right on or near to the football field.

On a final note, for those of you who notice these things, has anyone else spotted the deliberate error on the wedding invitation which might just prove to be prophetic in regard to blessed unions? Or am I just being a geek? Don't answer that! 

Auto Pilot's excellent run - better late than never

Thank you Beaver for that accolade; but it wasn't me sir, honest, it was the hill wot dunnit! It's hard to go wrong on that side of the Beaverchute, and even the trail down on the other side which R2D2 and Kii Leum memorably failed to find going up late last year, was actually pioneered by Yardo and needed some pruning to prevent it going the way of all trails. But Cat's disappearance notwithstanding Auto Pilot worked well and it felt about right - 5 1/2k and just over an hour even for those who unlike this weekend's bridegroom short cut the in trail; max. elevation 234 meters for whoever found the 3rd F and total ascent 220 meters.  

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