A hashing icon

We've had a deluge of requests (well, one) for more photos of Gan Yao. But on the advice of the TOS marketing department, we present today instead this sensitive portrait of one of the great figures in SH3/HH3 hashing, Lat Duang ("Hemorrhoid"). On-on!

The swinging err... fifties

Guess who? Yes, it's our very own GM and his immediate predecessor in their pop star days back in the swinging sixties (ed. I thought we were in the swinging sixties now!) who will be teaming up for another reunion on Saturday not far from their last gig - in fact at exactly the same place, on the super highway behind Sai Kao Village.

Details are:

SH3 run #1620, Saturday, June 16,  2012: 4:30 p.m.

Hares: Yardstick and R2D2

Misdirections: From the Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 16k and turn right (at Wat Kun Tong). Follow the road for 3.5k  and turn left immediately after the big tree, then follow signs for 1.7k to the run site. If you are coming from Hatyai, take the right turn at the Nam Noi traffic lights and follow the road for about 12k, then turn right just before the big tree.

Sunday's HH3 run is a variation on a theme of Poonakan. Current information suggests that if you are coming from Songkhla, you should take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 8k then turn right at Wat Keow Kloy for 7.5k and turn left into Soi Baan Nai Rai then follow the road to the run site. The hares are Sex Star and Sex Au Au.

The inimitable K.Y./Vaseline

A lose is a terrible thing to mind

Gan Yao, on a run he admits to having no memory of. (In his defence: It was a whole four days ago.)

Run 1619....

...was 6.3k without the checks, 7.8k with them; the total ascent was 343m and the maximum height reached, 224m just above the third 360. It had 5 checks, 1 check-back and 8 false trails The first runner (Fu Fu: eat yer heart out Beaver!) took 1 hour 13 minutes. The short run was 2.8k and reached a maximum elevation of 65m from a starting elevation of 37m. Stick Insect liked it. Comments?

150 lays

If memory serves correctly (and a little bit of help from the new Hash Cash would help here) This weekend's SH3 run is Egghead's 150th lay which is probably a good excuse for a free beer or two. The run itself will befit the occasion and as we write, teams of bulldozers are reworking the hills above Sai Kao to provide a completely new experience in an area that we've run in once or twice before.

Details are:

SH3 run #1619, Saturday 9th June 2012, 4:30 p.m.

Hares: Egghead, Harram, White Meat, Pink Floyd and Ma Mick

Misdirections: From the Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 16k and turn right before Wat Anthong. Go 3k and turn left for about 800 meters to the run site. (If you want to approach it from the Hatyai direction, from the Nam Noi traffic lights go to the big tree at Sai Kao. Keep the tree on your left and go 500 meters then turn right for 800 meters to the run site.)

Sunday's HH3 run is being set by Nicheow from the location of his new garden center which is on Poonakan Road about 6k beyond Wat Keow Kloy on the left (Take the 4.7k left turn off of the old Hatyai road for 8k and turn right for 6k).

Stick's 1000th

Click to see it in all its glory: 7km long, plus 2km of false trails, of which there were about ten. Total ascent: 460m. Highest point: 170m (top of the first and last hills). First runner back was Sex Sprinter in 1:14, followed by the celebratory Insect himself.

On-on to 2000!

Full Moon Hash: the facts

By popular demand, here are the latest set of runners for the Full Moon Hash, and what it cost to feed and refresh them after last months "special offer" run.

Beaver Sex Toy

No! No! No! Not that kind of beaver sex toy! This week's hares, Beaverslut, Sex Boy and Buk Sprinter... or something like that.

As advertised last week this will be a three-run weekend culminating in a camp-out on the hill above Prem's place. Perversely, the Songkhla run is in Hatyai and the Hatyai run on Sunday is in Songkhla! Saturday's SH3 run is:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1618, Sat. June 2, 2012, 4:30 p.m.
Hare: Beavershot
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 8k then right for about 3k to the run site on the left

Sunday's HH3  and HFMH3 runs are both being set by Toy Boy and Sex Printer and will be from a site above Prem's place: From the Ko Yo Intersection take the new Yala road for 800 meters and turn left. Follow the road for about 1k, going up the hill to the right before the National Library car park. Then follow the road round to the left behind the Home of Faith up the hill for another kilometer or so to the run site.
The HH3 run/circle will proceed as normal although without the usual feeding frenzy in between. After the HH3 circle those who are still able can do the HFMH3 run following which dinner will be served accompanied by modest amounts of free beer. Contributions of food, beer and other intoxicants would however be much appreciated.  Registration for each run will be 50 Baht,or a special offer price of 100 Baht for both.

KY's worst nightmare

It has all the hallmarks: the apparently random route, the sudden changes of direction, the in and out trails perilously close. It has KY written all over it; except that this was not Sunday's comparatively well-organised HH3 run, but Stick Insect's 999th on Saturday. The GPS that never lies records it as 7.5k but that includes the short run diversion which cut out the "hill" that never quite lived up to its billing. The apres run included a BBQ washed down with a couple of bottles of Aborigine's Armpit or whatever the bubbly stuff was called, as well as free birthday beer and a circle that featured a flying birthday cake.
So it's on-on to the 1000th next Saturday, and a Sunday HH3/HHFM3 double run at Prem's place with a camp out to follow. Like the man said: three times the fun!