Run #1650: The Afterbirth

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Afterbirth? Did I say that? I meant aftermath. The long run was about 7.4km, or 8km+ if you also did the unnecessary parts. Total ascent was 220m. First back was Sex Sprinter in 1:03 but he got so comprehensively off course on the first two-thirds that he really doesn't count. I think Palm Job was the first one in who'd done pretty much the whole thing. Not that we keep track or anything. Incidentally, first to arrive at the beer stop, 6km into the run, was the now shockingly fit Perky. He must be young or something.

The idea of the long run was an easy run with tough checks, and it seemed to get good reviews. The idea of the short run was something as quick and easy to lay live as possible, so of course it was crap -- sorry about that. Gan Yao disappeared into an alternative universe of his own, as he does from time to time, but he didn't seem too upset about it. There was plenty of food and endless beer until, of course it ran out. That's the problem with endless: when the end inevitably comes, you're not expecting it.

P.S. Somehow Smeghead didn't get welcomed back properly as a returning runner. Where's our hospitality gone?

Your cute'n'cuddly beaver for this week

This weeks SH3 outing, which the hare describes as kind and gentle, is:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers' run #1650, Saturday, 19th January 2013, 4:00 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 (at Wat Keow Kloy, into Punnakan Road) for 1.2k then left for 500 meters to the run site on the left.

Directions for Sunday's HH3 run have now emerged and are appended above. Official SH3 directions would read: From The Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 6k, then left for 1.5k then right for 500m to the run site at sala hin keang on the left. Dog advisory note. The run site is not dog friendly being located on a junction of a fairly busy track and a road. The runs from this run site also have a nasty tendency to end up on one or other of the local roads. Be warned - bad luck tends to come in threes, and we're on two!

Farewell Pigloid

The run in pictures

Flowerpot Man arrives on the beer truck. He was narrowly to avoid icing after he admitted taking it easy on the run to save himself for his social life in the evening. Mostly we were just envious.

Kii Leum did end up on the ice, for erratic parenting. Of course his kid is turning out a lot better than he did, so he must be doing something right. He also told us the traditional way to compliment a Dutch woman: "You're as fat as a pig!"

Bitch and Master. (The Master is the one in front.)

At last we get a hot girl on the hash and all she wants to do is sell us fruit.

Hares R2D2 and Perky set a most satisfying run in an area that seems to change every time we visit it. 

Yardo was thanked for his almost one year of service as SH3 Grandmaster. What he doesn't know is that in just two weeks, under the light of the full moon at midnight in a ceremony featuring the sacrifice of a live goat, he will be inducted into the mysterious ranks of THE CRONIES.

Ladies, be careful of this man. His dog will get your dog pregnant.

The amateur way to cut open a coconut.

The professional way.

This seems to come dangerously close to violating the great philosopher Meatball's famous dictum, "Never eat anything bigger than your head."

What we do best

Great run: 7.5k, exactly 1 hour if your name is Sex Sprinter and you short cut down the road - a few more minutes if you did the honest thing and followed the paper. Maximum elevation was 48m. A bit short in the check department which meant that for most of the long run pack it was all running with no breaks. No complaints about the 4.1k short run with the more substantial short run pack mostly following the long runners home. Beaver was selected by the magic cube and ran an impeccable circle, even icing our late lamented GM without incident.  The food was wonderful and  the villagers were on hand to supply us with lamyai and fresh coconuts. Plans were laid for a double run and camp out at a location not far from today's run site on the day of the full moon in 2 weeks time. Sweetness and light prevailed. The dogs all survived and there was not a lemming in sight!

The other end of the track

By sheer coincidence, this week's Songkhla  run will begin more or less where Kii Leum's voortrek ended up last week. Details are:
SH3 run #1649, Saturday, January 12th 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Hares: R2D2 and Perky
Misdirections: From the Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 8k and turn right before Ban Dan School. Go about 1.5k along the road to the run site.

 Nice clear map for HH3's run on Sunday, although having a brain which sees the world like Pablo Picasso would help. Official misdirections would probably look like: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 10k and turn left at the Nam Noi traffic lights. Follow the road for 3.5k then turn right, and follow the road for about 3k then turn right, and follow the road for 1k to the run site in the crematorium.

The Not a Run, or What it Could Have Been

This is the route that made up Run #1648, but it could well have been the route, as shown in the following image, in part anyway, as it would have started and ended on the New Yala Road. Check C05 was where Sex Sprinter came undone, being about 350m from the out trail, and after the ON ON had already been called on paper. Always a problem when setting runs on narrow ridges, but the hares DO know a run where it would have been nigh impossible to shortcut, even a certain hare couldn't find a shortcut. Of course it would have taken about four hours to run, and we wouldn't have had to worry about running out of beer, as there wouldn't have been any returning runners to drink any of it.

Don't forget, if there are any volunteers to fill the currently vacant post of SH3 GM, feel free to come forward this Saturday and you will be democratically voted on, before gladly being bestowed this honourable post. Otherwise it will probably be left to the wisdom of THE CUBE.

This is not a rehash

Despite a recce that sounded like a cross between Where's Waldo and Brokeback Mountain, it was a fine run out and back the ridge over Prem's place. Returnees included Flowerpot Man, Wiwi, and, as shown in this dashing pose, Fuckin' Lucky, visiting from Angola by way of Canada. Please hares, now give us the GPS track so we can see how Sex Sprinter managed to get back onto the out-trail just before we headed homeward down the hill.

Sunday's Runsite

On the anything you can do... principle, Sex Printer will attempt to negotiate the recently well used slopes of Ko Hong again on Sunday. The run starts at 4:00 p.m. For visiting aliens unaware of the location of Suan Hatyai: From the Ko Yo intersection, take the old Hatyai road for about 13.5k and take the second entrance  (left) into the park, then follow the road up and behind the lake for about 1k to the run site in the car park on the right.

Beam me up Botty

Some interesting rumours circulating concerning an unexplained disappearance by one of Saturday's hares, notably on the SH3/HH3 Facebook pages, and the TOS can exclusively report that Kii Leum was found wandering in a dazed and confused condition, about 10k away from where he was supposed to be!
As a result, the run site for Saturday's run has been relocated to the point from which he wandered off in the hope of a re-enactment of his suspicious dematerialisation. Scoff ye not, oh disbelievers in alien abductions!

Details of Saturday's run are now:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1648, Saturday 5th January 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Hares: Kii Leum and Yardstick
Misdirections: From the Ko Yo intersection take the new Yala road for 800 meters and turn left, following the road for 800 meters to the Home of Faith then continue up the hill for a further 1.1 kilometers to the run site on the right in the rubber.

Perhaps it is a reflection of the quality of last Saturday's HH3 New Year's party that your correspondent has no recollection of any announcement being made last weekend about the location of this week's (Sunday) HH3 run. No doubt a map will appear as mysteriously as Kii Leum disappeared today. When it does it will follow.