Full moon 105: a good reason to celebrate

For those who don't know, Only a Yolk became a grandmother yesterday when her son, variously identified as Hua Chee and Black Devil (guess which is the HH3 name!) produced a daughter, or at least his wife delivered a daughter - you get the picture. By coincidence, this month's Full Moon H3 run will take place tomorrow evening: Tuesday December 17th, 7:00 p.m. at Egg Towers when the baby's head will be duly wetted - after the run of course which will be set by Egghead. Bring a hand-light if you intend to run and contributions of food, beer or other baby wetting materials welcomed.
For anyone not sure about the location, From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4k and turn left for 5.2k then go right through the temple arch. Follow the road for 200m then bear right along the temple wall for 500m turning left at the T junction at he end and right after about 50m to the car parking area.

Outstanding outstation

Here's the run: 5.5k without the checks, 6.8 with them, Maximum height: 106m, total ascent: 198m. First runner home in 55 mins. The reverse run on Sunday took 44 mins. More generally, thanks to HH3 for another excellent outstation run at a great location which served some of the best food we've had on any outstation since Ko Mak all those years ago.

A few outstation run shots

A look at Google Maps revealed an interesting fact about Saturday's excellent run by Khai Jiao: it encompassed two provinces. (The river that we crossed twice is at that point the dividing line between Phattalung and Nakorn Sri Thammarat provinces.)

And while it will probably never be recorded in hash stats, let it be known that there actually was a Songkhla Hash run, starting at 7:30 am. on Sunday. Like the very first SH3 run, it attracted exactly three runners (Egghead, Khii Ling, and Beaver). The route was Saturday's run done in reverse, with the occasional shortcut around the hills. And like all the best hangover runs, it was painful but effective.

HH3 outstation weekend and an accelerated quiz nite

No SH3 run this weekend, but a map to the HH3 outstation run at Lung Tang Homestay at Nam Mot Daeng, Phatthalung, Saturday 14th December, above. If anyone not on the hash circulation list needs a digital (.gdb) copy of the route, contact miccurrie@hotmail,com. Registration, 250 Baht for HH3 active runners; guests etc., 850 Baht. Run on Saturday starts sometime after 3:00 p.m. Registration also includes (basic) accommodation, dinner, beer, party etc. etc. For more information come to the pre-lube tomorrow (Thursday 12th December) at Buk Toy's yard, 7:00 p.m.: From the Ko Yo Intersection take the old Hatyai road for about 12k and turn right just before the big black Buddha. Attendance is obligatory if you want to do the car rally which will precede the run and will start at about 9:00 a.m. on Saturday from a site to be announced tomorrow.

Stop press: Due to a clash with the Buzz Stop Christmas party on the 20th December, the Quiz Nite has been brought forward to this Friday, 13th December. Usual venue: the Office Bar, 8:00 p.m. Quiz master is Big Alex.

Governments may come and governments may go but a good run lasts forever (...and ever and ever!)

As is often the case, yesterday's HH3 run will probably be remembered for all the wrong reasons. It should be remembered for being a 7.5k yomp through some largely unexplored territory just off the Chana highway, with a waterfall thrown in for those lucky enough to see it, and a 3.3k short run for those lucky enough to coincide with Leum Kii's arrival at its point of departure. For those who didn't, which consisted mostly of the kids, they embarked on the rest of the long run and had to be rescued by GM, Star Soccer or guided home by Big Foot.

So that is the first reason it shouldn't be remembered - the run that almost ate the next generation of hashers! The second reason then manifested itself as the GM and members of the Sex Sprinter clan abandoned the reins of power to Moo Sahb presumably to prepare to bring down the government on the morrow. Moo Sahb then made a valiant effort to run a bilingual circle and almost carried it off aided by some traditional water throwing courtesy of Full Moon. The main recipient of FM's attention was Big Foot whose crime of rubber abuse represents the third reason for which the run should not be remembered, but which went otherwise unpunished since the owner of the rubber tree he backed into did not arrive to claim a financial recompense.

A great run though. Sex Sprinter claimed to have completed it in 1 hour and 2 minutes, but had he dallied long enough would probably have been iced for some creative trail running. No one else had a stop watch handy but it felt more like a 1hr 15-20 min run. Thanks guys - we won't forget even if it is for all the wrong reasons!

1695

1695: 7k with checks etc., 5.7k without; maximum height 247m, total ascent about 300m. The short run was a generous 4.7k and got up to 222m with a total ascent of about 200m. Nothing much we haven't done before, but the bulldozers had been out at a number of strategic points providing some great views. Great moment when the short run who were off paper met the long run  at the 5th check and sent them off along a checkback as Gan Yao reached the check coming the wrong way down the right trail...errr.

Hare angst and a farang disaster

Discourtesy of Beavershot, i.e. his permission was not sought!

As the Egg family agonises over just who will lay tomorrow's SH3 run, the headline: 'A proportion varying between two sevenths and one of tomorrow's hares' was rejected when details of HH3's run (see below) landed in the in box this morning.
So, SH3's run tomorrow will be:
Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1695, Saturday, December 7th 2013; 4:00 p.m.
Hares: Egg family representatives
Misdirectons: From the Kao Saeng intersection take the old Yala road for 16k and turn right before Wat Kun Thong then go 3.5k and turn left just past the big tree and follow signs for about 1.5k to the run site on the concrete road behind Sai Kao village.
NB (and this is a biggie) PLEASE DO NOT TRY TO PARK IN THE RUBBER as the ground is soft and we don't want to piss the villagers off. There is a U turn about 100m beyond the designated run site; turn and  PARK ON THE ROAD.

And So to HH3 on Sunday, which will take place at the back of Nern Pijit and will be set by Big Foot (aka Gan Yao) and Leum Kii (aka Kii Leum) . For those who need verbal instructions: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4.7k and turn left for 10.9k (going straight ahead at Wat Keow Kloy). Turn left and follow the road for about 2.4k to the end of the black top then take the right fork to the runsite in 200 meters. Kick off 4:00 p.m.

Two-thirds of yesterday's hares

The other third was Muu Sap but she doesn't get a photo here because she denounced a certain respected senior hasher for "short-cutting". And that is such a cruel, hurtful word.

Business as usual

HH3 today: Long run: 6k, Maximum height 184m; total ascent 270m. Short run: 4.5k; max. height the same, total ascent 108m; both home in about an hour-ish. Not a bad afternoon's entertainment.

Run or recce?

Yesterday's relay run was more like a recce as successive hares probed the forbidden Western slopes of the Chompoo Ridge, discovering that it is STILL impenetrable as it has always been as long as we have been running in this area. After Only a Yolk had led us off, Stick Insect, Buk Toy and Beavershot all made attempts to ascend the hill, but eventually it was left to Kii Leum to bring us out of the wilderness and to Perky and briefly Kee Ling to give us a run at the end in better country. Total length was about 4k which took almost an hour and a half to complete.
On! On! to better things today at Sala Hin Kliang if the rain lets up.