The GM has gone astray .....again

Once again our wise and worldly GM has taken himself to a higher level than the rest of us mere mortals, by following paper where it was not, at the very top of ridges never before traversed by commoner hashers. By doing so he apparently found nirvana, or least wonderful trails that the world bound hares Yardstick & Kii Leum had, in their ignorance, completely ignored. Let us hope and pray that when he comes down from the mountain, that he will share with us, his tablets of wisdom and let us too experience the joys of his enlightenment, or at least follow in his footsteps on these wonderful tracks.

Anyway enough of that crap and lets get back to the facts of the real run. They were in simple terms, a long run which had an overall length of 8.3kms, including the 10 checks & 8 false trails, with a modest total ascent of 272 metres, although the hares never got it up, much over 120m above the runsite. The short run (in blue) was a lengthy 4.0kms, with a total ascent of 117 metres, including a false trail at the top of the ridge. The short run took about 1 hour for most of the participants to complete and was apparently well enjoyed by the short runners.

The long runners meanwhile were forced to drink beer at the halfway point on the run and completed the run in about 1 hour and 10 minutes. Below is what the run looked like to most of the hashers who completed the long run.

 

Now they've gone too far

And you think I'm just being paranoid? Look what greeted me when I opened my email this morning:

Precision run-siting

No excuses for not finding the runsite this week, which is by the way a first-timer, albeit in an area we know quite well. Full details are:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1754, Saturday 31st January 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Hares: Yardstick and Kii Leum
Misdirections: From the Kao Seng intersection take the old Yala road for 16k and turn right before Wat Kun Tong. Go 3.5k to the big tree then continue West (towards Tha Kham) for 850 metres, turn left and follow the bendy road for 670 metres to the runsite on the left in the rubber. (If coming from Tha Kham, go 4.9k towards Ban Sai Khao and turn right, then follow the bendy road for 670 metres to the runsite.)

Sunday's HH3 run is from the beer stop from last week's run: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 10k and turn left at the Nam Noi traffic lights. Look for signs on the right in about 3k then follow the road through the village and up the hill to the run site at the top. The hares are again Sex Printer and Toy Boy.

Finally, there will be a full moon run next week, currently slated for Tuesday 3rd February with the likely runsite being: From the Ko Yo intersection take the old Hatyai road for 4k and turn left. Go 6k and turn right then follow signs for 300m to the runsite. The hare will be Egghead. More details next week.

A whole lot of wedding party pix

 Photos by Tim Pelling unless otherwise noted. Thanks Tim!

Photo by Beavershot

Photo by Beavershot

Photo by Beavershot

HH3 yesterday

Despite three goes at getting the directions right, (they were correct the first time round!) everyone managed to find the runsite yesterday - well almost everyone, there were a small number of notable absentees who may still have been nursing delicate heads from the previous evening. But Yardo and Sticky were there wearing matching scars, Yardo's discretely covered by a band-aid, Sticky's out there and bloody with his hair stuck in it!
The run started out with a loop around part of the trail followed by the HH3 run 3 weeks ago, then climbed and climbed and climbed up to about 230 meters before a gentle jog down to the beer stop After that the hares had found a previously untrodden trail along the hill southwards, coming down onto the main trail not far North of the runsite. Everyone was home in about 55 minutes and the run was recorded at about 5k for those who avoided the F's and the X.

HH3 today

Revised directions for today's HH3 run are:
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 Th. Poonakan) for 5k. Turn right just before Wat Thungnai and look for signs to the runsite. The hares are Sex Printer and Toy Boy.

The aftermath

Bride, bridesmaids, and some dude with a camera. Photo by Tim Pelling.

Yes, cracked heads, aching heads, memory-impaired heads . . . if you were there yesterday and woke up today with your head in anything like normal condition, count yourself lucky. In fact the drinking wasn't perhaps as heavy as it might have been, with a considerable number of us still recovering from Friday night's excesses -- Coffee in Love till almost 4 am. -- following the triumphant, nail-biting victory of your hash team on Quiz Night. But we still managed to go through about 12 cases of Leo, never mind the wine and hard booze. And Sex Sprinter and the karaoke hardcore were still singing when the host and his only slightly used bride sneaked off around midnight.

Thanks to Egghead for setting a superb pre-party run, with a notably sporty descent off the hill behind Thung Jaeng; to my old Bangkok buddy Tim for coming down to shoot the event; to Sexy Girl for organizing the bride's and bridesmaids' wardrobe; and to all of you for joining us in this truly (I hope) once-in-a-lifetime experience. Now the only question remaining: whose wedding party are we going to next January? The punters now seem to favor Freehand but Quack Whacker still thinks otherwise.

Fair warning: lots more photos coming soon!

1753

...was a mere 5k with another 700 meters worth of F's and X's, a maximum height of 212m and a total ascent of 287m. The short run should only have been 2.9k but some problems breaking the final check caused a diversion through the village and down to the road. Both runs took the first runners about an hour with the last of the long runners, Gan Yao and Katrina coming in from the wrong direction almost an hour later. Highlights of the party which followed will no doubt be posted later, but there are definitely going to be some sore heads this morning - particularly Stick Insect and Yardstick who both managed to crack theirs on the roof of the sala of death.

The social event of the season

The blushing bride

Just a reminder: Handjob and I cordially invite one and all to tomorrow's wedding party at Thung Jaeng. Run or walk or just drink beer from 4 pm., then dinner and lots more beer from 6 pm. The groom has promised that he'll try not to pass out in the back of anyone's pickup truck this time. But guests are welcome to if necessary. See you there -- on-on!

The beaver gets a mate!

Life is full of surprises. A year ago we were in Ubon celebrating Softy and Temp's wedding, trying to figure out who might be the next in line. Few thought it would be Beaver and Handjob, but ... life is full of surprises.
So Saturday's SH3 run will be a celebration of Beavershot and Handjob's marriage and following the run there will be dinner and a party at Tung Jaeng to which everybody is invited. Details are:

Songkhla Hash House Harriers run #1753, Saturday January 24th, 2015, 4:00 p.m.
Hares: Egghead and Harram
Misdirections: From The Kao Seng intersection take the old Yala road for 11k and turn right at the Ang Thong intersection into the new Yala road for 1.4k to the Tung Jaeng restaurant on the left. If you are coming from the Ko Yo intersection continue eastwards along the new Yala road towards the Ang Thong intersection and take the final U turn (just before Ang Thong) and go back westwards for about 1.3k.

Sunday's (January 25th) HH3 run will be from somewhere in the vicinity of the Or Bor Tor at Pru Toh: take a left at the Nam Noi traffic lights on the old Hatyai road and go for 3.5k then turn right and look for signs, paper or the hand of God to guide you to the runsite. The hares are believed to be Sex Printer and Buk Toy.

Finally the first quiz of 2015 will take place at the Office Bar on Friday 23rd January at 8:00 p.m. and the hash team will be attempting to avoid a second successive defeat, having had victory snatched from them in the final quiz of 2014 by the evil teachers supplemented by that weasel, Shortscrew. The quiz master is Coco. Expect no quarter to be given.