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18th September – CH4 Run – Knockout & Cumalot

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Title: 18th September – CH4 Run – Knockout & Cumalot
Location: Up the Mae Sai Valley (left after Maerim), and at the football field a couple of clicks past the X centre.
Description: Knockout is teaming up with Cumalot to set the run
Date: 2011-09-18

11th September – CH4 Run – Kwazi Moto

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Title: 11th September – CH4 Run – Kwazi Moto
Location:

At Big C flyover zero odometer.
Continue on Rt. 1317 18.6 km and see first HHH sign. Make right.
Follow subsequent H4 signs to bucket. Approx. 25ks (??) total.
Just follow signs.
Bucket coordinates: N18 43.318 E99 12.430

Description: Kwazi’s turn to set the run
Date: 2011-09-11

29th August – CH3 – Chuck Wao

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It was a night out at the Fire Station, and Chuck Wao set the run. Amongst the runners was Square Rooter and he was flying throughout the run – it wasn’t revealed until the circle that he had actually co-hared the run! No wonder he knew where to go! Given that he knew how bad a run it was, I’m shocked he chose to go out and run it again!!!

We set off and were quickly heading up hill – there didn’t seem to be many choices, so it had to be uphill, skirting along a narrow edge that was sure to freak Belly Dancer out – but it was Dog Shit who was the first to turn back. At a waterfall Sloppy Rod scrambled across to start the climb up the steep steep hill to nowhere.

Someway up we hit a trail and Sloppy Rod was first there. In a devious (Scum Bag) way he picked his direction and then leant on a tree to catch his breath – “resting”. Of course he chose the trail back down – which he’d run many times before – forcing me to check the trail even further up hill. Once I’d got around 100m straight up he called On-On and ran away from us. We were doing a good job of chasing him down the hill until he took a short cut to come in clear.

Meanwhile I was just one of the runners to completely screw up, ending up in some kind lady’s back garden. She was kind, but her dogs weren’t quite so kind. I did make it back, but from completely the wrong direction.

After a long pause and a quick bite to eat the circle started with a Kwazi Monologue – At least now he knows what a fortnight is. The rain finally arrived and cut the circle short. Those of us without 4 wheel drive got our cars out of the A site before we got stuck on the muddy hill.

28th August – CH4 – Alice

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So what had Alice learnt since last week? Well, importantly his co-hare was more attractive than Screwed Up, so no doubt they had much more fun out on the trail! He’d also found a run site with a shelter – not needed as we had great sunshine! It’s a great runsite I’d only been to once before offering a beautiful view across the Chiang Mai valley, even if the road is somewhat scary.

We set off into the mountains up a gentle hill through the jungle on a good jogging trail. A couple of checks in and everything was going smoothly as we sped past the view over the hill and down into the gully beyond. And then we hit THE circle check. At least 15 minutes of searching before we found trail around 140m away from the check – Dog Shit dutifully got the blame for the screw up – after all he’d set the run in reverse with Alice previously so knew which way we should go!

From there everyone was together, and then everyone was ahead of me after some foolishly reckless checking – so I trundled along with Hollow Legs. We jogged on through to the A, where I was shocked to find nobody but the hares! I hit the beer chest and waited while other walkers like Screwed Up, Belly Dancer and Knock Out cruised in – all praising what a great trail it was.  Alice was starting to wonder what the hell had happened to Chuck Wao, HRA, Mr. Poo etc. Who cares?! It was beer time!

Around 30 minutes later they found their way back having got completely lost somewhere along the way (from what I heard HRA and Chuck Wao were running confidently until Mr Poo came running back towards them at which point they conspired to try and confuse as many other hashers as possible) – And that left Skid Mark who waited until it was dark before jumping out from behind his car! We weren’t overly concerned as he had 2 GPSs – Yes Belly Dancer that’s 2! How many again? Was it 2? Thank-you BD, I guess he has 2 GPSs then. I knew those devices didn’t help at all.

Ignore the complaints, it was a really good run, one of the best we’ve had for a long time – if we screw it up, it’s because we are idiots (and that is surely a pre-requisite for hashing anyway!)

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27th August – CSH3 – Elvis Press Me

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Elvis Press Me set his virgin run on his terrain out at Doi Saket. The A was a beautiful spot at a pagoda in the middle of a lake and we set off along one edge of the lake – expecting to come back along the other edge. We quickly hit the first check and after a good 200m hit a check back. I could see Dead Virgin heading around a smaller lake, so Chuck Wao, S&M Girl and I continued around the other side to meet them at the end, only to find paper again – I guess we took a short cut?

After that we set off along the trail that was road, road, road…  With the knowledge that the injured hare had scouted and set the run on a motorised bike, it made the checks a little easier, but the checks still kept us guessing as we zig zagged around the villages. Where was Chuck Wao?

After a slightly confusing check, Sloppy Rod and I hit the front and then when Sloppy went wrong HRA took it on only to go completely wrong at a strangely marked V check. I took the less likely trail and got lucky with Dead Virgin chasing me down. Finally we hit the lake and there was no On-In, just guess work to take us back to where we could see the cars.

Superman stepped in at the last minute to run the circle – he hadn’t been told it was Sloppy Rod’s 200th run.  A visitor from the UK gave us a novel sing song – a pleasant evening all around with some great food at the On-On-On.

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23rd August – CUMH3 – Kwazi Moto

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18.6 km from Big C flyover and look for the signs. Ye gods! We almost needed passports and an hour’s time zone change. Actually hares Kwazi and Square Rooter earned high praise from Dogshit, the latecomer, for picking a beautiful site but ‘leaving the most beautiful trails for me’. It was far out and it was beautiful, but that’s enough about Dogshit’s midriff.
Red Songtau left Next Place perhaps a millisecond after 4:30 with old mother Frozen Dick kvetching about punctuality. Bone Hur was also on time, waiting at No 1 Bar which isn’t the pick up point anymore. Phone calls, swearing and U turns later and Boney was onboard ready to rock. Now ten minutes late, Frozen was apopleptic but no-one could hear him as he was riding shotgun in the front!
Kwazi’s hare brief was brief. On Mother paper and away went the pack, down the track after 50 yards having been told to follow the road! Humperdick, splendidly attired (for golf), entertained us with impressions of certain hashers running. Alice made a few correct decisions and the first three circles were successfully guessed. “Aha, I have finally understood Kwazi’s mind and broken the code of his thought processes.” From circle check 4 till the end, the opposite was true of course, and your ‘umble scribe finished down amongst the dead men, or just behind HRA, alongside Bone Hur and infront of Skidmarks, which is much the same thing.
His Royal, fresh from painting the new CNX Muay Thai Boxing Ring a comely shade of slime, ran without his gaters, laying forgotten and abandoned somewhere. Much like plates and cutlery Poo was definitely 100% going to bring.
The trail was mostly enclosed jungle tracks, often wet, muddy and sandy, usually riven with trailbike tracks which gave one the feeling that certain hares had mechanical assistance. It was quiet too, naturally and unnaturally, or at least until Skidmarks was sure he had an advantage!
The tricky circle check behind the fishfarms really slowed the pack until On On! was called in the aforesaid premises and HRA helpfully marked the piano wire garrote line with two pieces of paper. Dogshit decided to impale his head on rotan spikes shortly afterwards and so earned the non existent Hash Crash award.
Strange to relate, Poo was just jogging along until the whiff of fish seemed to stimulate him greatly. We deserve an explanation.
The circle was civilised and refined, as befits a 60th birthday celebration for the estimable Kwazi, King for the Day. Birthday boy was on form but struggled to name US presidents in any cogent order from his early youth. Dogshit suggested Lincoln! On Ons at a cowboy themed Steak House was yee haw and ride em cowboy, as soon as we saw the waitresses.

4th September – CH4 – Foxy Cleopatra

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Title: 4th September – CH4 – Foxy Cleopatra
Location: The Ag Centre
Description: Foxy Cleopatra’s run
Date: 2011-09-04

21st August – CH4 – Alice

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A good turn out appeared in the rain for Alice’s run. He’d spent all week getting lost, avoiding mischief and scouting with Throbbing Ninja and then set the trail with Screwed Up. There are some great trails around and they did a great job of finding an interesting route. Unfortunately this particular hasher did a great job of f**king it all up!

At the first circle check I found some paper and set off only to find out sometime later that I was following a run from Chilly Pussy some month or so back. Amazingly the paper was still in good shape and it wasn’t the last time I did an extensive detour. When I retraced my steps and rejoined the pack I was the last to climb up a pointless hill, only to come straight back down again – Kwazi did the sensible thing and just strolled down the trail to wait for the runners to come back down not far from where we went up.  Chuck Wao, believing I was up front, set a pace that even HRA couldn’t follow and as the checks were largely predictable he careered in ahead of the pack.  Meanwhile I spent the rest of the run overtaking.

The hare setting trail

The highlight was the water crossing – thigh deep for me and tit deep for S&M girl! With no obvious detour to avoid it, the plan was surely to force Chuckie to get his feet wet – only given the rain his feet were already wet, so he played the game and trundled through it.

 

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20th August – CSH3 – Dog Shit

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Dog Shit teamed up with multiple hares (S&M Girl, Rachael and belatedly Just Cumming). The rain had turned the run site to slush, and it looked ominously like we were going to get wet. Fortunately the rains stopped and we were about to set off in the dry, even if we were sliding around in the mud.

The first V check had been destroyed by some workers, but we figured out what had gone wrong when we hit a check back. Another cross check had us all fooled as we were convinced we would be heading to the right and into the mountains – instead Doggie had taken us left and kept us on the flat ground through some orchards.

The pace was high and the runners rejoined the wimps as they came out of their short cut with a long finish along the road we drove in on. Chuck Wao was determined and sprinted up the hill at the finish to the oversized ONIN.  It was a nice run, well laid with plenty enough to confuse us.

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28th August – CH4 – Alice

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Title: 28th August – CH4 – Alice
Location:

5.7 km down Canal Rd from Samoeng Jct.
Cross canal, 1 km in, across the junction and 300m straight down the track.
Turn R at HHH sign and follow rough track to the shelter.
Songtau needs to drive carefully, its bumpy but its doable.

Description: Alice sets another run
Date: 2011-08-28