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25th June – CSH3 – Byte My Yahoo

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Well, it rained…  It started raining mid afternoon, and it’s still raining now…  The hashers that did brave the rain then faced the run I and HRA had laid in the morning.  Of course I could say it was the best run ever, but I should probably report the feedback from the runners – concisely ‘a good run, but too far!’.  Just as well the days are long at the moment as triathlete Jake was the first man home in just over 1 hour.

The run set off flirting with the steep mountain, but quickly cut back and stayed mostly on trails.  It then headed towards familiar ground between a couple of lakes. Watching from there it was interesting to see how confusing it was for the hashers – rechecking trails that had already been kicked out. Chuck Wao was complaining as the trails turned to slush in the rain – completely different from when we set it hours before. Miss Piggy was really upset with the length and duly punished the hares – She wasn’t DFL though and did make it back in daylight! Sorry Miss Piggy!

 

21st June – CH3 – Skid Mark

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Skid Mark was today’s hare, and he spent the past few days highlighting the closeness of the Ping River – could be interesting.  I was late showing up, but they didn’t wait for me, so only Skid Mark & Horny Monkey (allegedly injured) were there with Lung La waiting for the off.  Wondering if I would see the pack again, those fears were shortlived as less than 100m into the run I came up to Frozen Dick!  It turned out that while they didn’t wait for me at the start, everyone waited at the first circle check.  Chuck Wao had been to find the On-In, Green Pussy seemed to be running off in all directions, and HRA had clearly twice ran past paper distracting everyone away from the trail.

One check down and we were jogging along the bank of a small canal.  With some inside information I let HRA set the pace, only for him to come up to some Skiddy Sticks – False Trail!  It was back along the path to the obvious trail that headed out into the rice fields. Chuck Wao was thwarted by the floods while Square Rooter and Jungle Chim took a dip in a deep irrigation ditch.

Everyone stayed pretty close together, mostly due to some well placed Skiddy Sticks – HRA again getting caught with Bone Hur in place to get us back on track. The final set of skiddy sticks caught me in a deep ugly hole with nowhere to go. Back out to the obvious trail heading towards the obvious 15 storey derelict building chosen as the A site.  Plenty of shiggy on the On-In, and another water hazard to cross – ironic giving the proximity to Green Valley Golf Course.

19th June – CH4 – Junglicious

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So it was time for Junglicious’ virgin run and we were all wondering what goes through her head! She chose Huay Tung Thao – a common runsite, and one thats particularly common with virgin hares – close to town and relatively easy to set a good run. So what do we know about Junglicious? She’s a hell of a runner, and she runs up hills like they don’t exist!  From the far side of Huay Tung Thao, the mountain is surely going to feature…

A good turn out set off on a fun start – a rope climb, a bamboo bridge, and Belly Dancer was already wishing he hadn’t come. Bizarrely the run had barely begun. A good circle check sent me the wrong way, and some strange calling by Mr. Poo sent me further the wrong way until I found myself scrambling across shiggy and a waterfall to rejoin Hollow Legs & Miss Hollow Legs as the mountain began.

Later in the circle, the irony of Belly Dancer criticising the hill was lost on nobody – it went up and up. And just when we thought we hit the top, they found a little bit more up. S&M girl and Chuck Wao were out front, and they took turns in going the wrong way and letting the pack catch up – in fact Chuck Wao deliberately went the wrong way on more than one occasion.

Finally we descended and well the descent was about half as far as the ascent, so logically we can’t have arrived on the same plane as the cars, but strangely they were there. The beer was flowing, but we had to wait for Frozen Dick before the circle began – not surprising as it was a tough run.

14th June – CUMH3 – Frozen Dick

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Upon getting directions for the ‘Tiger’s Mouth’ in Mae Jo – I wasnt sure what to expect from the pairing of Frozen Dick and HRA – the rule about not having a run more than 1 hour for the songtheow is indeed a good one and after driving nearly 40km from my house to the run – I’m looking forward to the CSH3 outstation ~15km from my house! Fortunately I found myself driving behind Skid Mark – as with out his familiarity with the location – and the hares economical use of signage – would have meant me getting very lost!
So with a pack of 8 (including hares) – we were given a hare brief about running on shredded paper (not powder) – we were told the run was ~6km and sent on our way – all six of us. I decided to try a bit of FRB with Suckit and Honey Monkey on my tail – but the first circle check led me to a double (powder and paper) bar – hummm – not such a  good start. Suckit got lucky and I never saw him again, so Dead Virgin who had just got off the plane and I attempted to keep up with a very luminescent Skid Mark and Horny Monkey. Between Dead Virgin’s worshiping the natural flora and fuana – we lost sight of the FRB’s and somehow Kwazi too – who was trailing us, so we were left to enjoy what was in fact a remarkably good run – with nice trails and some enormous checks.

The scenary and trails were very good and its a pity its so far out of town as would be a good location for runs – even some evil looking hills which I did get a little excited about. One circle check near the end of the run in powder did fox Dead Virgin and Belly Dancer – obeying the instructions to ignore powder – and the FRB’s not kicking it out – did give Dead Virgin another chance to commune with nature – but was close enough to the laager to not fool us too long. The run turned out to be ~ 4.5km but enjoyable enough.

Being a modest pack – there was piles of beer – Tiger beer (Pamala) – no choice but at huge expense and efforts of the hares – the circle went on … and on  … so much so that Kwazi gave an epic performance and hope to see more of this … the move from big bike to big truck has worked wonders! After 2 hours of beer consuption – we headed into town to hunt down Chuck Wao just returned from a spiritual trip to Pattaya. Needless to say Dead Virgin got into his religeous grove again and some point even Hole Plugger appeared!

Thanks hares – more of the same please – but hopefully not quite so close to Myanmar!!

21st June – CH3 Run – Skid Mark

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Title: 21st June – CH3 Run – Skid Mark
Location: TBA
Description: Skid Mark’s CH3 Run
Date: 2011-06-21

17th July – CH4 Run – Byte My Yahoo

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Title: 17th July – CH4 Run – Byte My Yahoo
Location: Head along the Doi Saket road – look for HHH a few clicks past the Doi Saket junction.
Description: This is one you don’t want to miss – a memorable run! 😉
Date: 2011-07-17

10th July – CH4 Run – Chuck Wao

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Title: 10th July – CH4 Run – Chuck Wao
Location: 12km along the Canal road past Sameong
Description: Chuck Wao Wows Us
Date: 2011-07-10

3rd July – CH4 Run – Mr Poo

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Title: 3rd July – CH4 Run – Mr Poo
Location: TBA
Description: Mr Poo Sunday Run
Date: 2011-07-03

26th June – CH4 – His Royal Anus

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Title: 26th June – His Royal Anus
Location: TBA
Description: HRA is setting the run
Date: 2011-06-26

12 June – Sleeps on it

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A virgin pairing of Sleeps on it and her new husband set the run out close to Doi Saket village. Getting to the site was well marked and there was clearly no sign indicating you should turn right at the traffic lights in Doi Saket – unfortunately half the hashers proved their general incompetence and promptly got lost – not a good start!

The run site was a pagoda on a peninsula in the middle of a lake – nice run site! The hare brief was brief, but indicated that the wind may have blown away the trail and something about not going through someones property even though they had agreed for us to go through their gardens…  Apparently the lady in question had very large breasts, which accounted for one of Skid Mark’s falls and apparently explained why Kwazi Moto was late getting back to the circle.

The run had a lot of shiggy, scrambling along ‘trails’ across the side of a hill for a long way before we could hit the flats.  But then they found a trail that was protected by a strange lady telling us not to go that way. It turned out the paper was there, and ‘John’ the co-hare had hacked his own way through the jungle to create a ‘trail’ especially for us. Who really cares about the stickers and crap that ripped our legs to pieces?

The highlight (for the hares) was the On-In placed about 200m from the pagoda, on the wrong side of the lake. Most hashers were forced to run about 3km further to get around the lake, while only Byte My Yahoo was clever enough to just swim across to the waiting beers. It was good to have SuckIt back to run the circle – at least some semblance of organisation! On the whole a well laid trail with plenty of tricks that kept a big group together even to the end.