Category Archives: CUMH3 – Write Ups

One thing I will say, Seaman Soars always puts plenty of effort into setting a run, and today was no different. Nonetheless, he was given plenty of grief as the hashers arrived. The friendly welcome party of waving Thai soldiers didn’t quite make up for the lack of A bucket sign – plus of course Semen Soars should have stopped the rain! Fortunately the rain did stop and we were set off with the instruction that it was A->B.

And so we were off into familiar ground at the end of Huay Tung Thao lake. Pretty much everyone has run here, and pretty much everyone has scouted to find out where the army base is and where not to go. So when the first circle came up, nobody really wanted to check right, as surely that didn’t go anywhere we wouldn’t get shot at? But right it was, and the army base loomed. At this point the army escort at the start began to make more sense – and when the army patrol fishing on the reservoir simply waved and smiled, rather than shooting us, things were looking up. Fresh trails that I certainly haven’t hashed before.

And there were some great trails – so much that even Kwazi lifted his demeanor and enjoyed it. After the reservoir Chuck Wao inadvertently ‘short cutted’ by finding some trail a bit ahead and missing a few hundred metres of trail. HRA set off in pursuit and managed to follow along around 100m behind Chuck Wao – which meant that as Chuck Wao got every check right, HRA was in the right position to kick it out behind him, so as Mr. Poo, Sloppy Rod and I trundled along another 100m back, it turned into a straight run. (With it being an A->B run it was pretty much a straight line through the army camp).

The route gave us some interesting insight into the army training facilities, including a run through an assault course. HRA couldn’t resist the monkey bars! The trail was doing well until for some strange reason the hare sent us along nearly 2km of bitumen to a randomly chosen place for the songthaew to wait for us. We overruled the hare and took the songthaew back to save the stragglers from needing to suffer the bitumen. Afterall, due to the ‘national holiday’ and being an army camp, there was no beer waiting for us in the truck! Around 7-7.5km made it a good test, and a fun run in an area I don’t know if we will run again for a while.

The friendly army escort took us back to the cars, but didn’t stay for the circle. Colonel Cornhole somehow lost his keys – he left them with the hare, who left them with Ulrich, who managed to drop them somewhere along the way – fortunately Dyke Converter saved the day – and it was splashed repeatedly through the circle. My overall verdict is a good run, some good trails, it just could have done with some more checks!

Dog Shit set today’s run out towards Ob Khan and a decent crowd of male hashers turned up. From the A, we had a great view across to watch lightening strike in the hills to the West. Ominously the lightening drew closer, and sure enough within minutes of setting out on the run the heavens opened and we were in the midst of a downpour.

The first victims of the rain were Dyke Converter and his son MiniMe, diving for cover before Dog Shit had even gone looking to help. Shortly after Frozen Dick and Screwed Up decided better and turned back in the downpour. Belly Dancer wasn’t far behind and that just left the idiots to keep swimming through the rain.

There were a couple of spots where the trail had been washed away by the rains, but to be fair Dog Shit had done an excellent job of backing up powder markings with paper, so there was enough remaining for us to find the route and eventually the storm passed, the rains eased and we were left running through a light drizzle on some really good trails – if a little slippery in places.

Chuck Wao was on form determined to break away from the pack, and he managed to several times and eventually stormed away at the finish. The trail ended with around 1.5km back the way we started, which made a true runners finish. Despite the rain, which was out of the hare’s control anyway, Dog Shit set an excellent 8.5km run.

Well that was a surprise! A dozen runners showed up at a field near the canal road a few clicks south of Sameong with low expectations – afterall the last runs set by Bone Hur were complete disasters.  Driving down I was remembering the 20 minute run he set in the same location and the abomination he set with Superman not far a way.  With low expectations, it is easy to exceed them – but today he really excelled!

Despite the unseasonal rainstorm that started just as we set off, the trail set off nicely into the trees and low hills. It was a true runner’s run with plenty of good running trails – even though I’ve run there several times, Bone Hur found plenty of new ground to explore – and plenty of beautiful scenery to enjoy.

After a great circle check at the top of a hill turned us back nearly 180 degrees, a group of 4 broke away at the front – Chuck Wao, Brown Finger, Graven Image and Byte My Yahoo. The last checks are always the most important, and it was a V check that split those groups and let Graven Image run to the On-In alone – well he would have been alone if DogShit hadn’t short cutted his way to the front.

The rest of the pack weren’t far behind – except for Frozen Dick, who carried his trademark of coming in at nightfall. Good food afterwards, and an OK circle before the boys headed towards town. As far as runs go, this was a great run over some great terrain – a reminder of why we do this!