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Bangkok Monday Hash House Harriers
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Run:- 1213. Date:- 19 June 2006.
Location:- Unico Golf Course
Hare:- Alastair "Beefeater" Atkinson
Scribe:- 4x2Our hare, Alistair Beefeater, just back from the UK is now the proud owner of a GPS device.
Many hashers hope that a GPS will get them back to the beer in cases of when off paper on a shortcut. The past master of this technology is Bog, whose experience of following a GPS track in Phuket several years ago took him in a straight line to the edge of a large precipice at the bottom of which was a huge tin mine. Are GPS useful for finding your way back? Maybe, but care should be taken to not depend too much on them. The things are absolutely useless for an AB run if you have no idea of where "B" is of course.
Nowadays, the gadgets are more sophisticated, No Good Boyo runs with one that not only tells him where he has run (and can superimpose the trail onto a Google Earth image) but also tells him how fast his heart is beating. Al's new toy has a built in map, supplied by Katoey Kick Boxer; it was this stunning piece of combined technology that he used to help him lay the trail from Unico Golf Course !!!
Not exactly a complicated area, Unico trails are flanked by a few obstacles. One is the golf course itself. The other minor landmark is the Bangkok Chonburi Motorway and the railway line. Klongs are all well known, non concrete trails are limited, and north of Krungthep Kritta road is another huge well run area.
Whether he used the GPS to test KKB's maps, or was unsure of the area in which he has laid many trails is unsure. What was for sure was a 1 hour 45 minute hash run!
The moral is to avoid GPS, motorbikes, pushbikes, cars and Segways for laying trails and stick to your eyes and feet and sense of direction – if indeed you have any.
The OnOnOn was at a nearby restaurant (aren't they always?) just over Srinakarin Road. Spinning Dwarf piled into the back of the GM's truck for his usual cigarette, followed by at least half a dozen others. After 4200m or so, your GM realised that his clutch was feeling rather soft, 100m before the crossroads the truck stopped with a dead clutch he and instructed the posse to push the car to the side of the road. Normal, following picked up some of the stragglers and the rest of us made it by taxi for the remaining 500m or so.
Great ONONON food, with the excellent bonus of both Tiger and San Miguel girls who were doling out free t-shirts. We awarded two t-shirts to our old farts Cap'n Eric and Brain Health. A third was presented to the table, but swiped by John McBirnie who refused to give it to our next in line old fart Lenscap. John will be dealt with appropriately in the future.
ONON, 4x2
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On Monday 19 June we had 19 Harriers, 8 Harriettes, 2 new boots and 1 visitor, total = 30. Welcome back to returner Brian "Brain Health" Heath. Welcome to the New Boots Naa and Neil Chin. Bye bye to Graeme "Lenscap" Bywater who departs for a teaching job in Pattaya.
