Weather Outlook for the Monsoon Monkey 25 July 2015
Southwest Monsoon conditions are forecast to prevail with surface winds blowing predominantly from the southeast or southwest bringing frequent heavy showers. Isolated thunder storms are expected to develop later in the day.
Perhaps the forecast should have read – unbroken strong sunshine, with little or no wind and no prospect at all of rain at all during the run.
Only Mad Monkey Hashers venture out into the midday sun and there were no stupid dogs in sight as the pack assembled at a designated point adjacent highway 331.
It was noted that Mental Disorder (Hare) and baht bus coordinator failed miserably with this simple task of locating the A site and went racing past towards Sattahip. His hash name was certainly awarded correctly!
Camelbaks are quickly filled to the maximum with iced water, group photographs were taken and the hares briefly explain what to expect on the run.....and so ON OUT into a pineapple field where leg protectors are pulled up to the maximum. Finding the first check, and its back to where Lucan calls on. Still in the pineapple field we continue.....
To say the run was well papered is a slight understatement. Surely, no one can get lost today!!!
Loop after loop of cassava and pineapple interspersed with nasty little dry gullies. Hole in the Hose surprises himself by breaking a check that Jellobutt has found a very comfortable seat next to while G.I Joe checks completely in the wrong direction. We then cross a recently harvested cassava field and pop out onto a nice track where we can run at last. BHPC seen in the distance running his own hash!!
Only 5km into the run and I’m getting low on water and then a blessed sight – water stop No 1. Top up the tank and off. Dell Boy comes rushing along from somewhere and misses a turn to the right and has to come all the way back.
We drop down into a dubiously clean stream bed where the thoughtful hares have made it impossible to keep dry feet and then up into a field of tall dry grass where running is impossible due to the moonscape underfoot. At this stage it seems to be getting hotter with no shade at all!!
Finally we reach the next water stop at 8km and tank up again. Meanwhile, Lucan made me Cum is away collecting causalities who have suffered heat exhaustion or have managed to get lost and ferries quite a number into the water stop. Most seem to recover very quickly. However, Fishy Fingers has certainly lost the plot and is withdrawn.
From this point we have a choice of either a 3km ample into the C site or a 5km tougher loop to the C site. Most Hasher’s find the trail very easily but the normal suspects Ball Ringer and AFC managed to get lost, and were located around what sounded like U-Tapo airport – they had found an aircraft!!
Now time to relax as Lucan Made me Cum served Gin and Tonic with salami and cheese nibbles in a well appointed hostelry with a large swimming pool.
Some very good run shirts designed, I’m told by the hares daughter (Guess which hare) are handed out and we all wait expectantly for the circle to begin.
Lots of hard work from the hares made today’s Monkey a very memorable day out with the boys......and how did they manage to get so much paper onto the trail. Perhaps they used a lorry?
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