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26-02-2007, 23:30
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Jogging in Patong
Gentlemen,
I am making my first visit to Phuket in April staying in Patong. I like to go jogging for about 10 k on a daily basis, and I am hoping someone can suggest a route/location/track where I am not in too much danger of being run over by cars. I know there is a Hash House-branch in Phuket, but that is not what I am looking for. Thank you Curly 
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#2
26-02-2007, 23:50
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Best option is probably along the beach in Patong - you could run south to Crystal Bay - stunning view over the bay and quite hilly at the end.
You'd be welcome on the Hash of course (beer optional  ). Have a good trip.
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27-02-2007, 00:11
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Hi Curly, The Hash may not be what you are looking for , but some of the guys are serious runners and could probably give you some tips about the best places to go.
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27-02-2007, 00:17
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Head out on most roads, yes initially you may fear the traffic but most roads have a bike zone (bikes don't use it) lined and safeish for runners, but feck its realy hot and humid here and good nights out seem to spoil the best laid plans.
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27-02-2007, 07:59
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The only time of day when I could even think about running would be dawn until about 8ish.. Even the early evening the heat is just too high..
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27-02-2007, 08:04
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Most people seems to be jogging on beach or the road "behind" Patong, hasip pee road I think its called. Its not much traffic on that road, you can enter from both north (Phisitkoranee rd) and south (Nanai rd) Patong.
I used to take a walk and do some light jogging on that road myself.
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27-02-2007, 08:11
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My brother likes to go jungle bashing out that way.. Says theres some great trails that he has also MTB'ed around way up the back.. Not sure how easy that is to 'jog' but it keeps him interested exploring the hills.
You can get all the way up to the radar tower if your keen..
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27-02-2007, 20:25
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I'm a runner to, but to put 10K in a single path would be hard to do... I like Hasip Pee (50 Years Road) in Patong because I run only 5K. However, if you were to go to Karon, that is the longest beach on Phuket. For 10K, from end to end you would have to go back and forth twice. Oh, and they have a nice sidewalk running along the road if you don't like running on the hard sand...
Last edited by TanMan : 27-02-2007 at 20:27.
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28-02-2007, 02:44
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You mean your circuits around Kamala Bay on the crest of a wave!!! 
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28-02-2007, 10:47
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Tch! Triathlon training Kev! I got to the gate of Kamalalala Hills this morning but had a bit of a tummy rumble as I passed the security guard..........It was a close one but I managed to get back to the apartment..........Then just had 5 minutes on the bed! 
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28-02-2007, 14:18
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LOL Denver - you mean tribarthlon .... MTB - Hells Bells - Love Bar Had a jolly good run/walk in Kamalala hills yesterday ... if you live there and/or know where Kamala Hill Residence is - then keep going up that road - theres a very steep path up a valley with a very scenic waterfall - if you make it to the very top of that trail then stunning views to the West of the island.
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28-02-2007, 14:31
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Saw the forum title and then saw that K2 had been posting on it - intrigued to say the least. A bit like IJ or Mav giving hair grooming tips.
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28-02-2007, 14:42
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Cheeky (front running) ba$tard! 
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28-02-2007, 14:50
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Nice to see K2 giving advice on running- maybe you'll take it up yourself one day 555555555555555555555555
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28-02-2007, 14:53
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Here we go - another FRB TTP
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28-02-2007, 15:58
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Just got back from a meeting with my Financial Guru - Mr Chicken George, if I had read this before I could have asked him WTF you are on about!!!!! Sat in a bar owned by............you guessed it...............ABH........or...Another Bloody Hasher!  I ran down there............................................. ...On the bike!
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28-02-2007, 16:46
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OnOn U fat ba$tard ... beware of CG ... dangerous when pi$$ed !!
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28-02-2007, 16:58
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Tell me abaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaart it! That was another 48 hours I'm never going to get back......................He told me you walked as well!!!!
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28-02-2007, 17:27
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28-02-2007, 17:44
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Beggar me Denver you are really fast on your feet for a big man, that must all that army training in the berkas. I saw you sprinting up kamala hill and dropped down a gear in the pick up to see if I could catch you, time I got to the top you were making your way down to the 7-11.
Must of run out of fags or something, can't think of anything else you would run so fecking fast for!!!!
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28-02-2007, 17:51
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CG is need of a Hash name change!! Stool Pigeon comes to mind!  Meaning A decoy bird, or a police informer, or criminal's look-out or decoy. Origin Most reference sources say that this expression derives from the hunting practice of fixing a dead or replica pigeon on to a stool to act as a decoy to attract other birds. What the stool in question was isn't entirely clear. It certainly wasn't the three-legged piece of furniture we now know, but one of the many other meanings of the word. In the 16th century a 'stoale' was the base of a tree - what we would now call a stump, just the place for a decoy bird to sit. It is also possible that 'stool' is derived from 'estale', which is an early French word applied to a pigeon used to entice a hawk into a net. It isn't far from 'estale pigeon' to 'stool pigeon'. All of that seems quite straightforward, except for the fact that the term 'stool pigeon', or 'stoolie', doesn't appear in print until the 19th century and in a completely different context. It is first used in American publications and referred to criminals who lured others into crime rather than to decoy birds. The earliest example I can find of the expression is from May 1816 when it was used in the Gettysburg paper The Adams Centinel, in a story about fraudulent paper-makers, i.e. counterfeiters. Unfortunately, the print quality of the paper make it difficult to read the full context, but it does describe someone involved in encouraging the passing of counterfeit banknotes as a 'procuror or stool pigeon'. There are examples of decoy ducks being described as 'stools' from 1825 onwards, but the term 'stool pigeon' isn't used with that meaning until 1871, when M. Schele De Vere listed it in Americanisms; the English of the New World: Stool-Pigeon... it means the pigeon, with its eyes stitched up, fastened on a stool, which can be moved up and down by the hidden fowler. It could be that decoy ducks have been called 'stool (or estale) pigeons' since the 1500s but no one wrote the terms down, although that seems rather unlikely. What we do know is that the current meaning of informer came into being in the USA around the middle of the 19th century. The Sheboygan Mercury printed a piece in August 1851 about the prevailing political situation in Italy: "Everyone fears that his confederate may prove a traitor... and avoided as a Police stool-pigeon and spy." The most likely explanation of the phrase's origin is that it was coined to describe those police informers who hung around bars (on stools no doubt) in order to pick up underworld gossip but that the name was influenced by the earlier, but as then unamed, hunting decoys.
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28-02-2007, 18:16
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