History

Little Sai Wan Hash House Harriers was formed on 17^th January 1979 when the Australians and British at the listening post at Siu Sai Wan or Little Sai Wan decided that Hong Kong needed a mixed Hash. Hence the name Little Sai Wan and the kangaroo and the lion on the LSWH³ logo. (genealogy)

In those days runs started at 4pm and all the runners were from the base (photo). In 1982, the base closed and Chinese radio satellite transmissions were monitored from Chung Hum Kok. Numbers dropped alarmingly. The start time was brought back to 5:30pm in an attempt to bolster numbers and one of the first civvies, Old Man Withers started running. Numbers were still small and old hashers still reminisce over the run when the numbers doubled when a car-load of four hashers appeared.

Over the years LSWH³ has prided itself on its disorganisation. There is no GM or Committee, yet things get done. This is due to the many characters that have stamped their names on the Hash. Who can forget the immortal lines of `It'll be a good day out, and the run'll be flat on average' Bob Lampard, the first LSW hasher to do 200 runs, and how many people want to forget the `Hash from Hell' set by Gucci and Phil the Gut. Uncle Ralph was another character who cast his spell on the hash and on one run had to airlift his son to hospital.

The first person to do 300 runs was Snakewoman Helena who started setting snake runs when the likes of Ironman was still in Hong Kong. Ironman's van will be remembered for its use as the bins, changing rooms, Hash Transport and anything else that anyone wanted to do in the back of a van. Helena emmigrated but the snake run tradition was upheld for a while by Diggaaa, Snake Lady and Shirley who also then drifted off into the sunset. Anyone who wants to revive the tradition is most welcome if they know of a decent snake restaurant that also hopefully offers apple crumble for pudding.

Also departed for pastures greener if that's how one describes Spain were Hash Cash (754 runs) and Big Bitch (618 runs), but they did host a LSW reunion with their Mijas hash at Easter 2007 which attracted the ex-LSWers who could get there.

Bobbledick (nearly 600 runs), Park'n'shop, Jeez Wayne, Parky the Gong & Hopeless are still regulars along with newcomers to Hong Kong, which in the context of those just mentioned is anyone who arrived in HK after the 80's.

Due to a change in work ethic, kick off is now 7pm (or 7:15 if hard to get to) and the average run has over 20 hashers (weather and location permitting). Bobbledick held one sortie in Hang Hau village (before the MTR was built) during the rainy season where the On On fit round a majong table with extra chairs, and down downs consisted of dobbing yourself in and finishing your own beer. More recently Sweaty Snailgobbler sadly saw only five show up for his run in Chi Fu 'cos of a particularly dark typhoon 1 that got raised to a 3 did a U-turn and came back as an 8

Most runs are still one to two hours long though they still occasionally turn into ballbusters like San & Amah Perks Handover Run, and Special Branch's Deepwater Bay run seeing the back of the pack finishing in over 2 ½ hours, plus a mention in the local press of See You Jimmy's Tsing Yi Tunnel run. Several hashers also talk fondly of more recent efforts like Hashzilla's run that went from Parkview down to Deepwater Bay and back up to Wong Nai Chung Gap before popping off to Stanley, and Randy von Fokker's Wong Tai Sin to Sai Kung jog that had hashers threatening never to return.

The 25^th anniversary run was set by Hopeless, Nutcut, Britney & Rudeballs on the 10th January 2004, and the 1500^th run was on the 14^th Jan 2006 set by Big Bitch and Hash Cash just prior to their departure. The next anniversary run will be the 1600^th on the 28^th November 2007 set by Hopeless

PS apologies to all those notables not mentioned, but if you know of any that should be then email 'em in.