THE RUN -

Living and working now in Sai kung area, I knew that getting to Guildford Rd for the run could be tight dependent on transport... especially as i could not leave until 6pm... however ably assisted by a minibus, MTR and a superb kamikaze taxi driver i was thankful to get to the beginning at 7.08pm, around the normal LSW kickoff time!

There was Castrato, Come in my Tunnel, Buttfan, Priscilla and Hopeless? Where are the others?? or maybe they are still on the way?..... No it seems that we were to be the '2nd' hash group, as the first 'cab off the rankers' had begun 8 mins earlier... Priscilla's bunch had caught the 6.15pm bus but even that had taken 50 mins to get there.....

So with the Aussie Day run from Hebe Haven Yacht Club, next week (on the road to Sai Kung), I did ruminate to myself that it will take a similar time to cover the distance from Central to the 'far outer reachers of the New Territories' (as Sai Kung is perceived by the 'HK islanders') as it did to get from Central to the Runsite last week on HK island....

But I deviate.... our handful of runners set off with Hopeless not running.... naturally I assumed he must have been given the role of 'Senior Advisor' but apparently that was not the case??

No, Hopeless had a bad cold, so he said! so surprisingly was not running..... (or possibly staying behind to console F3M as she anxiously bit her nails hoping that no problems would eventuate! After all she had announced to the assembled hashers last week when she announced 'Next Week's run' that 'there will be NO criticism of my run...' or maybe that is why Hopeless did not run so he would not do his well-known dummy spit on this, her special run!!)

Yes, it was F3M's celebratory 250 LSW Run and she had carefully worked out her run date, taking her injuries into account, so it would fall on that day...

So off we went wondering what was in store for us..... Back up the road and right onto the HK trail! We ran on flour for a while...and then kept running! On the way we passed this solitary torch and runner coming from the other direction! Was he a hasher? I recognised the form of Chris but when i asked him what he was doing he kept mumbling this mantra 'I am looking for something!'... Of course he did not tell us then that he was looking for flour as it had run out!

So on we continued seeing torch lights ahead of us, until we saw Buttfan floundering around with no flour in sight and Castrato nowhere to be seen either....

We did a turnaround and ran a long way back... going past Chris again who was coming again from our opposite direction mumbling his mantra 'I am looking for something!' and then still continued in the opposite direction from the pack.... by this time HP Salsa, obviously a '3rd cab off the rank' starter, joined us and we ran on and on...

We ran past the CB that Come In My Tunnel had not originally seen (and neither Buttfan nor Castrato!!) and then an enjoyable run on the HK trail... At this stage Castrato appeared on my tail, calling himself 'My Nemesis' for some reason.... apparently he'd got lost at the afore-mentioned CB... not knowing where to go until he realised later that Chris had in fact been standing on the CB!....

We did catch up with another hasher who despite calls was doing a stealth runner act and not replying except for the occasional On On.... turns out it was Bobbledick.... and then he went into radio silence and we were running off flour again.....!

So after all that excitement, we finally found the shiggy path up the shiggy hill, down the shiggy hill, out onto road and up up and up the hill to the Peak area.... more confusion on the Peak Rd as Priscilla came up the road from going downhill before seeing chalk over the road.... at this point he was shaking his head and stating that the hash disease of Ahlzheimers was finally affecting him too...

Then a good 'run in' down down and down the road until at the top of Guildford Rd we literally bumped into someone getting off the bus... Ivana Nuco*k decided to make her appearance by coming all the way to the run-site after the run, to have one can of Sprite before going back down to Central again ...??

So a good Celebratory 250 run with most back within the hour.... oh! All except for Bareass, a '4th cab off the ranker', who was taking his time on the trail before appearing at the Bash freshly showered but very thirsty!!

Down Down's by Hopeless

The Hare - F3M

Ninja Whinga - 100 km finisher

Gobilo - Her Gobi 250 km is still the benchmark

Ivana - 100km wimp... did not do, nor hash either...... the sacrificial pig does not seem to be working for her??

Bearass - DFL but shower/home/?? waiting for him at the end.....??

Injured but ran - Thermal Dick and Fast Pussy

Late - Frank the Plank.... not Bobbledick!!

Ruggero - early for a change?? with the hash list..... (Ed - what is this obsession about time???)

Come Into My Tunnel - get to know your national area!! German but did not know that German Swiss school was at Guildford Rd.....

Castrato - as Hash Cash very trusting… (same as the original Hash Cash I do believe!)... 'I trust you! I don't need the receipts!'

F3M - Obsessional.... Asking every returning hasher... 'What about my checks?'

Old Sock - returnee.... some charge but even for me hard to decipher... something about free stash then complaining???

Priscilla in absentia - Did the run but was the first to rush back to Stepford Land... others remaining for On On.... Buttfan/Thermal Dick! (in fact TD in no rush at all to get back to Nappy Valley!!..... still seen at The Queen Vic at 1.30am as the Ed was slinking away.....!!)

ANNIVERSARIES - F3M's 250 Run, but no T-shirt to commemmorate (unlike some other sad bastard!!) 150 Runs - Castrato....

Boilers - carrying offensive weapon on a hash??

Come In My Tunnel - Ran through first CB as preferred to follow Buttfan's a*se..

Wanchai Wanker - Missed run but at Bash with Boilers seeking legal counsel re job starting next week! Congrats!!

Chris - Running backwards and forwards at beginning of trail saying repeatedly 'I am searching for something' like a man possessed, and then when Castrato goes past, he does not see the CB as Chris is standing on it!