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The Checkerboard Run, Lok Fu The hares - Lost in Planet & Octo The peeps - Cupid, Cheesy, Stinky, The Plank, Pole Dancer, BMT, Hannah, Indy, Jonathan, Tight Lips, Long Horn, Screwtop, Brother Anus, Freerider, BL, Kannot, Noah, Poon Tang, AFWD, MD, Rooted, Wai Chee Wai-chee's FB photos A very warm and humid evening greeted the assembling pack in Lok Fu, with many of us jumping around and slapping our legs well before the briefing, not in preparation for the run of course but in reaction to sustained attacks from mozzies. The briefing was simple according to the hare, usual markings nothing too technical - until it got complicated!! “Oh, just in case the gate is locked when you get to it, come back on trail 100m and shimmy up the drain pipe”?? “Oh, and there’s a part where you have to climb over the a fence and down the stairs, be careful because you can’t get to the bottom of the stairs” - no kidding a 10ft jump needed (that bit not mentioned at briefing stage)! On those instructions the pack were off! Out of the park towards Junction Road and within 1km we’re climbing the Checkerboard hill to the top - amazing views and a wonderful bit of HK history. The evening is especially humid and hashers are already starting to feel fatigued or at least I was. Though I might add that Poledancer did the wimps so things must have been bad! Running down Broadcast Drive I can no longer keep pace with Screwtop and Hannah, I soon lose them and trail but find Macau Drunk is much more observant having found trail easily! On to Leung Cheung Road and again I lose trail, I’m starting to get pi**ed off now - ffs woman concentrate!! Fortunately, Longhorn has no trouble finding trail leading off the road and must wonder what on earth I had been doing to get lost so easily! The trail heads up an embankment and onto the now infamous fence with stairs you can’t use. I take a look, Longhorn takes a look- ooh, not easy to see the height of the drop until you land (hopefully on your feet but certainly ending on your arse)! Onwards along the catch water, it’s not possible to run as the edge is narrow and looks slippy so I put my foot into the leafy soft growth alongside only to stand on a discarded bbq fork! Yes, a bbq fork on the edge of the catch water! It pierces straight through the sole of my shoe and into my foot! Arrggh, this takes me to the floor in pain! I release the fork from my shoe but can’t bring myself to look at the damage to my foot so get back up, well on one foot anyway and hobble along for a while! As Screwtop aptly put it later- I got forked on trail!!!! The route continues through Lion Rock Park and on to Morse Park where thankfully I am running with Macau Drunk and Frank the Plank with whom trail finding can be shared, not particularly evenly as Macau Drunk seemed to find most of it. We lose trail at the very end, opting to look for exit B in the Mtr and on home! Many thanks and well done to the hares for a really super run enjoyed by all, the Checkerboard is a real point of interest, some shiggy, elevation and wonderful evening views. On to the bash, delicious Chinese food expertly ordered by Wai-Chee and Sticky at a bargain price with lots of beer and even more fun! Jonathan asked me to put it in writing that it was the best food yet! Down Downs by Indy The hares - Lost In Space / Octopussy...... the Checkerboard Run !! Brilliant idea for a run!.... everyone loved it! LIS/Octo - last minute stand-in hares... LSW thanks u! LIS - So about the aged checkerboard? Who did see it?...... Brother An*s and Jonathon with their fab? eyesight..... Lost in Space / Long Horn - Pilots... did they fly into Kai Tak Airport in the days of the checkerboard?.... Ahhhh......?? All those passengers who flew into HK Kai Tak airport.... almost all standing!... drink from your own glasses.. What date/year did Kai Tak airport have last flight flown in / out..... 'Goodnight Kai Tak! and Thank You!’!... wild guesses from everyone except Blow My Tits who knew the answer (after checking the iphone)..6 July 98... LIS / Octo - had thought when tonight’s ‘dream team! teamed up we may have the WALL ob run?...... LIS - hare of the eventual WALL ob run... then called the Era of Good Feelings Run.. first co- hare had been Mother Mary..... Macau Drunk and Indy at that memorable run .. Burning Lust - tripped over some invisible wire while climbing a fence, impaling himself on some barbed wire and nearly landing head first the other side. Rooted - had watched BL attempting to kill himself as he wanted to get past her quickly... nipping between ladders to overtake her!, so the reenactment! Brother An*s - another hash crash victim! Oh Deary..... Hash bodies - BL / Cupid Stunt / Brother An*s... 'take it off' to show the effect of hashing on the male physique!! Returnees - Wai Chee / Poon Tang / Jonathon/ Hannah / Long Horn / Cupid Stunt... Great to see you'all back again! Hash away weekenders - Rooted and Sticky... Babes Hash run with original FCH in Taiwan Last week's bash - BL with fussy food order (wanting non-gweilo food - the cheek of it!) LIS - in newsletter he reported that 'ZE vill eat fish lips and chicken pat pats at bash... and ze vill enjoy them’!! On the food theme we had Cupid Stunt in fine form regarding the China import taxes: 'We will ban shredded cheese to make America GRATE again’.... ha ha .. Cupid Stunt - more humour was to follow..... 'I almost lost my job as a roofer, I got caught wan*ing, but my boss let me wipe the slate clean!'.... Aaarrgh...... And then Cupid to Screwtop and Blow My Tits - being the biggest ditchers as they had both managed to ditch their husbands for the evening Rooted / BL - leaving central to live in rural Pak Sha Wan!! Stinky - part time Pak Sha Wanner... Sai Kung environs hashers - Rooted / BL / Indy / Stinky...... Retirees /In between jobs - Blow My Tits / Indy / BL / Rooted... LIS / Blow My Tits - thanks for last week's fab run report... and in advance for this week's! Anniversary - Stinky ST - 275 runs.... began LSW 19 Nov 08...... LIS / Octo - thanks for a brilliant memorable run around the checkerboard!! and showing us a part of HK aviation history!.. and of course a fab bash complete with fish lips and chicken pat pats!! 6.52km 57mins
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