Tsing Yi A to B

Hare - Cute Boar Butt

Hashers - Comes Up the Rear, Cheap Prick, Lost In Space, Gobi Lo, Octopussy, Indyanus, Foot Fetish, Lubricated Mud, Screwtop, Freebee, Cute Boar Butt

Write-up - Gobi Lo

LSW #2438 - write up by Gobi Lo (and for those who did not get the joke 13 years ago, my hash name is read as "Go Below"

As we gathered at Tsing Yi on a typical Hong Kong summer evening - hot and humid was the forecast with a high chance of rain - the Hare started rounding up the pack to put our bags together to be transported to B. Her warning for us were frightening: "There is a very slippery section so you will slip and fall, you will hit your head and you will die!" Lost In Space merely chuckled at this (brave man #1) and Cheap Prick shrugged it off (brave man #2). Spoiler alert: no one died, thankfully!

The Hare's other set of instructions were thankfully less ominous: there is one Rambos/Wimps split, and there are definitely no spiders. Well, to some of us, these were empty promises...

Foot Fetish and Lubricated Mud took the lead for a hot second, stretching their legs while following flour on the promenade. I had a good chat with them and after warming up a bit, caught up with Octopussy who was then leading the pack into Tsing Yi Park. Up the steps and onto the check where I chose the wrong option. True trail led us down to the main road, with more checks doing a great job keeping the pack together.

I caught up with Octopussy again while on the Tsing Tsuen Bridge, remarking that this must be virgin trail for the LSW. I was left wondering if a spider-free run meant no shiggy or trails, but there was no time to waste as I had to catch up with the FRB, Screwtop.

After crossing the bridge, trail led us left and down the steps into the housing estates. That's where the R/W split was, but apparently everyone missed it! I saw the feint chalk marks on the wall and shouted to Screwtop to turn back as she had taken the Wimps route. Clearly my hoarse (and still recovering from a bad bout of bronchitis) voice did not carry far, or Screwtop chose to ignore me (it turned out that the latter was true!).

I checked out the Rambos route to the left but the rain had washed away most of the markings. I doubled-back to the split, but seeing no other hashers I decided to go further into the estates to find flour. Sure enough, there were bits of flour in the back alleyway, and then it led me to the waterfront.

Here I was transported into the infamous GTA (Grand Theft Auto) game - running around the containers at the shipyard and squeezing past slabs of concrete right by the water's edge. I half expected to run into a triad mob transacting a fleet of stolen Aston Martins! This was my favourite part of the run, and as an added bonus I had the luxury of running all by myself.

The very scant trail led me to the Tsuen Wan Chinese cemetery, and this was where I saw some headlamp lights flickering around. Turned out to be Lubricated Mud and Foot Fetish at the re-join. They looked disappointed when I told them that they missed the Rambos split.

We saw signs leading to a tomb that said "Wincy's Great-Great-Great grandparents" and I realised this was what the Hare meant when she said there were some special visitors! I took off my headlamp and running cap, and paid my respects to the Hare's ancestors before heaing up the cemetery.

Down to the urban area, and the Hare left one piece of "shiggy" for us. I ran straight into a cobweb so the Hare didn't quite live up to the "spider-free run" promise! On home to B, Hing Shing Road Playground, and then on on to Thai Spackle Food where everyone who ran the hash actually stayed for the bash. Thank you Hare for a wonderful run in such challenging rainy conditions! Freebee did a great job ordering food, followed by the Circle led by Indy and Gobi Lo.

Down Downs by Indy

Cute Boar Butt - welcome to the 'nearly' Spider Free Run!! And what did you think ?? Excellent trail / full of variety interest and colour!!... also virgin trail...

Denvy - 'I came across 1 or 10 ??? spiders'!! 'Really?' says CBB

Comes up the Rear - to CBB... 'I did not know you had a fear of spiders ?'... Drrr.. 'and the run was called.... ?'

CBB - taking the hash across Tsing Yi Bridge... a first !! And the views were spectacular !!

CBB - her 2 mystery guests ? - she laid the trail past the tomb of her great great great grandparents so all could say hi to them !!

Screwtop - missed paying homage to great great great grandparents - she did not see the huge laminated note in front of them... obviously running too fast !!

CBB - huge effort into setting such a varied A - B run!! An online reccie then 3 trail ones...

Gobi Lo - !! The only hasher to see the split and then do the Rambo trail...

Down Downs from Gobi Lo

Indy - taking 13 years to get a hash joke; didn't understand that Gobi Lo is meant to read "Go Below"

Screwtop - enlightening Indy on Gobi Lo's hash name

Octopussy - secret gamer! "Oh I've played GTA before"

Indy - Gobi Lo - here's some special yogurt skittles from Korea, for Indy!

Pole Dancer - stand in, Screwtop - loves skittles so much, Indy will soon make a special edition yogurt skittles cake for him

The hare - Gobi Lo joined the LSW 13 years ago and fell in love with hashing... and now seeing Cute Boar Butt so enthusiastic with the hash, Gobi Lo decided to give her the HK map series!

Indy - Cute Boar Butt can set the next two months' run, now that she is equipped with maps

Back to Indy DD's

CBB - set the 2 trails but with the rain had to go and re-lay the first part of the trail... all done in her bright yellow chiffon dress and 'normal' shoes !

Screwtop - suggests that this now becomes a yearly run... 'the Yellow Dress run'... June 4 2024

Returnee - Foot Fetish... fab to see you back at LSW and in HK permanently

Foot Fetish - now living in Shatin... City One MTR side so... 'if anyone is going to the Prince of Wales hospital pop in afterwards for a drink !!'

Lubricated Mud - great to see you more regularly at LSW

LM - meet Cheap Prick... he thought he was looking after you at the WALOB run (that you did not attend!)... but then rushed off with Hopeless / LIT... (and left the ones he was to look after behind!...)

Lost in Space - was following trail with Cheap Prick... but on 2 occasions CP led him in completely wrong direction with no markings...

Cheap Prick / LIS - shower together (well at the same time!) but CP only took 5 mins... LIS took 25 mins 'I had to condition my hair!!!' !!!

CUTR - on trail around Octo.... Advised her not to go a certain direction... which turned out to be the right way!

CBB - thanks for setting such an interesting trail - incorporating sights / tricky Rambo trail and family visitation! Your LSW record... Done 30 runs and hared 4!! Excellent Ratio of 1 : 7.5

Followed by fab Thai Bash (in exclusive private room all to ourselves !!!) and enjoyed by all !

And to sing the famous LSW song... Cute Boar Butt!!