Run #62 – The “It’s Afternoon Already?” Run Rehashed

Hares: Sloephuck and DoggieStyle

Commentary on last Sunday’s run must indeed start some seventeen hours earlier when 20 odd, very odd in fact, runners assembled at Maya for Doggie Styles Midnight Run to aid the Library Project. The sponsors need space here, SSS, Maya Bar and chrisrenney.com, because the end result was that all the funds collected went direct to the charity. Showing up for a run at a bar at 12.00pm is not cool, especially when the temperature was 30+. Now this was not a normal 10.0km training run, this was a race, and the pack quickly saw Luo, Bear and Stefan disappear in front up Shuguang Rd. One of the high points of the run was a come from behind effort by Hentai to tidy up the leaders and return home with the gold, with Luo and Stefan in 2 and 3, while Tim from Maya did a great job handing out the water at the start of the SuDi without however advising that was a turn here, resulting in Xuda continuing on Nanshan Rd until he saw a taxi as the only viable alternative to running into oblivion. Also mention to marshals Lucy, Franz and Dan. The female medals were keenly fought over, 3 medals into 4 girls didn’t seem quite fair, but 1st went to Showphuk, silver to Acro and the bronze to Yoga. The rest of the morning was spent as if it was a Tuesday night, which meant a 4.00pm bedtime and a suspect Sunday, which is now finally where we start at the flower nursery. Oh yes, the pack will believe anything; including rumours of a short run after the previously described event.

Turnout included new runner Xuda, David for his second run, Torvill, Shagger, Phone Box, Pawn Star and her non-running friend Rainy, Hentai and scribe. Pretty miserable turnout for such a great spot, the flower nursery!

So to the trail; off through the endless vistas of this park usually empty of humanity but filled with the works of man. After squeezing every little bit out of the labyrinth of paths and trails the hares directed the pack out the back and further on to another more spacious and even more impressive scenic area where the usual continued to occur, good long FTs and CBs keeping the pack well together. And Slowphuk managed this well, the checks were not obvious and the pack was often reversed much to Pawnstar’s relief.

By the way, Pawnstar is back in HK for a while, so keep up the kms down there, until we see you back sometime soon. Wow, it was warm, and when the trail finally emptied the pack into Yanggong Di one was excused of thinking, “not far now”. OK, so the trail crossed the road, might be a safety issue, do the right thing, cross with the rest, yes then take a path rather than the road side, it’ll be OK, a scenic finish back to the nursery, but would you have guessed it, straight to the SuDi. Phone Box was sure that such a deviation could only mean that the trail,was finishing at 30+, but it was not to be. Rather it was a slog back to the nursery for a 90 minute outing.

The circle was a bit quiet to be sure, the 40 degree beer certainly was an unusual touch by the hares, but at least it sanitised the new shoe that Xuda unfortunately wore on his first run. The pack retired to 30+ where Menage joined and the hares arranged hamburgers and chips from around the corner.

On the subject of the Menage, she is off to Guangzhou sometime soon; what the hell is happening here? The hash is always a mobile crowd, so maintaining membership growth means that when one goes, two must come, if you know what I mean. So to summarise the run; HZ is a run setting paradise, well demonstrated by the hares.