Run #46 The Where in Wushan Square Run – Yeti

Run # 46 – The Where in Wushan Square Run – Hare Yeti – Turnout 17 Questions raised by some of the more pedantic hashers, usually, no, always female, related to the actual start of the run in Wushan Square. The old formula often works, just stand around uselessly in some central location and the hashing world will finally come to you. It didn’t happen to scribe who had to locate the trail at the back of the square and follow it backwards to the start which was, surprisingly found at the entrance arch, yes!! As 5.00 pm crept by, the late comers crept in, including Jackie on her bike and Doggie Style on his new Giant. There’s some kind of thing going on here whereby the Giant owners make demands upon the security of the parking location of the bike that takes most of the gloss off the pleasure of cycling. Scribes advice is this; given that if your Giant is stolen, then you’ll be able to buy it back the following week at the market for half what you paid for it. So, this is a form of Chinese National cycle insurance, no premium and a 50% excess. Looks like a good deal, so relax. Anyway Doggie made it back from the Shanghai 1000^th run and still was able to cycle to the start of the HZ run, cycle back, and then set himself to do 20km on Tueday night; what’s he on? After Acronymph, Skidmarks, Hary, Hayley, David, Sevenup, Cartoon Porn, Titman, Jackie, Men Ching, Pushup and a couple of new French runners arrived, an on on was called and the path wend it’s way up, of course, around the stone paths till Cartoon Porn found the trail down some stone steps, from where he set up a continuous barrage of on ons. The pack did a voluntary regroup at the top of the steps for the back markers to catch up much to Cartoon Porns dismay, and then descended to a now delighted Cartoon Porn who in fact was standing on a check back (CB). So Yeti worked this one out very well indeed. Then it was on on around limestone features, up down, left and right and on on again to another regroup in the Maoist era lookout featuring imaginative use of concrete that could only have been designed and built by army engineers just back from the front. New runner Men Ching with Acronymph were last to the top, whereupon the pack went straight back down and followed a trail through some less picturesque parts of the park area, some construction workers accommodation (always makes you feel better about your own digs), some excavations, some poor old buggers vegetable garden with the gate flattened and finally down into a village area. Along the way a couple of Cartoon Porns friends caught up with the pack, which is a testament to the well set trail, and also to some additional marks put down by Doggie for latecomers. A CB in the village area saw the trail wend back up the hill whereupon it got back to Wushan square via Hefang Street. Trying to follow a trail along the busiest street in Hangzhou on a beautiful Sunday afternoon was a bit tricky, so the trail was abandoned and the pack went straight back to the start.  The French contingent and Hentai’s friends shot off immediately to avoid a down down, but Men Ching and David (Aussie) were not pre-appraised of the new-shoe rule and so very reluctantly took their down downs, the former choosing to decant her shoe into her cup; what was the benefit of that again? There was a smokers down down, and a last in down down, several wrong name infractions, and a naming, Aaron being christened Titman. Yeti’s run failed to receive a single vote in favour when a ballot was called as to the quality of the run, but this reluctance to vote may have been more to do with the danger of the circle being mis-identified as an unauthorised political gathering, because the run was good, just about right for a mixed and relaxed crowd. The restaurant in Hefang Street is always a good deal with good atmosphere, so it was a contented crowd who went their various ways after.