Cheung Sha Wan to Sham Shui Po

Hare - Shake My Shack

Hashers - Benny, Brittany, Comes Up the Rear, Gobi Lo, Octopussy, Unblockable Cock, Shake My Shack, Mac, Clean My Bush, Long Haul Booty Call, Freebie, Any Fanny'll Do, Toilet Boy, Sally, Nose Bender, Cute Boar Butt

Write-up - Cute Boar Butt

On a regular LSW Wednesday, the messaging groups been getting updates from the very excited hare, Shake My Shack, about the trail he was setting and despite a not so exciting forecast with heavy rainfall, he continued on with the original A to B plan. I arrived at the Cheung Sha Wan MTR station with my good friend, second time runner no-name Benny, whom was stirred away from last week run's forecasted broke out coffin picture I had only described, not shared, but was brave enough to come back this week for a second time after I promised there would be no (open) coffins or graves. As we were arriving at A, we got a message from the hare correcting A to be at a different location, and that he was unfortunately experiencing heatstroke and needed extra time to get to the revised A, with a revised time.

Shake My Shack arrived with heavy panting and quickly directed the group to run in pairs, taking extra caution about some small steps claiming trail had not been used in years, and quickly explained his Russian markings that he read up on and decided to experiment with. He then sent the group out pointing towards the road across from the park and instructed the pack to "head north", to which I just assumed taking a right and before I had time to make sure the pack took off with me confidently running ahead. We went up the steps towards Tai Po Road and found ourselves running parallel to the highway, we then went up the steps towards crow's nest with FRBs Gobi Lo and No-name Mac leading the way. Trail went up and up so high high high, we passed a viewpoint and asked if Benny wanted a pic so I could take a quick breath from the aggressive elevation. He was semi forced to have his pictures taken and then we continued on until we realized I lead him down a path that was unmarked but with ropes. We quickly realized my mistake and had to go back all the way up and then we ran into Long Haul Booty Call and Brittany, we followed them until we came across a check that we thought was unmarked. Mac was there to check left and he found an arrow so he called trail and took off, Benny and I jumped in front of the girls trying to catch up to him but as we continue along the stream we realized markings were not found for a while. I made a point of the importance of striaghtly follow markings, we decided to turn around thinking we must have missed seeing them, until we heard Any Fanny'll do ask "are you?" at the check, then we realised it might be one of the funny Russian markings the hare mentioned at the briefing. We checked the steps up and saw markings, turned out that was true trail and what ahead was more or that climbing so high high high. Before turning into Strawberry Pass there was another check but FRB Gobi Lo stuck a branch obviously pointing up as she tried to make sure no one miss the solved check. Now there was just Benny and I running up in pairs as the hare had emphasized us to do, we arrived on Lung Yan road and without taking a second breath we sprinted down almost stepping on snails and toads. Ushered a few away the main path and gave them a bit of a lecture about not chilling on the runnable trail we ran down the steps towards Lung Cheung road. Ran along Lung Cheung Road and down the steps we found ourselves in my child-hood, Kowloon Tong. I took a guess thinking we would end up in the Cornwall Street park, where there's most likely "Mediterranean food" as the hare had advertised, and I was very excited about, but we very quickly passed the entrance and turned into my recent training stomping ground, the Shek Kip Mei Park. As I confidently lead the way, we lost markings. Benny was starting to question, I made sure he knew there was no other way but to run towards the entrance of the sports centre. He was doubtful as we sprinted down the slopes, saying "if not then we'd have to come back up", and especially after I had emphasized the importance of following markings for the entire time of the run. I pretended not to hear him, ran towards the sport centre, lo and behold there was Gobi Lo and hare Shake My Shack pointing at us that the in trail was down the steps in front of the main entrance.

Hare said we were free to buy our drinks from the vending machine, but I had other thoughts. After the shower I forced Benny to run down to the 7-11 with me for some beers and for the pack. Got back and found out the bash was in fact Shake My Shack's favourite restaurant in Sham Shui Po, a place I had suspected but was too blind from the excitement of Mediterranean cuisine. A few of us took the bus while the rest took a taxi with all of us headed 1.7km away from B. Bash was Chinese, "the whole point why we ran all the way to B", said hare, and that he didn't want to give away his B location so he said Mediterranean just so no one would suspect, which baffled the pack because in Hong Kong, Chinese restaurants are everywhere and could be anywhere.

Food at the bash was great, a naming was almost done but on hold, Octo, Benny, Mac and I headed towards the Sham Shui Po MTR station but midway of arriving at the MTR station the very Gen Z Mac pulled his Gen Z move and jumped on a taxi instead.

Down downs from Gobi Lo

Hare - excellent A to B run

Hare - B is 1.6km away from the bash!

Hare - Not at B when Gobi came home

Octopussy - work is one block away but still didn’t make it to the hash

AFWD - “If I had know it was going to be a 9km run I wouldn’t have come to the hash!”

Long Haul Booty Call - going away again for another booty call

Unblockable Cock - celebrated 30th birthday last weekend

Unblockable Cock, Long Haul Booty Call, Brit, Sally - all celebrating their 30th birthday this year

Mac & Nosebender - true Gen Z - look at their socks

Freebie - Gen Z wannabe with her long socks

Toilet Boy - spends more time showering than the infamous LSW hashers Toilet Spray

Freebie - said Nosebender, Sally and Toilet Boy they would be back at B within 10 mins; she better her life on it!

Hare - “Mediterranean food” as a deep fake to throw us off, but he could have said “Chinese food”!

Cute Boar Butt - excited about next week’s run at Park Island

The Hare, Nosebender and Sally sang the song

6.87km