Chiang Mai Saturday Hash House Harriers
Drinking and Running Since 1991
Hash Trash 1541 Grand Master – Skid Mark Haberdasher – Hot Nipples
Historian & Awards Master – Superman Hash Cash – Titty Smoker
Joint Master – Just Cumming Beer Monster – Deep Throat
Religious Advisor – Chuck Wao Hare Raiser – Bushy Tail
Deputy Beer Monster – Sheep Shagger On Sec.– Stumbling Dyke
Run 1542
Superman was supposed to be the hare for today’s run, but he deferred his responsibility to the Thai Connection in the guise of Just Coming and Captain Hook who took charge of proceedings. The location was at one of Superman’s favored A buckets – his eponymous dog leg near The Grand Canyon. Around 30 of the usual suspects amassed with one new member joining the pack, but unfortunately I don’t recall his name – come to think of it may have been Scum, but I could be wrong.
The run took us through familiar territory, into the forest along many mushroom festooned trails and was generally pretty flat for the first couple of km at least. But it wouldn’t be a Just Coming run if there weren’t hills to surmount. As expected it wasn’t long before we were confronted with the inevitable uphill section, which to be perfectly honest wasn’t too bad- I’ve experienced a lot worse from Just Coming’s productions. Everything was fine, running through the forest interspersed with pleasant views ,albeit showing the first signs of the egregious air pollution which is now a common factor at this time of year in Chiangmai.
We were now obviously at a reasonably high elevation which can only mean, in the words of the time honored adage, what goes up must come down. The descent off the mountain proved to be an absolute nightmare due to the particularly steepness of the trails , seeming at times to be almost vertical, and given the gravelly nature of the track and treacherous ravine on the left hand side every step had to be taken with extreme caution. I was very thankful that there was still sufficient daylight at this point as trying to negotiate this terrain in darkness would have been tantamount to suicide.
We finally reached the bottom of the mountain and onto some decent running tracks which took us back to the A bucket. There is one point of consternation that needs to be brought up about this run. The fact is that Just Coming and Captain Hook were standing in For Superman and every time superman sets a run from this location he has a beer stop at TinTin and treats us all to expensive imported European beers, or maybe I dreamt it. That aside guys A very enjoyable run and a great workout, well done.
In the circle Belly Dancer made a very poignant; and what turned out to be profound splash; and thinking about it also quite philosophical too. It all went like this: Belly put Sloppy Rod, just Cumming, Chuck wao, Super Bitch and Superman then proceeded to reel off a load of statistics.
All of us now and again try to evaluate life – asking ourselves, what’s it all about? and work out the time we spend doing various activities. I’m sure we’ve all looked at various stats: Apparently the average person spends 33 years in bed but funnily enough only 26 years sleeping; over 11 years of screen time; 5 years eating; over 3 years on holiday and 2 years at school. These numbers are all very interesting but they don’t take into consideration the life of the committed hasher.
Belly Dancer proceeded to put this particular oversite to rights. He had been on the CM Hashing website, which if you weren’t aware, is a veritable repository of all sorts of facts and figures in regards to all of the hashes in Chiangmai, so an honorable mention must be made to Dr. Bite for all the collating and number crunching he has done to achieve such a comprehensive and interesting archive.
As it transpires over all the Chiangmai hashes Sloppy Rod has clocked up 607 runs, Turkish 705, Just Coming 1001, Chuck Wao 1,230, Super Bitch 1,248, and Superman a Whopping 2,150. I have utilized a very scientific metric and come up with the following results: I’ve worked out the on average each run is 4.37 km long and the amount of time spent at a hash meeting including the circle is 4 hours 23 minutes. This means Sloppy Rod has run 2,640 km and spent a total of over 110 days of his life involved in hashing. Turkish has run 3,080 km spending a total of 128 days hashing. Just cumming has run 4,374 km and spent 182 days hashing. Chuck Wao has run 5,375 km and spent 225 days hashing. Super Bitch has run 5,453 km and spent 228 on the hash. Superman has run 9,395 Km and spent a total of 393 days of his life hashing. On the scrunched up piece of paper, that Belly handed me, with all this information was written 89%. I have no idea what this figure represents, perhaps it’s the answer to life the Universe and everything there. But one thing I do know that hashing is a major part of many people’s lives and long may it be this way.
OnOn Stumbling Dyke ….