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February 10 - 16, 2006

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LEOPARD
BEACH RESORT
• D I A N I B E A C H • K E N Y A

FRONT RUNNERS GET THEIR
EXERCISE WITH KAMA SUTRA

HASH REPORT - RUN No. 155

Coastweek - - A healthy pack (numbers, not condition, there had been a Hash barbecue the night before), assembled at KWETU, overlooking the upper reaches of the majestic Mtwapa Creek.

The Hare, Kama Sutra, had obviously done some reccying as she was able to confuse the pack into checking this way and that.

Predictably the trail went down into the creek, but soon led back up a slope before descending back down again.

She did not take the opportunity of leading us into some sticky shiggy (she did not want to get her own shoes muddy ?) but took us to a hold above the creek.

From there energetic checking took place in all directions. Kama Sutra made sure that the front runners got their exercise because she would not call them back to the true trail too early; this is good haring and kept the pack together.

The trail went up again and eventually we reached a wet hold, where some pombe mnazi was offered to the great Hash ancestors in the sky, along with a rendition of "Singing in the Rain", complete with "rootata rootata bottom wiggling".

The local kids were still "rootataing" when we passed the spot on the way out.

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Indeed, it is common when you go to villages where Hash runs have taken place, to be welcomed by cries of "ON ON".

This is true all over the world. So you see, Hashing has some anthropological effect.

In the distant future, researchers will be puzzled at how local people in Asia, Africa and the Americas, display some similar, slightly deranged, behavioural patterns.

They will find that bands of strangers have been to those places, seemingly confused and not knowing where they are going, searching for marks or shredded paper, shouting "ARE YOU" and "CHECK DEEPER" and "ON ON" , sometimes stopping to chant whilst standing on one leg, before disappearing into the forest.

This can have an effect on small children, you know.

Next Week's Run

February 11th 2006, Venue - Shanzu. Run starts at 4.00 p.m. sharp.

Meet At Pistachio 3.30 p.m. Call Trevor Fellows - 0723-897970 for details.