Well readers, a threshold was crossed on Good Friday (I
forget what this is in Cantonese, but the literal translation is Painful
Experience Day). I have been really getting into this hashing lark, and was
determined to get Claire to come along to one. I talked her into coming on a Good
Friday family-friendly, short-ish one on the beautiful, car-less island of
Lamma. She agreed with a heavy dose of trepidation, and on the condition that I
ran it with her and didn’t streak off into the hills leaving her to work out
the chalk symbols on her own.
The reasons Claire and Lion look so shocked in this picture,
as Claire winds down after the run with a beer, are two-fold:
1-
Contrary to expectations, Claire had actively
enjoyed the run a great deal.
2-
Claire took to the run very well, running the
longer ‘Rambo’ course in 1 hour and 10, which was the benchmark finishing time,
leaving several more experienced runners in her wake.
I was very impressed, and had a great time clambering around
after the chalk trail in the wooded, red clay hills with Claire. Claire is
cautiously keen to go on runs like this regularly, and we’ve booked in another
one on Sunday. This should be great for both of us – easy way to expand our
social circle, fantastic way to keep fit and gives us a shared hobby. Hooray
for hashing!
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