Run #215, June 19th, 2005
A very hot day for super-hare Hot Tuna`s gNagoya Expo Hashh. The Tokyo hashers of Miss Bean Abeem, Cock Bait and Bladder Blow bravely accompanied by Demon, were still recovering from 2 nights of partying in Nagoya, when the extremely long walk from the station to the exit nearly killed them off! Tokyo`s Blah Blah and Yak Yak were having similar problems until kind of rescued by Nagoya`s King Tama, coolly sauntering around Marunouchi.
Cries of pure delight were heard as we saw Cheap Liquor and Groper`s fantastic gNagoya Expo Hashh slimey green t-shirts, with drunk Kikoro and Morizo designs (Expo characters).
Keeping to the Expo theme, Pocket Doraemon and others gexpo-edh up, incuding Kiss-made Expo bandanas. Miss Bean was gMiss USA Beach-girlh, though no-one guessed the Expo link. Everyone lathered up with the sun-screen.
Hot Tuna explained the trail to be many trails, including Long-Short, Short-Very Short, and maybe a glimpse of a castle. There was one virgin – a French Canadian invited (?picked-up) by the partying Tokyo and Nagoya hashers on the Friday night (?and he could remember the start – obviously not drinking as many shots as the hashers...Smelly Pussy?)
The pack headed off towards the castle area, scrambling up to run atop a grassy knob moat under the cool trees. Down and back into the sunshine, past a famous temple, past many government buildings, past Aichi-ken`s police headquarters, and our first check closer to the castle. Hashers disappeared, taking their time to return. True trail was on-left, winding back to the castle`s entrance and the most crowded roads I have ever seen (maybe there was a wet t-shirt competition at the castle??).
On-on past the thousands of castle-tourists, and on-down past the water-filled moat, and our spotting of Nagoya Castle – where were the famous golden dolphins/ shaku hachi?? (...whisked away to the Expo?). On-left just before the Nagoya Castle Hotel, and then back in the direction where we had just come from. On-straight, no shade, in a bobbing line hashers kept coming. We could hear Blah Blah from somewhere around.
On-straight, and next we knew it we were near Kokusai Centre. Blah Blah and Cock Bait had disappeared, so after a long wait under a shady tree we decided to go on-straight. Good guess, and on-straight we went. We also passed a newish looking huge sake-factory/shop.
Shinkansen and King Tama showed me a famous Nagoya hooker spot near the water (?how did they know?), and on-straight. The next check, and hashers argued that we would end up back near Sakae, so off they went (mistakenly) left across the bridge.
Blah Blah was seen waving frantically far away, and Miss Bean went to rescue him (as no-one else was going to, and we didnt want him to be picked up by the police). Blah Blah had in fact found true trail, so Miss Bean whistled the others on, and we were heading towards Mei-eki (=Nagoya Station for Tokyo Hashers).
The trail took us in a huge loop around Nagoya Station, more on-straight, and on-over the train lines, and yes, a spotting of a shinkansen (ensuring hasher Shinkansen and real-Shinkansen-users to drink later). Oh no, far away we ran from Nagoya Station, and on-straight on-straight. On-right (at last) and up-over the many Kintetsu and JR lines. On-down, and back towards Nagoya Station.
Miss Bean ended up by herself in front of her old haunt, the Leijac Building. On-over towards Sakae, then on-left. A check-point near Nagoya Station had all hashers stumped, running through the hot crowded streets, past the cool pachinko parlours, and back again. Finally a hasher called us on, and it was only another 2 or 3km before we finally dragged our weary-legs home.
Would the virgin have lasted that long trail? All hashers survived. Denki Dick, Fast Breather and bubs were very genki after completing the shorter trail. Flash and Kiss were even genkier after no trail.
We turned into a slimey-green hash t-shirt wearing group, and the circle had many down-downs for the solo hare, Shinkansen, funny-shoes-wearers, non-runners, eki-ben-ners, Tokyo-hashers, hisashi-buri-ers, nado nado, gado gado. Sexy Babe #1 came, and all were happy.
On-on party, another good one, and yes delicious tebasaki. Beer was drunk, friendships re-affirmed, new friendships made, and life was good. Hash was good.
MISS BEAN THANKS: Miss Bean would specially like to thank Demon, for her incredible hospitality shown to the 3 Tokyo hashers who invaded her house. She would also like to thank Cheap Liquor and Groper for all their efforts in making fantastic t-shirts. AND, on the Monday, thank you to the 7 or so Nagoya hashers who made the super-big effort of supporting Bladder Blow in the gUS Dayh at Expo. In Bladder Blow`s words, gNagoya was awesome!h
On On
Miss Bean Abeem
P.S. Looking forward to seeing many Nagoya hashers on 8th October at the All Japan Interhash f05, at Okutama, Tokyo. Details at:
http://tlh3.com/interhash/