Run 2685 – Awesome 4 Some Joint Run in Balcatta

Your scribe had Uber duties on the way to the On On, picking up Shakin’ from the Stirling Train Station. Just an easy run north on Cedric Street to discover it doesn’t join Delawney Street. No problem, divert to Odin then back onto Delawney.

The H4 & PH3 buckets were already in place with H4 near the Beer Cage (oh, that is Bear Cage).

The WCH3 bucket arrived behind Basil Brushes white Jeep just before the 6:15 PM start. Not sure why the start was delayed as most hash chapters present normally start at 6:00 PM.

BB addressed the runners and walkers before the run and stated that if it was a stuff -up Hamersley and Perth were to blame. C arrows for runners and straight arrows for walkers.

Off we went across the park and east on Delawney on a mixture of P and straight arrows. I did see some C arrows as well during the run. Across Delawney reserve and east on Campsbourne, west on Eversley and past Jones Paskin Reserve. The run meandered around Balcatta before passing West Balcatta Primary School with the new-ish Balcatta Senior High School in the distance. Good to see taxpayers’ money being spent on infrastructure for the future.
We ran past Lasagna’s house on Amelia then north on Kenwick past Nanny’s house – no drink stops here (more on that later).

On On to the drink stop where light beer and ginger beer was being served. A change from the last joint run where port was on offer. I had a quick drink and managed to get going just as Hamersley started singing their song. It also gave me time to run up the false trail (for runners, walkers kept going straight on) and back on Santarosa Way. We ran back past the drink stop
Over Odin Road, past Vrankovich Reserve, a quick false trail on Delage Way before the On Home on Delawney Street. 6km in just under an hour.

Crayfish arrived back with the food before the circle and the suggestion that we eat before the circle was not agreed to as PH3 hashers would have gone home before or during the circle.

The circle was called (at least twice) and the circle then got under way. Various hashers were called up for down-downs including many visitors. I recall one was from Darwin and one was Elbows neighbor. A WCH3 hasher claimed one runner was stopping cars to check if they were on the way to the drink stop.
Some Perth Hashers formed their own circle near the PH3 bucket. Birdman graciously kept an eye on the PH3 beer whilst the circle was in progress.

Surprisingly the circle was short by H4 standards (maybe BB had an influence).
Then after an application of dermatitis inducing goober on our hands we tucked into Colonel’s Fried Chicken & chips with homemade curry salad (it was very nice salad) from the kitchen of Crayfish.

Another great night of hashing in Perth.

On On
Bushie

Author: John Najar

self funded retiree