Once every two years Nash
Hash sees the best of the weirdo hashers from across India and South Asia land
at a unsuspecting resort or two.
This year, a resurrected
Bangalore Hash House Harriers (BH3), with Pervert Producer and team decided to
take on the mismanagement.
Shreya (a.k.a Loan Shark)
and I (a.k.a phatphatia) jumped on the chance and quickly registered.
165 hashers registered
for the event, including nearly 10 right down to the wire, and a stowaway, who
paid his rego at Virajpet!
Day 1 of the event saw most
of the 165 hashers boarding tempo travelers from Bangalore. We got on a bus
with hashers from Bombay Hash. N1 and N2 remember the bus ride the best.
After copious amounts of
Old Monk, we started our leg of the relay run around noon. Our team, the Green
Lanterns, did some damage to Hash spirit, by running competitively and winning
the relay.
Lunch was organized with Faasos biryani travelling all the way from Bangalore in transport
sponsored by Big Basket and served through a live counter at the Periyapatna
sports stadium some 240 km from Bangalore! The relay continued after lunch with
last team running more than their share of 8.5 km segment thanks to good
mismanagement.
The convoy reached Club
Mahindra Virajpet and settled into our beautiful spacious rooms nested in a
valley. The dinner and party was at the party hall, rising from the lawns and towering
over the entire property. Magnificent sight it was. We shook a leg or two, but retired
quickly. 
The marquee run was on
the 27th and the run site was near the Harangi dam reservoir. I was
volunteered as a FRB (Front Running Bast*rd) hare and left early to get
familiar with the trail. Loan Shark was the lone shark with Lilliput 1.0 and
Lilliput 2.0 for the full 2hr bus ride.
Once they reached there,
they were escorted by Half moon, first to the water stop and then to the Coorg
Lagoon resort for lunch and circle revelries. The imagery of Hashers littering
around the hills and meadows in search of the trail near the waterfront (where
chalk / flour could be confused for seagull poop) will be etched in my memory
for long. Lilliput remembers little more than the trampoline and hammock.
We got back pretty late
for the kids to enjoy the play area or the pool at the resort, but we partied
till we could. Loan Shark (again “lone”) reluctantly left the party to tend to
the kids, while I phatphatied till Sexobics, our Dj, could play no more, of
course with my hair down. The next gen hashers (dude and sexobics daughters)
set the floor on fire with their groovy dancing and singing.
28th January saw the
recovery run start at 9:00 a.m. with the Lungi Treasure hunt, with
hashers looking for tokens that were strewn in the plantation area of the
resort. Lone Shark and the kids spent some quality time in the pool while appa
was up in the trees looking for treasure. At the circle, LitHerBum was crowned
the Lungi Queen and Nash Hash finally wound up at 11 a.m. And the
buses trundled homewards with hashers having happy memories of 3 exciting days.
We finally got back home late in the night, just having enough time to pack for
our next road trip to Coimbatore…
On On
