The Bombay Hash House Harriers don't take their athletics too seriously. At 10am, when the rest of the city's joggers were no doubt finished and showered, the 'hashers' were busy unloading beer and ice from a car. There were sandwiches to eat, greetings to be made and a few brief guidelines given, and then the 20 or so hashers were off through a fishing village at anything from a fast trot to a friendly stroll, shouting 'on! on!'. Well, you probably need to be a little loopy to run in this city. I had always wanted to try hashing. It is a bit like urban orienteering without compasses and without rules. The idea is that the runners follow a course marked with chalk or, in our case, red electrical tape. The course could include false trails,
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