Run Details

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With all that rain recently it was a surprise that Monday's hash wasn't all that boggy with only a little shiggy in a few places, although we were warned that in some places anyone over 4ft would probably end up on their hands and knees! And also a warning that the first few hundred metres were on the road; and so the hash set off left (S) out of the pub down Henfield Rd to the footpath on the left after the houses and down the track S, turning E at the junction onto Dragons Ln and to the house at the end, continuing in S direction and the first of a number of fishhooks. Most hashers didn't run all the way to the back of the pack as Scud and Fetherlite were walking/jogging most of the runners route, and only I went all the way back (although they insisted that we needn't from then on). Turning E, trail would continue onwards all the way to the back of The Royal Oak at Wineham, through 'Hobbit Land' (as Half Moon referred to it) where the footpath was so overgrown everyone ended up struggling through the mass, and then on to FH#2; a number of hashers were spotted SCBing a few fields before the Royal Oak, but would they been remembered by the end of the hash? (Spoiler: Yes!). Turning N behind the Royal Oak (and sadly not around and into it), the pack now continued N over Kent St through the fields and back around to Kent St, this time turning L (SW) before back into the fields (W) and along the track. Cutting back NW at the footpath, FH#3 would greet the pack at the end of the first field and FH#4 at Eastlands Ln. W now along Eastlands Ln, and just before the pub a final FH would lay in wait; LS and HM had been extra-naughty though and this one was just for me - yes, it read '1 Nasty Nips'. My very own fishhook! 😀

Back at the pub, with beer and grub, first up as always would be hares HM and LS and DDs to "Here's to the Hares". DDs swiftly dispatched, next up was Angel for moaning at the start that 8km was too long, and she should have been joined by PD but he had slipped away early and (so that Angel wasn't DDing alone) I moved onto the SCBing hashers, all of whom had been spotted cutting a large chunk off the corner in the fields: PD (already gone), Prinace Crashpian, Knight Rider, Angel (again, and so another DD was handed to her!) and NickO (actually the first SCBer and who had almost gotten away with it but happened to be just in front of me when he SCB'd); DDs to "10,9,8". And finally a welcome back to Scud and Fetherlite who had walk / jogged much of the runners route but had actually stayed with the runners until just beyond 'Hobbit Land'; DDs to "Oh the Seagulls". Next week's hash details were relayed by NickO (The Black Horse, Findon), and the evening closed with a toast to the hash.
- Nasty Nips