Truly running the Hash

We've talked about the Hash run a couple times on this blog and I've now done it 3 times (Cait 4 or maybe more).  Yesterday though, Cait and I, along with our friend Marlo, were the hares!  Hares = we were in charge of organizing food for 35 people and planning and then laying the trail in the morning before everyone arrives at 11.  From what we were told afterwards, ours was a big success.  Woo hoo!

Cait, me, Marlo as the crowd started to arrive

Marlo is big into running and so took on the planning of the trail route, thankfully.  We met her at 8:30 yesterday morning to lay the trail, i.e. throwing flour on the ground every 10 feet or so, trying to aim for places that won't get swept up or licked up by dogs.  The section I had contained the Botanical Gardens and it was not easy finding places to dump flour there - I didn't want to ruin the pretty plants and grass, and there was a security guard tailing me everywhere I turned.  So, I threw some near a garbage can and then on some of said grass in a couple spots, and then was on my way to the next part of the trail.  Ha oops, I heard later from the runners that it was impossible to know where to go in the Botanical Gardens, but fortunately they used their good sense and figured it out.  


I didn't run much yesterday because I'm still recovering from my stupid Achilles tendonitis.  Also, we anticipated about 20 people and ended up with 35, making it one of the biggest (if not the biggest) BA Hashes to date.  So, when everyone went out for the run, I went to the grocery store to get more food and then prepare it.  Everyone's clearly very hungry when returning from the run and especially yesterday since it was ridiculously hot, so it was a good move to have extra food instead of not enough.  There was also plenty of beer, which everyone wants even more than the food when they get back.


When all the hashers left around 5, Cait made the awesome discovery of a big bottle of beer that was left behind.  We weren't sure how it could have been missed considering it's a focal point of the after-run ceremony, but nonetheless, we hares treated ourselves to Cait's perfect find and toasted our good work out in the sun.  


Salud!