MH3 Run 226. Blue Bell Inn, Melbourne.16/04/2012



The Blue Bell Inn, Melbourne, Derbyshire

 Rain was promised for this evening but didn't arrive until this hash had packed its bags and gone home. Oriface was the Hare, 4.05 miles of hashing was promised, and as you would expect from this hare, it was a runners' run.

An unusual sight was seen in the first 200 m of this trail - Dobber running (or was he tripping) up the first check and pretending to be a FRB.

We've run  many hashes from Melbourne but this was the first time I think we'd ventured into the newly planted "Poppy Woods" with an excellent selection of permissive paths. Bugger running with a "saw" knee and Trianal wheezing with a "sore" throat meant Lightning Rod and Butcher's Dog were the leaders of the pack tonight. I just tried hard to keep in front of Goblin so I didn't have to look at her bright pink T-Shirt. Ballcrusher was fresh out of winter hibernation and faded from the front after the first mile. Gobalot suffering from the abundance of oil seed rape pollen, brought up the rear,leading a fairly sizable pack of walkers who decided to do the full trail.

An indoor circle and a jug of beer, sinners, hares and numbers 6 and 12 were suitably rewarded with half-a-pints of the worst beer. Apparently that note book Dobber uses at the end of the hash is full of random numbers.
Nice to be running out in the countryside in daylight again, and much of it on virgin hash trail.

We were promised 4.05 miles and I got 4.47 miles - MH3 Run 226 as Durex ran it.