QH3 Run 870. Nags Head, East Leake

QH3 RUN #870
Date : Sunday 7 June 2015 (11:00)
Location: Nags Head, East Leake (LE12 6PG)
Hares: Too Tuf and Chicki
Weather: Glorious Sunshine
Pack size: 17




You would certainly hope the RA could organise good weather for her own trail and she certainly did. Malteaser (Hash Facs) provided the following factoid - this was the first ever Quorn hash trail set from East Leake, though we have run from West Leake on seven previous occasions. Whilst Nags Head is a common pub name, this was only the fourth Nags Head we've run from (the others being in Lambley, Castle Donington and Harby).
It was a good-sized pack that swelled as the morning went on. Arse returned for her 2nd QH3 run bringing two friends, Sophie and Laura. We also had visitor Caboose whose enthusiasm in walking from East Midlands Parkway was noted. A 'former' hasher Bostik ran much of the trail on her early morning run and joined us for the On Inn at the Nags Head.

Without any pause or hesitation B*gger ran straight into the river

Wallington's most dynamically active part of today's trail

We got our feet wet very soon into the trail with a river crossing, the only refusal being Malteaser, a sin not noted by the RA. Just as we crossed over the Great Central Railway line we were treated to a steam and diesel arrival at Rushcliffe Halt.

The train spotters on the hash were delighted to see the arrival of steam locomotive 8274 at Rushcliffe Halt, a LMS Stannier Class 8F steam loco, an ex-Turkish guest on the GCR(N)

From the Rushcliffe Halt up alongside the golf course it was a steep long uphill climb terminated by a 'regroup' check, though a rumour was put about, mainly to discredit the hares, that this was a beer stop. At this point a discussion was held with the hares about bribery and corruption and how much they had been

paid to advertise the 'Re Group'. Your scribe also made a suggestion to the hares regarding a brown enveloped and a favourable write up. Needless to say, from this point onwards, this really crap trail gets the write up it deserves!

Dope and Wallington were short-cutters already on their first pints when I arrived back at the Nags Head marginally ahead of Diarrhoea. My GPS registered 6.66 miles, a devil of a hash.

Chicki our RA ran the circle and awarded down downs to;

1. Smutley - Welcome back and cocking up his Euro hash registration.
2. Caboose - Visitor to the hash with an impressive journey to East Leake.
3. Sophie and Laura - hash virgins
4. Goblin - competitive driving
5. Dope and Wallington for whom the short-cut was the best bit of the trail!
6. Bostik - an East Leake local, why had she taken so long to coming running with the QH3?
7. The hares - following a run discussion (no sheep, river crossing, steam trains, no beer stop, etc) the trail was awarded a mere 41%. It could have been so much more!

On On....Durex

Trail as done by Durex