Run 912 - 26 Mar 2006
Run 912 - Ojen Road
Sunday 26th March
Hares: Stiffs
Marks 9/10,
Well here I am serving my penance for being the late arrival at the run this week. Run 912 started this week from just behind La Caсada, Marbella. It was glorious weather with the sun shinning to welcome the first day of spring.
We left the car park on a gentle up slope to crest the hill and see……… a cement works (or some such.) Hmmmm I’m a bit unsure of the scenery here. Hold on we’ve hung a right and now we’re following a path through pine trees that opens out onto a grassy meadow. The trail led up to the crest of the hill (a nice bit of exercise with the sun on your back) and then descend on the other side.
Descend being the operative word. If I’d had a parachute , base jumping would have solved the whole query as to how to get down. As it was, Bendover found the answer. Go down on your bum and use your elbows as brakes. What’s a bit of skin and a few rocks between friends.
Hold on, the trails going up another hill. And boy what a hill. Everything is green and lush and sprinkled with spring flowers. (Wow the sun really was quite hot.) When we reached the top, what awesome views. Inland across to La Concha and down over Marbella and out to sea. A Nun’s outfit and a couple of goats and I could have broken into the sound of Music. Thank god a short stroll away was the beer stop and some excellent chocolate brownies.
The second half started on a downward slope to the stream at the bottom of the Valley. At some point here Golden Cascade decided to follow her own trail and went off at a complete tangent to the rest of the Hash.
The problem with going down into a valley is you have to go up the other side. This was a serious hill. Why oh why oh why leave it to the end of the run when I’m completely knackered??? I finally reached the top in desperate need of oxygen and sweating buckets. There is a gentle run in back to the car park, the circle and a well deserved beer. Where I was christened. I wasn’t expecting or ready for that at all!!!!!
All in all an excellent hash in beautiful countryside with stunning views and some testing hills. That earned the hares a well deserved 9.
Stooby (Tight Arse.)
