Run -1832 - 4th December 2022

Mijas HHH run 1832

2022-12-04 Location Ricmar.

Writeup: Big Brother

So, it took no less than three hashers, Jerry Can, Rick o’Shea and Kindergarden to compensate for

one injured hare, Yogi, who had to decline to set this trail for ‘bad-knee reasons’. Yogi wrote “I’m

injured and I will say this only once: I can’t set trails” and wrote that 2-3 times on all available social

media! Fair enough, he got his intended responses – three emergency hares -.

I thought the most common hash injury would be in arms and shoulders, from excessive lifting of

beer cans and cava bottles, but no, knees it seems to be: Yogi’s, mine, Big Mouth’s and dozens of

other hashers’ knees. Could this be linked to our shrinking youth?

Now, a word about the “scribe task”: Kindergarden kindly asked me “Are you comfortable in writing

English, I would not normally ask a non-native British-speaker?” I mumbled, something like “yes

sure” given the fact that I have worked some 20 years in companies documenting all in English.

However, that was proper English, not hash language…..

Kindergarden however asked the wrong question! He should have asked: “How much do you know

your fellow hashes, their names and habits?” Well, on my first hash here I had to learn three

hasher’s names, and now after a dozen runs with the group I might have learnt 5-6! So forgive me

for not getting that part very correct, I’m really bad at remembering names – even before my

current shrinking youth -!

Btw, I wonder if Kindergarden remember that he has asked me exactly the same question at one of

my first Mijas hashes, but at that time I declined claiming I hardly knew anyone.

Now, this was a too long intro, lets turn to the actual run, in bullet form, so you can easily ‘fast

forward’ if/when boring:

 Chalk talk: two hares in combo, of course they were not in full agreement on marks and trail and

kept correcting each other for a while ��. Somehow, they concluded on quite normal marks: CB,

BS, Splits, M/W splits and “You’re On whenever”.

 They also presented an AI-supported computer analyses of the trail: expected mortality rate on

trail 3,74% - that could well be the hares to fill that quota if the trail turned out to be crap -!

 (There were some latecummers, - remember more often to punish them in the circle! )

 Dinner count – 19 ! OK: On Out on trail!

 First check was a two-arrow split, However it was in reality a tricky check that entertained us for

a good 5-6 minutes, and somehow, Chutney Ferret got so exited at that point so he spent the

rest on the run exploring that same area (another way of saying he got very lost and thus missed

a good beer/cava stop, but on the other hand he got quite a bit of own peaceful running done).

 After that onwards in varied terrain, nice and not unusual, ups, downs, sand, stones, bushes,

checks, splits until we headed mainly downward, all the way to the A7, and with hashers

checking both over it and under it. The A7 is not my favorite road for several reasons, noisy,

dangerous enters and exits etc, so hashing close to it took off 0,53 from my trail score.

 After A7 uphill again, leaving tarmac and housing areas and into the brown/green again. I had

the joy to be first into a wet, sandy and muddy river bed, and stumbled on a while just to find

the cute letters CB (Check Back). Hashing as it should be ��

 Soon after that another (or same?) river bed with a clever check, were all the runners got held

up by searching in about 8 different directions until the right one was found quite some level

higher up. Btw, credit to Pister Bradwee (and sometimes myself) for carefully marking the

checks for followers, e.g. with branch-arrows, this throughout the trail!

 A short further run took us to the waiting Drink Stop. (Its called BS here, I know, but being a

‘correct-ish’ Swede, it is actually a DS, by serving a great variety of drinks).

 83,5 seconds !!! That is the time Salmonella Rushdie stayed at the drink stop before he whined:

“I’m cold, where is the trail, wanna go”, and he set off, joined by QOT. Well in my view that’s a

disrespect to good Beer and Cava. Have to remember that sin for future circles, should it happen

again.

 (Heading back to Sweden even while writing this at 10.000+ meters, we are expected to run the

7 dec Wednesday evening hash, featuring about -6 centigrades, with full darkness, some snow,

with outdoor DS and circle! Salmonella, you are challenged to join a winter run in Stockholm !!)

 After having given proper respect to Beer and Cava a next handful of us (BigB, Sars, KinderG,

Neckless) set off on the M-trail option, a hilly climb, but rewarded by great mountain and sea

views and returning to the On-In at exactly the same time as the majority of walkers. That is a

sign of excellent hare work !! (or very good luck).

OK a few words about the circle, too, also in bullets:

 The sun came out and not even Salmonella could complain about the weather. Good weather

credit is, as always, to the responsible, i.e. the RA Colonic.

 The AI-system announced at the start failed. The mortality rate was much lower than 3,74 %.

 The “sitting devices” in the circle require a special mention:

- one of the fittest runners, Sars, is often the first to park herself on a sun chair in the circle and

rather unwilling to leave her comfortable chair.

- a few hashers (names unclear) brought miniature foldable camping chairs, good for

backpackers or cyclists perhaps, but when arriving in a decent size car, it was a bit of an under-

achievement. Downdowns awarded.

- Yogi on the other hand brought a 2,5 ton 4x4 white huge SUV car straight through the circle

and parked in the far end of the circle to sit on. A major overachievement! However, can’t recall

any DD for that sin?!

 Salmonella found a wet three stump to sit on. Lazy!

 The scribe maintains the old habit (as there are no rules) to stand in the circle. Quite natural

heritage from Sweden, where sitting in the circle in practice equals sitting on ice (wintertime at

least).

 Another habit (as rule number 1 states there are no rules) that the scribe never heard of is that

there is a sin if the cars are visible from parts of the trail – and they were -. DD awarded to the

hares.

 Kaka Maps was substantially on the phone and Gang Bang too. DDs of course (The RA missed out

or ignored that the scribe was frenetically typing on his phone (in order to record at least a few

sins and hashnames. Can take my DD for that next time).

 We had a visitor, Little Stiffy, who of course had to explain the background to his interesting

name �� (which I however forgot).

 Swedes(turnips?) or rather Scandihuligans seem to be punished collectively in group whatever

the reason is. In this case it might have been the joy that two of them are safely deported on a

plane heading north. DDs knocked down.

By that I will a save you from any other sins that I don’t remember and I wrap up by noting that a

great part of the bunch moved their asses to the restaurant Mini India in Elvira for a nice meal.

Over and out, have a good holiday period and hopefully see you all next year.

/ BigBother & BigMouth