Run - 2011 - 29th March 2026
Check out this trail from @Wikiloc!
https://loc.wiki/t/256505516?h=3z5ldgy8pq&wa=sd&la=en (MijasH3 run Virgen Del Rosario from Benahavís)
"Hashers, please take some time to have a look at this week's trail, it has lots of photos which do not appear on the MijasH3 web page. On on".
Run 2011
March 29th 2026
Hares: Just Say When & Sir Flakey
Pack Size 33 + 2 Hares
Virgins:
Mijas HHH – Run No 2011
“Virgin Del Rosario Benahavis”
HARES:
Just Say When (Queen of Trails) & Sir Flakey (I’m sure is Queen of something?)
As befits her majesty runs, 33 Hashers cautiously gathered up survival gear, first-aid kit and satellite GPS phones with there favourite hospital on speed-dial and set forth on the long, long trip to Benahavis. However for one SARS this was a rare occasion to attend a run close to her home. The Hares circled up down a dusty potholed dirt track some 400 meters from where the website Circle pin-drop had sent us, a perfectly good tarmacadam car-park, necessitating some Hashers to actually having to walk to get to the beer wagon. God knows what lamenting would ensue when they would have to go all the way back and forth to get there chairs for the Circle-up?
Sandra Bollocks started proceedings as GM and invited Fliss to inform the pack of the usual background information one has to have off a new Virgin and to warn her that she has to remember 3 hash names at the end of the run after we all introduced ourselves. The Hares were bought in and as is tradition proceeded to assume we had knowledge of how they marked the trail. In the confusion of flour on dirt we seemed to believe (or hope) there was several intersecting trails that offered a very short run to one of QoT’s epics. Even Salmonella Rushdie and Bloody Pinnochio, who thrive on hill-running extreme, seemed a little perplexed as to what was in store.
So we all started together, looking for flour in a jungle of lush undergrowth, eventually finding first mark on apparently a snake’s nest! Soon the trail wandered, as is custom, uphill and across the main road onto a barren and sun scorched hill. Walkers quickly peeled off to whatever fate awaited them whilst a small band of runners continued climbing, climbing, climbing. This hill cunningly was to become a loop for the runners, after of course the usual false trails, missing flour/paper (this was not mentioned in the Circle!). As we descended what we previously climbed we rejoined the walker’s trail. However we should have known with two of the most devious Hares in the business, this so-called walkers trail turned out to be 9 out of 10 on the hash horror index with reported injuries coming in from a hospitalised Bloody Pinnochio, Speedbumps (plus two dogs) and SARS. God knows if any of the walkers survived as by this time the runners were on to the middle section of the trail and after 9kms were wondering if they had missed the first beer stop. For the walking wounded and old running farts like me two hours to the first beer stop seemed a tadge long. After crossing the river, twice, we eventually saw JSW and her trusty side-kick, Clit Hero who graciously gave us back-runners a lift to the next Cava Stop. On route passing Belgium MILF and Genie in a Bottle who had got themselves lost on trail and were thumbing lifts off passing motorists.
With the pack together, copious amounts of Cava drunk, minus one hospitalised runner, we set off on what was to be the prettiest part of the trail, following a Camino del Rey style refurbished of an old Arab water channel that meandered around the valley hill-side and over a pedestrian bridge to a number of viewpoints, one of which had a gate open, to which the Mijas trail took us all down to the river side and another Cava stop. Opportunity to swim in quite frankly arctic temperature waters was of course done by Big Mouth and Genie in a Bottle, both residents of Sweden, and newly arrived from the land of frozen lakes.
So after 13kms of at times gruelling trails and beautiful hillside pathways, we all hit the Circle and, as is now custom, formed the circle of folding chairs. Whilst the GM bought back in the Virgin, the hashers she named and returners, Piss Pourer was realising there was no down down beers as the organising Hares were nowhere to be seen as they were having their own battle with gas tanks and burners that would not light. More chaos continued as the walkers, having been informed they would not be getting there feet wet, found out they had to cross the river and, with no dry wear to change, much lemmatizing incurred. Beer was eventually found and a number of down downs was given by an old returning RA (did he ever go??) as the current RA seemed to be under the weather with a sore toe or something…. Hares were led into the Circle and a very mixed score was given ranging from the 9.999 recurring because there was Cava and a nice stroll to 4’s, 6’s and 7’s depending on how injured or lost you got. This scribe has no idea what the final average was but I would give it an 11 just for the picnic and beautiful homemade desserts.
Roles of Honour were mentioned with:
Genie in a Bottle on 25 runs
Dead End on 55 runs
SARS on 110 runs
Sandra Bollock on 165 runs
Blanka Wanka on 175 runs
From Behind on 290 runs
But leading this week’s pack is.... (drum roll)....
Cardinal Colonic Irrigation with a mighty 665 runs.
Eventually the wine bottles were opened, the paellas were cooking, the mushroom soup reheated and the salad bowls uncovered and what was to be a fantastic picnic was underway.
Your Scribe:
Muzzle-Im
ps.
Does anybody know how BP is?
Check out this trail from @Wikiloc!
https://loc.wiki/t/256505516?h=3z5ldgy8pq&wa=sd&la=en (MijasH3 run Virgen Del Rosario from Benahavís)
"Hashers, please take some time to have a look at this week's trail, it has lots of photos which do not appear on the MijasH3 web page. On on".