This week I am going to remind a few people once again that it is easy to get in shape AND drink beer if you just join your local Hash House Harriers. They are "drinkers with a running problem" and so far a great group of people just all around.
This week's Hash was the most brutal one I have faced yet.
It started out innocent and normal enough with the gathering of people in the jungle locale with waters and a briefing by the people who laid the trail... they were explaining the "rules" which everyone in attendance was already familiar with but it is a formality... just in case.
This week's trail was especially hilly and it was a very hot day. This got combined with the fact that this trail was more than 10km long and normally that would be ok but since it was very hilly, it was extremely tiring. The trails were also very narrow and had loose soil so falling was a constant threat. I honestly didn't like this hash very much because I feel as though it was too long. I ran as much of it as I could and it still took me over an hour. As one of the younger people in the group it is expected that I will finish faster. The last people in our group took over 2 hours to return to "camp."
However, no one was bitching once we all had a chance to cool off and go through our usual beer-drinking ways and make fun of eachother at the end. The beers were flowing and people were laughing and this is, in a shell, what is so great about the HHH in general: We just finished exercising... a lot and now we are having fun. It's kind of a celebration of what is something people should probably do anyway (exercise.)
this pic is only here because i was in night mode (I hate flashes) and someone across from me didn't feel the same way... I thought it was a neat effect
Although I am certain that anyone who wants to look up their local Hash House Harriers has already tried to do so, I suppose this is kind of like my "fit report card" but just in a different way. I, personally, plan to utilize the Hash House Harrier chapters all around the world if I travel again. If you ever find your way to Chiang Mai let me know, I would love to introduce you to our chapter.
