Madison Hash House Harriers

June 7, 2008

HASH HISTORY - HASH RUN #1608 - The Annual Running of the Brides

Reported by DRIBS and BABY BALLS - written 8.5 miles above Canada "The wind began to blow..." From the Wizard of Oz There was tremendous storm activity with tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings just before this hash was to start. We don't why we thought it would be a good day for a hash but it turned out to be exactly that. The sun came out as the run started and even though clouds came in later we managed to miss the downpour, but all the marks had been obliterated, so EARLY CUMMER, wearing a fine minister's robe, kind of had to direct us. There was a good turnout for the weather and there were some beautiful brides including a pregnant Beer Nuts. It's would be unfair to call the trail screwed up because there really wasn't one after the rain got through with it. We ran around seemingly at random for a while then stopped at the Come back in for a couple of beers. We headed off down E. Wash, cut over to the bike path around Paterson, then up Willy and King Sts. to the Capital building where there was a ceremony to all marry each other or maybe it was to marry ourselves. I don't really remember what my vows were at the ceremony but I've probably broken them all by now. After the ceremony we abandoned what was supposed to be the trail and just followed the hare. We ran counterclockwise around the inner ring of the square where we posed on the steps for photos by some quasi-celebrity woman and her young son, then off up Wisconsin Ave. and left down Gilman where we stopped to share beers at a porch party of grad students who may come to red-dress run. The pack was completely distracted by this and decided to drink straight from their pitchers as they poured into our mouths from their front porch. Then it was on to State St. for the scheduled beer stop at The Pub. Then up State and back across the Capital grounds to The On-In at The Argus, in their basement room. The hares RACK 'EM UP and EARLY CUMMER served sloppy-joes, chips and salad along with beeer form the bar. Ceremonies were conducted with assistance from CO CO until NUTFARMER arrived after being temporarily whisked away by high winds. Among the many awards was a return visit from seldom seen SQUAT, a visitor from the Over the Hump Hash, a guy we picked up along the way, an announcement from CO CO that the long distance relay team had to drop from the race due to the collapse of the only nonhasher on the team, and a new hashshit song from the Nashhash-- "no, no, no,--bad, bad, bad,--drink, drink, drink--down, down, down".

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