{"id":1455,"date":"2010-08-24T17:59:56","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T16:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2010-09-08T18:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T17:04:11","slug":"a-real-hash-of-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/a-real-hash-of-it\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real Hash of It"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was our turn to be the \u2018Hares\u2019 and lay a hash for our cross-country club, The Mendip Hills Hash House Harriers. We chose the Warwick Arms in Clutton on the advice of a friend then set about trying to find a good circular route that hadn\u2019t already been done.\u00a0 The problem was that there were large sections of straight path where very few other paths came off them.<\/p>\n

When you\u2019re hashing you want a lot of junctions, so the fast runners can shoot off in all directions looking for the right route, while the slower runners catch up in their own time and don\u2019t feel hurried.\u00a0 If you have long straights with no \u2018checking\u2019 then the group can really stretch out and people get separated by quite large distances.<\/p>\n

So after one long straight we thought it would be a good idea to add an extra section in the woods, with lots of checks, for those that still had the energy – though we were already at the limit for the length of the run, which is why it was optimal.<\/p>\n

The problem arose when we discovered that my markings for the longer run overlapped with the markings for the shorter one – so the fast runners soon found their way out of the woods rather than around it.\u00a0 By the time we arrived at the top with the slower runners, who were taking a short cut, the advance party had already left, so we followed on.\u00a0 However, we were supposed to all regroup and check numbers and this was one of those occasions when you really did need to do that.<\/p>\n

It was only at the next regroup that it was noticed we were one down and someone was still running around the woods waiting to meet up with the rest of us.\u00a0 We split up and a search party went back while I went on with the rest of the hash but it wasn\u2019t until after dark that the lost runner arrived back of her own volition, but by that time members of the search party were still trying to find her and we couldn\u2019t find them.\u00a0 A real hash…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was our turn to be the \u2018Hares\u2019 and lay a hash for our cross-country club, The Mendip Hills Hash House Harriers. We chose the Warwick Arms in Clutton on the advice of a friend then set about trying to find a good circular route that hadn\u2019t already been done.\u00a0 The problem was that there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[165,129,166,113,167],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-barefoot-running-diaries","tag-clutton","tag-hash","tag-hashing","tag-mendip","tag-woods","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}