Going for the Burn(s)

In which the Mersea Hash House Harriers get all poetic

Sometimes it makes a change to run in an urban environment and this just what we did on Saturday (24 January). Although there were a surprising number of historical elements to this outing. 

Thro' bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.

It also happened to co-incide with Burns Night the following evening and there was much talk of Haggis with most of the emphasis being on the accompanying whisky.

Such a clean and sober looking young man - I don't
think, somehow, he was a hasher!

Matilda lies in wait outside 'The Live and Let Live' pub
where the hash started and finished

How about this for a sneak peek through the fence
that is actually a garden pond whose origins were a river.

The Hare sets us a challenge before we set off
they obviously found it amusing!

Despite the cold it was a bright enough day and there were
surprisingly plenty of open green spaces to be enjoyed

There's got to be a pile of sawdust round here somewhere!

I told you it was full of history - a, muddy, jaunt along
Gryme's Dyke which is part of an iron-age fortification -
it was devilish too

Climbing up out of the ditch

Who Wears showing how to get your leg over on a hash

And there were lots of opportunities to have a go at
getting your leg over on this outing

Of course the challenge that the Hare set was to take note of how many roads we'd passed which were named after poets. I wish I had taken more notice when he was giving out the instructions! You will have to have an outing there yourselves to count how many!

The Usual Stats:

It was an interesting area, full of history and it has been fun looking up and researching Iron Age Colchester.

See you on the next hash and until then happy running!