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Aberdeen H3 Run No 1341
Date: 13th April 2008
OnOn: Persley Walled Garden, Bucksburn
Hare: Goat Wrestler
The pack gathered in the car park next to Persley Walled Garden in the weak sunshine – the first sun seen in the North East of Scotland for two weeks. Solicitous enquiries from GM Sergio were quickly followed by the news from the circle that I was the chosen one for this week’s scribe.
The pre-run Down-Down went to Goat Wrestler along with a tasteful and practical blue sweatshirt for reaching 150 runs, before the pack set off in the usual direction over the bridge towards Tesco.
A loop around Bannatynes sports club led the pack back under the bridge and west along the river bank where the front runners caught sight of the SCB’s ahead. The SCB’s followed trail from the check along the river but Cinders and Fifi thought better and parallel tracked along the road until they came across the next check and saw some walkie-talkies uphill ahead of them. So far so familiar.
On up the hill through the scrubby woodland in the company of Toy Boy Tom and out round the fields until a sweetie check was happened upon. The flour spots were sparingly laid which may account for the fact that a number of FRB’s (Numbskull(!), Little Shit, Hippo, Plonker) short cut past the chocolate repast. All the more for the rest.
Trail led on across some perfectly manicured pasture (much admired by Aids, whose own lawn, apparently, hardly bears comparison), and back across the Parkway into suburbia. A fairly straightforward, but cunningly disguised by lack of flour, route led back down the hill to the playing fields by the river where a number of civilian footie matches were in progress.
It must go over the Grandholm bridge, I thought, but, “No”, said Cinders, “I’ve checked and there’s no flour over there.” At this, Plonker approached to report sighting of a Hare on the far side of the river and miraculously, flour had now appeared over the bridge after all. Another two hundred yards and a welcome B was spotted. It wasn’t long before the rest of the pack turned up along with JC, Jiffy and Heebie Jeebie making a three-wheeled sprint for the finish.
Down Downs were awarded to:
Megane: For hoarding all the Hash Signs in her garage
Hippo: For undue fastidiousness about the cleanliness of his beer can
Little Shit: For stockpiling two cans of beer in his car before the run started to ensure he didn’t have to wait for Hash Beer’s return at the end
Sergio: For total incompetence at operating Hash Beer’s electronic car key
Goat Wrestler: For haring
Bruce Almighty: For being constantly misunderstood in Oz as Piss Almighty
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