Mother Hash 80 years! "pre event"

  --Along with local trails you can also attend large events like regional hashes (Pacific North West Inter Hash, Texas Inter Hash, Gold Rush H3, and so many more), national hashes (Inter Americas, Nash Hash, Euro Hash, and more), and then you have the biggest one of all the Inter Hash. All these hashes are not just show up for a few hours and you are done, nope! Typically they are a 3 day (Fri, Sat, & Sun) event and most often they have pre and post events with them.--

Mother Hash 80th!

This blog is about my adventure with the 80th anniversary of Mother Hash. Thanks to our Father of the Hash House Harriers (H3), Gispert and his friends for starting this runners club in 1938 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (KL) we are able to celebrate 80 years of hashing in Sept 2018.

My registration was # 270 for the main event and # 254 for the Green Dress pre-lube. I flew to KL on the Mon before the event and left on several days after. This would allow me to do a little site seeing before and after the main event. This also allowed me to do several pre-lube hashes. I had a few friends that did a very special pre-lube which was a train ride stopping in several towns along the way to hash. I heard it was an amazing train ride. I was scheduled to take part in the Green Dress Run (GDR) on Thur, grab my Registration (Rego) bag on Fri morning, enjoy the event, and figure out the rest as I went.

            Well this is what really happened! You better hold on because it comes and goes quickly. I arrived in KL on Wed and had a hard time getting to the hotel. Lucky for me I made friends with a hasher that was staying in the hotel next to me. I was able to catch a ride with her. We ended up having a wonderful late night dinner out on the town, strictly platonic. Thurs I planned to do the GDR and hurry over to the Canadian run called the “Sad Cow” that I just learned about. I did not Rego for the Sad Cow but I was hoping to crash on in. It took me all day to do my nails, my hair, and make this handsome man a sexy woman, LOL. Ok maybe not my nails and my hair was a wig! But I was looking darn sexy!

            We all met at a big park for the GDR. When I got there the park was crowded with hasher. They have several pop-ups with items to buy and things to do. I met old and lots of new friends. We laughed and enjoyed ourselves. The event started at some point it was like being in a big race but not, lots of people trying to start out and find “their” spot. At some point we were spread out and it was easier to move around. I don’t remember to much about the trail other than they gave us a token. This token was VERY important to trail. At one point we all entered the subway station. We had to use that token to get onto the train and get off on a certain stop. Just think of this, you have a 100 or more hashers in green dresses running through the subway, jumping on the train, getting off the train, and then running out of the train station all while yelling and saying our traditional calls like R-U, On-On, and more. I do remember once I exited the train itself I saw a guy with a pretty cool set up playing a guitar. While being the Dirty MF that I am I took my guitar hero guitar and played next to him while posing for a photo. Can you find it below! At the end of the trail I waited for as long as I could but I had a dead line to make it to the Sad Cow.

            I took off and ran to the next location where the Sad Cow was had just started. I found the hash cash person and told them who I was and I needed to pay because I had not regoed yet. Everyone that had regoed got a cool shirt, I got a red hat with a maple leaf on the front. Well I took that plan hat from Canada and I marked it up with my name and the date of my very first Sad Cow trail. Currently today in 2025 I have hashed in 2 Canadian trails but have yet to hash in Canada, it will change this year! I was very lucky to has with them and lucky enough at the very very end to get one of the very few shirts that had not been claimed. Yea for me!

            Ok, Fri is here and it is busy too. I get my rego bag and check in for the main event. Then a friend of mine called "Heiney Girl" asked if I was going to the Founders hash. I was like what are you talking about. We talked for a while and I learned about a hash within a hash called “Founder H3.” It is a hash just for those hashers that have found or helped establish a kennel. The requirements are the hash has to hash monthly and be more than 12 months old. Well shot me silly, I helped start SSH3 in WA State in 2008 and it is 2018. I believe I qualify, heck yeah I will come. Here I met the current GM of the Founders H3, "I-feel Tower." This guy I tell you what, he is so smart and sharp that you would think he was in a library for years and years doing nothing but educating himself. But he is not, He is retired and enjoying the best hash life he can. This guy travels and has so much knowledge. I-Feel Tower is a very famous hasher and is in the Genus Book of Records. Hopefully you will have the opportunity to meet him someday.

After meeting I-Feel Tower I meet several others that are part of the Founders hash, roughly 16 of us on this trip. The Hare was I-Feel Tower and he started us in an abandoned parking lot. He lead us all through some dangerous territory! It was up hill, it was jumping over holes in the sidewalks, passing strangers along the way. Its ok, we only lost a few drops of water as we sweated through the blistering heat. We ended at a small shop to have our circle, enjoy a beverage, and talk shop with our fellow founders. It was a great time and something new to me.

          After seeing more of the town I relaxed in my room so that I could be ready for the next adventure. Please read my next blog Mother Hash 80 years! “main event.”  Thank you for your time and see you on the next one.

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