Run 890 - 30 Oct 2005
Run 890-Alhaurin Golf
Sunday 30th October 2005
‘Halloween Run’
Hares: Sparky & Kindergarten Cop
I am writing several weeks after the run and unfortunately the run’s most memorable event is that 6 or so cars were broken into.
It was a great turn out, maybe 50 runners. With my son , Ginger Minge and grand daughter, Band Aid here for a long weekend, ostensibly to visit me but in reality to make the Halloween run. Having attended the ‘nail bar’ for Halloween black painted fingernails we arrived late for the registration at the roadside near Alhaurin Golf, on the Mijas/Coin road: Thus Ginger Minge was obliged to sport the Donkey hat that run.
The run briefing was on top of the highest hill around and with new shoe down downs, it was off down, down, slipping and sliding, with sea views ahead of us. False trails and check-backs encountered and intelligently negotiated, the trail inevitably assumed a northerly direction and we climbed for ever upward, through prickles, factor 10, towards the Mijas Sierras. Skirting the golf course and on on, huffing, puffing and bleeding, to the beer stop along side the carretera.
Suitably refreshed, it was off across the road for the second part of the run, but with a warning that it was ‘a little steep’ and being with Band Aid, I choose the WW (Whingers and Wimps) back along the road, as did Golden Cascade. A wise move as it transpired. As the ‘real hashers’ arrived back at the circle we received stories of mountain ascents and sheer cliff face descents. The worst discovery was though the break-ins to the cars and the thefts of credit cards, cell phones, cash, ID docs and personal papers. I missed the circle trying to assist so cannot recount any down downs etc.
The On On was at the Venta just to the east of the run start.
On On ( your stand-in-scribe) El Cid
