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as a result of Mike
and Gill Gilby moving to High Wycombe having run with the Cheshire HHH for 200
runs or so. On his first half a dozen runs with Cheshire he had met and ran
with Robin Higgons, who subsequently moved to Haddenham. Robin
had had no sucess in making contact with a hash that ran one night
of the week all year as we do since the hashes in the area all run
weeknights in the summer and Sundays during the winter. Being
a "BUSY" marketing director he claims that he had no time to start
his own and had given up hope of ever hashing again. Then Mike and Gill
moved to the area and the Cheshire GM told him of their arrival. After a bit of
arm twisting on his part, he managed to convince Mike to start the
HWHHH and declare himself the GM.
So on the 5th March Mike set the first HWHHH trail of 5 miles, and following
Cheshire HHH's tradition it was set with white loo paper with false
trails at every check. Then on that fateful day 5 hashers plus Halley (the
Hash dog)
turned up at the Stag and Huntsmen at Hambleden and made the
inaugural run. Of those 5+1 original hashers the only ones still running are
Robin and Mike. A few of the original hashers will be remembered
namely Jiff 'Aussie' Fletcher and Paul Clark.
The numbers hardly changed over the next couple of months but
people changed and some long standing runners are Robert Martyr,
Jim 'Raiser' Bradley and Gerry 'Hashpap' Palmer and occasional vists
from Gill Gilby during school holidays.
The numbers remained static at around eight or so for a long time
with people coming and going. Gill then decided "sod this!" and arranged to
have every Tuesday evening off for hashing. Then the hash was put on the WWW
and suddenly we had a surge of numbers and we now run with a
steady average of twenty runners. What makes the WHHH a good bunch to
run with is the fact that we are about evenly split on the sexes and
our ages cover a wide band from 18 to 65.
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