Run: #2249 – Let the games begin…

Date: Monday 26/6/23
Location: Gympie
Hares: Gympie Ironman

WOW, a very fit, sporty crowd of sports people gathered at Gympie’s Mt Pleasant Hotel for the Ironman Event. There were: Football/Soccer players representing Argentina, Manchester United; Netballers playing positions: WA, GS; Footy players representing: England, Rugby, Gympie, Qld Maroons, Highlanders; Swimmers, Martial Arts, Surfers, Life Savers, Torch Bearer and various non descript Hashers just to name a few.

Words from Ma’ Dog…

Great night at the ‘Gympie Ironman’ H3 run. Piss poor showing from NH3 but what’s new?! Well done to the 13 Noosa hardcore (real Ironman athletes) that made the effort. A pub crawl ‘up hill, down dale’ across Gympie to wet your whistles. Back to Mt Pleasant pub for the circle and good pub nosh. Really enjoyable, as Gympie H3 always makes us welcome and puts on a good night.

Well, that pretty much sums up this great sporting event that we’ve been training for months in advance! So glad for the training as there were 5 pubs that we had to conquer in 1.15 hours which we were very rushed for drinks as Dolly (Gympie GM) kept time check. At one stop Digit Digester was seen taking her drink with her to keep her hydration levels up. We received various jeers and remarks from the general public either at the pubs or on the streets about at our attire. It was a very warm evening of 22oC, even though we were warned it was going to be freezing in Gympie!

Dinner at the pub was the choice of roast pork or fish with sticky date pudding for dessert. We hope Red Knob replenished his energy when he had excess food donated to him from Holy Smoke, All Fours and Licker. Licker ordered an extra dessert just to eat the ice cream and lick all the caramel sauce off the plate! Next Week kept on winning the raffle draws but only took the bottle of red wine which was promptly drunk by Holy Smoke, Next Week and Kaffir – was better than the boxed stuff.

Thanks to Gympie H3 for the fun, frivolity and hospitality! We’ll be back, but in the meanwhile, I hope you all start training now for the next Ironman…

On On
All Fours