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Run 1908 – Thursday November 10th ~ Surbiton

Hare – Half Baked

This week’s run will be from The Black Lion, 58 Brighton Road, KT6 5PL Map Link. The nearest station is Surbiton which is served by a fast and frequent overground service from Waterloo and Clapham Junction. There will be a trail of chalk P arrows from the station to help you find the pub which is about seven minutes walk. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours. The pub serves food, mostly Pizza, kitchen open until ten P.M. and has a good selection of local Ales. There will be unsecured bag storage at the pub and we hope to have a a bag minder.

Bring a torch

Run 1907 – Thursday November 3rd ~ Chiswick

Hare – Standard Deviant

This week’s run will take place from at the recently re-opened Old Station House, 2 Grove Park Road, Chiswick, W4 3SG Map Link. The pub is very close to Chiswick mainline railway station, and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from both its platforms to help you find the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its duration. Their kitchen is not yet in operation, so food will not be available. Bring a torch.

Note that the transport strike originally scheduled for this day has been postponed and rail and tube should be running normally. If anyone is travelling by tube (district line stations Turnham Green and Chiswick Park) it is a short ride to Chiswick railway station on the E3 bus from Chiswick High Road.

Run 1906 – Thursday October 27th ~ Ravenscourt Park

Harse – Smart Ar*e, For Sale or Rent, Kebab

This week’s run will be from the The Prince of Wales pub, 73 Dalling Road, London W6 0JD Map Link. The nearest station is Ravenscourt Park Tube station and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours

There will be a Hallowe’en theme, so dress spookily.

There will be a drink stop, with a variety of beer in cans, so you won’t need collapsible cups.

The pub is happy to store bags, but not securely, so if anyone isn’t running it might be a good idea to have a volunteer mind the bags.

The hares have booked the outside garden area for afterwards, which according to SA ‘should be warm enough as they have those heater buttons in the booths as well as a large flame unit in the middle’.

Run 1905 – Thursday October 20th ~ North Ealing

Hare – Optimist

This week’s run pub will be from The Greystoke, 7 Queens Parade, Hanger Lane, North Ealing, Greater London, W5 3HU Map Link . The pub is about 100 metres from North Ealing underground station on the Piccadilly Line.

The run will start form the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours. It will be an A to B trail, returning to the pub via public transport (bus or tube). You should therefore bring means to pay on trail.

Bags can be left in the pub, not securely, but we have a volunteer to watch over them.

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Run 1904 – Thursday October 13th ~ Twickenham

Hare – Petal

This week’s run will be from The Albany 1 Queen’s Rd, Twickenham TW1 4EZ  Map Link the nearest station is Twickenham mainline station, which is so close that the Hare considers a P trail to the pub unnecessary, so use the map link above if you do not know the area. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will provide bag storage for its duration. A torch would be advisable, but not essential.

Run 1903 – Thursday October 6th ~ Hanwell

Hare – K4

This week’s run will be from The Viaduct, 221 Uxbridge Road, W7 3TD  Map Link the nearest station is Hanwell on the Elizabeth Line and there will a trail of chalk P arrows from that station to help you find the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will provide a secure place to store our bags for its duration. Bring a torch.

Run 1902 – Thursday September 29th ~ Fulham Broadway

Hare – Beetroot

This week’s run will be from The Fulham Mitre, 81 Dawes Road, SW6 7DU, Map Link, 8 minutes walk from Fulham Broadway tube station (District Line, Wimbledon Branch) and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from that station to help you find the pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will look after our bags for its duration.

There will be a G&T drink stop, so bring a cup, and bring a torch.

Run 1901 – Thursday September 22nd ~ Hampstead Heath

Hare – Castrato

This week’s run will take place from The Magdala Tavern 2A S Hill Park, London NW3 2SB Map Link. The nearest station is Hampstead Heath overground and the pub is almost opposite this station, so no need for a P trail. The pub can also be accessed from Hampstead underground station from which it is ten minutes down hill walk, not P trailed. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will provide secure bag storage for its duration. The Hare says that the trail will be 8 Km and mostly off road so bring a torch.

Run 1900 – Thursday September 15th ~ Strawberry Hill

Hare – Airhead

This week’s run will be from the tap room of The Jawbone Brewery, 1 Strawberry Vale, London TW1 4RY Map Link. The nearest station is Strawberry Hill which is on the mainline, just one stop beyond Twickenham, and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from that station to help you find this establishment. The run will start from the Brewery at our usual time of 19.15 hours and they will store our bags for its duration. Tucked away on Twickenham riverside, just below Radnor Gardens, this will be a Hash first for this brewery which boasts a fine selection of craft ales as well as wine, G&Ts, soft drinks, and a selection of crisps and nuts. The brewery have agreed to extend their opening hours from their normal nine o’clock closing to accommodate the hash but in order to keep within the terms of their licence we will all have to be out of the premises by ten. Those who wish to continue to recuperate will adjourn to the Alexander Pope, just a few minutes walk away.

If you are coming on this run bring a torch, the Hare says you will need one.

Run 1899 – Thursday September 8th ~ Northfields

Hare – Pope

This week’s run will be from Ryan’s, 282 Northfield Avenue, London W5 4UB Map Link. The nearest station is Northfields and there will be a trail of chalk P arrows from there to help you find this pub. The run will start from the pub at our usual time of 19.15 hours and the pub will store our bags for its duration. And this is Pope’s Birthday Run!