To be true to the hash.....this is a drinking club with a running problem, so you must be able to do both. I have been hashing for 13 years (since 2001), and back some 12 years ago, I was voted to be the "RA"....(whatever that means, it was rigged I tell ya....). I met my wife in the hash, and we have been hashing together off and on for over 11 years. Some of our most true friends are hashers (and married hashers), because however weird we all are, we just get each other. That is what to expect from "the hash" as I know it. Jessica is right - we are adults who want to hang out and engage in some running and drinking....and not necessarily in that order!