3.26 Porkless

Episode Summary

Porkless attended his first Dayton hash in 1999 after More Legs invited him to a running event without explaining very much about it. A conventional road runner accustomed to 5Ks and 10Ks, he needed time to adjust to stopping for beer and completing full-sized down-downs. He nevertheless embraced the hash completely, eventually accumulating more than 725 Dayton runs and becoming one of the kennel’s most consistent members.

As Dayton’s longtime hare raiser and a former GM, Porkless explains how the kennel schedules trails, tracks participation and maintains continuity with a relatively small core group. He describes leading Dayton through COVID with independently completed trails, online circles and even a virtual trail through Paris. He also recounts being unexpectedly recruited to hare at EuroHash in Prague—and then being stranded there after testing positive for COVID. With more than 100 Dayton trails laid, Porkless discusses his love of live trails, creeks, tunnels, cemeteries and serious wooded shiggy, along with the extensive scouting required to make those adventures work.