The Saipan Hash House Harriers donated $866 to Karidat following their Red Dress\/Lingerie Run on Feb. 11, 2017. <\/p>\n
The Hash House Harriers or \u201cHashing\u201d originated in December 1938 in Selayang Quarry,\u00a0in Malaysia, when a group of\u00a0British\u00a0colonial officers and expatriates began meeting on Monday evenings to run, in a fashion patterned after the traditional British\u00a0paper chase\u00a0or \u201cshare and hounds,\u201d to rid themselves of the excesses of the previous weekend.\u00a0 The Saipan club runs on Saturdays.<\/p>\n
At present, there are almost 2,000 chapters in all parts of the world, and the Saipan Hash House Harriers started on Dec. 14, 1984. As of 2003, there are even two organized chapters operating in Antarctica.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0Hash House Harriers\u00a0qualifies as the world\u2019s largest running club. Despite their size and having been founded in 1938, the\u00a0Red Dress Run may be the only completely original idea they have\u00a0ever had. And it happened nearly by accident. On Aug. 7, 1987, a young lady wearing a red dress emerged from an airplane that had landed in southern California to visit a friend from her high school years. Shortly thereafter, she found herself transported to Long Beach, where her friend intended to introduce her to a zany running group called the \u201cHash House Harriers.\u201d One member, noting her gender and attire, urged that she \u201cjust wait in the truck\u201d until her host returned. With that goading, she ran into history sporting her red dress and heels. The tradition of the Hash House Harriers Red Dress Run quickly spread to every corner of the globe, including Beijing, Montreal, Ho Chi Minh City, Helsinki, Moscow, Tokyo, Washington, D.C., Hobart (Australia), and Saipan. <\/p>\n
Over the years, the Red Dress Run has been very successful in raising millions of dollars for a wide variety of local charities.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
This year the Saipan Hash House Harriers elected Karidat to be the beneficiary of their Red Dress\/Lingerie Run, which is run on the Saturday closest to Valentine\u2019s Day in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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