The red race flows through the French district on Saturday August 9 | Entertainment / Life

The red race is like an annual hallucination. At 10:15 am on Saturday, around 3,000 athletes – to use the term generously – will pour out in the streets of the French district for a 1½ mile race. The jogging crowd will be dressed in a variety of skirts and dresses, from summer quarter to burlesque costumes. This includes women and men. A small percentage of runners will be sober; All are likely to sweat from each pore.

To see the passage that passes is an experience of amazement, even in the old crossroads, where the targets which raised eyebrows are predictable. Participating is probably a hoe.

During its 31st year, the Red Dress Run is a charity event which collected $ 150,000 for non -profit organizations in the region in 2024. The race is presented by the local chapter of The Hash House Harriers, an international organization which is proudly described as “an alcohol consumption club with a running problem”.

Given that there are 52 Saturday mornings, including choosing each year, why oh why the hashs, as we know them, choose to organize their big event in August suffocating? Organizer Brooke O’Bryant said it was because it was so few other than Hashers happened can make a more important contribution to the local economy than a more comfortable period of the year.

You can bet that the quarter will swing on Saturday whatever the temperature, with official participants on the red dress, a substantial audience along the borders and hundreds of unregistered joggers who usually crush the race along the way.

The big news of this year is that the starting point for the red dress is changed from the Crescent Park on the edge of the river in the Marigny at the entrance to Armstrong Park on North Rampart Street. O’Bryant said that for years, the race started with Armstrong Park but moved to Crescent Park in 2017.

But, said O’Bryant, it was not sure that Crescent Park would be available this year, because the management of the site has changed. The event was therefore returned to Armstrong Park.

It is a custom of hash that the route of the Rouge 2025 dress race will not be announced in advance, although spectators can be sure that the path will come back to the starting point, where a huge party after the race takes place.

O’Bryant said that when we refer to the race on Saturday, we should put the word to the race in quotes, because the race is not really required.

The most energetic participants will finish the circuit and will return to the starting point in a few minutes; Others will disappear in the quarter and “Mosey will return a little later,” said O’Bryant. “It’s a kind of day of choice of your own adventure,” she said.

Red dress modes have evolved over the years, said O’Bryant. Last year, everyone seemed to wear Amazon’s same red dress, she said. Taylor swift tributes were also popular and before that, Barbie’s outfits were great for a while. Some runners form thematic groups, such as the gang which wore uniforms of the red nurses and transported syringes filled with Jell-O to alcohol.

It costs $ 89 to be an official participant, who includes open barrels and bars, 10 food stations and Cowboy Mouth and The Crescent Kings music. The first 2,500 runners receive an umbrella of red dress.

The runners will start to come together at Armstrong Park at 9 a.m.; The “race” takes place at 10:00 am, a party after the race in the park starts at 11:30 am and continues until 4 p.m. for more information, visit the New Orleans Hash Harriers site.