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Wife Carrying Races

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Mar 08 2009

Win a race carrying your wife, or at least someone pretending to be your wife, and you could win your weight in beer. This typically Finnish pastime took place prior to the start of the Leith Hill Half Marathon in Surrey this morning. 6 couples entered the 200m ‘Sprint’, one of two courses on offer, with a rise of about 5m up to the half way point and then back. (There was little interest for a flatter, but much longer 1km course called the ‘Challenge’.) Few rules were laid down. You didn’t need to be a wife or a husband […]

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The vast majority of posts in this blog are about quirky & eccentric competitions & festivals. I started it in 2006 in France with a competition I’ll never forget. Where contestants battle it out to become the World Champion Pig Squeeler, or ‘Cri du Cochon’. I had little knowledge back then of quite how far my pursuit of these kind of events would lead me. I’ve travelled all over Britain (and occasionally further afield) to capture our curiosities and quirks. There’s nothing uniquely eccentric about the British, you’ll find people all over the world up to all sorts of weird and wonderful activities, but we do have a remarkable capacity to embrace the madness. ‘A Brit Different’ is the book that was born from it, my labour of love! So what next? There’s always something interesting going on, so watch this space, only time will tell!

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