Competitors Race around Town in Mass Wheelbarrow Race

A mass wheelbarrow race took place in Derby, UK as part of a unusual annual tradition in the town of Wirksworth.

The boozy annual event, known as the Wirksworth Wheelbarrow Race, requires pairs of participants to run a one-mile course with one sitting in the barrow and the other pushing.

Each team must stop at seven pubs along the way and drink, as quickly as possible, a half pint of beer before continuing the race.

Inevitably, the combination of strenuous exercise and rapid consumption of alcoholic beverages leads to some upset stomachs.

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