The annual Cheese Rolling festival is world famous, and rightly so. Crazy, deranged people run down a hill so steep that their head overtakes the rest of their body almost immediately. The object is to chase a large round cheese, that hurtles down the hill at lightning pace, although sometimes it is stopped when it takes out a member of the crowd. If you come here, don't read the paper whilst the race is on! I thought about going in the race but decided I was rather fond of my unbroken bones. So I ended up going in the uphill race instead. This was a big mistake. I pride myself on my fitness but almost came last. It was very wet that day and I constantly slid back down the hill. The sneakers I was wearing
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