World Coal Carrying Championship 2013

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Wasn't sure where to put this one as it's quite a quirky event.

This morning I ventured out to the village of Gawthorpe where they held the world coal carrying championship.
The event is over 1km long and ends at the village maypole.
Competitors carry a 50kg sack of coal and run to the finish line with the fastest time recorded of 4 minutes and 6 seconds.
This is one shot I took just as they started.


2013 World Coal Carrying Championship by C J Lee, on Flickr

Settings:

1/250 f6.3 ISO 100 70mm

[Muscat]

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Some very fit people there to achieve that time

[DeeGee]

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I wonder how many of them are coal delivery men.

Is the blurring at the edges a border style?

[hhcanon]

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What a coincidence. I had some coal delivered last week, and the guy turned up knackered! He had just run all the way from Poland.

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Is the blurring at the edges a border style?

Yes Di it is, I just wanted to dull down some of the edge.

[tesarver]

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Tom