Edinburgh Rat Race 2007

The Edinburgh Rat Race 2007 has been and gone and what a race it was. Another classic event in the Scottish Capital and UAG's local Rat Race, in which shop owner John was racing once again. The UAG shop was there too at the event centre in the village sorting out racers with their last minute Nuun and Clif Bar purchases, as well as the many member of the public passing through the Princes Street Gardens site.

The race itself was fantastic with the usual random assortment of checkpoints around town on the Saturday night including a barber shop head shave, a Deep Fried Mars Bar eating challenge in a chip shop, biscuit racing, beer mat flipping and so on. In between there was some hard running for 3 hours and John and his Aberdeen Asset Management team managed to finish in 2nd in the main Adventure class.

The Sunday race was billed as the longest and hardest yet, and it was probably a good claim. It was a long day involving lots of biking, kayaking, climbing, abseiling, fort storming, rubber ring spinning, orienteering, dry tooling, and so much more. Yes there were some random events in there, but here's not the place to explain them, check out the report on Sleepmonsters here.

The London race is going to bring the Rat Race into the mainstream big time and the launch this week was the usual Rat Race style of tongue in cheek. Check the pics below of kayaking outside Parliament and Tower Bridge. I wonder if we'll be back here again...

This article was published on Friday 20 July, 2007. Current Reviews: 0