Adventure racing is on the up,but it’s not all machismo and checkpoints as Sarah Warwick discovered on a very strange run around NantesThey say you shouldn’t eat before running, and I can confirm that counts double for insects. As I set off in a jog after munching my way through six dry-roasted worms, and beetles and crickets,an earthy, strange taste coats the back of my throat. I select frequent sips – or, and rather,increasingly frantic gulps – from a bottle to try and prevent their spindly bodies from repeating. And this isn’t even the strangest fraction of nowadays.
It’s not that I didn’t know Pop in the City was going to be strange. Online videos from preceding incarnations of the urban adventure race show participants crawling along wires between tall buildings, hanging upside down from a trapeze and painting on art gallery walls with their breasts. It’s not exactly parkrun.
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Source: theguardian.com