Now the most exalted title in traditional English sports has fallen to a plucky lass who doesn't mind getting a bit grubby from North Carolina. Congratulations to her. She must of been confident of the win to come all that way, but how did she train over there?
I've stopped to look at this hill not so far from me and it is a good deal steeper than it looks in media footage!
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I would end up with several broken bones and torn ligaments if I tried that sport.
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There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.
Now the most exalted title in traditional English sports has fallen to a plucky lass who doesn't mind getting a bit grubby from North Carolina. Congratulations to her. She must of been confident of the win to come all that way, but how did she train over there?
Parts of North Carolina are quite hilly and even mountainous, not unlike parts of Scotland, so she probably had several hills to choose from--plus lots of beer!
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Yes, western NC has a lot of mountains indeed.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
Grew up ~10 miles away so know how steep it is, there's a few other local 'traditions' (most seem to be really Victorian reinventions) involving May day cheese rolling in the area- tho not as 'extreme'-except the excuse for a pissup
Interesting to see how it has grown from a very local thing to an 'international' event
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I knew that NC had hills, but I was wondering at the local peoples' reaction to seeing a young woman chasing a cheese down them!
Well, we don't know her training regimen. She could have used a tire or some other substitute for the cheese wheel. Or, just practiced rapidly falling down steep hills.
Either way, it probably looked strange to any observers of that training.
WHOA. Long time, no see Piper. I thought you had left SimHQ?
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Originally Posted by NoFlyBoy
Didn't the British invent Golf?
Nah. I think it was the Irish.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
The French get blamed for tennis. Today it sounds like the players are trying to have an organisms on the court.
There was only 16 squadrons of RAF fighters that used 100 octane during the BoB. The Fw190A could not fly with the outer cannon removed. There was no Fw190A-8s flying with the JGs in 1945.