The Race Where the Cheese Always Wins

Nobody has ever caught the cheese. Send this to your most competitive friend. Once a year, on a very steep grass hill in England, someone rolls a large wheel of cheese down the slope, and a crowd of people run after it.

Ingen har nogensinde fanget osten. Send dette til din mest konkurrenceprægede ven. Én gang om året, på en meget stejl græsbakke i England, ruller nogen et stort ostehjul ned ad skråningen, og en flok mennesker løber efter det.

The hill is so steep that most runners cannot stay on their feet. They roll, tumble, and slide most of the way down, while the cheese picks up speed fast enough to outrun every single one of them. Whoever crosses the bottom first wins, since actually catching the cheese has never really been possible.

Bakken er så stejl at de fleste løbere ikke kan holde sig på benene. De ruller, tumler og glider det meste af vejen ned, mens osten får fart nok til at overhale hver eneste af dem. Den der krydser bunden først, vinder, eftersom det at fange osten aldrig rigtig har været muligt.

Nobody knows exactly how the tradition began, only that people in the area have written about it for roughly two centuries and probably practiced it for longer. Every year, new runners from other countries arrive to try anyway, and every year, the hill wins as often as the humans do.

Ingen ved præcis hvordan traditionen begyndte, kun at folk i området har skrevet om den i omkring to århundreder og sandsynligvis praktiseret den længere. Hvert år kommer nye løbere fra andre lande for at prøve alligevel, og hvert år vinder bakken lige så ofte som menneskene gør.