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.

Wala pang nakakahuli sa keso. Ipadala ito sa pinaka-competitive mong kaibigan. Isang beses sa isang taon, sa isang napakatarik na burol na madamo sa England, may nag-iikot ng malaking gulong ng keso pababa sa dalisdis, at maraming tao ang tumatakbo sa likod nito.

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.

Napakatarik ng burol kaya hindi makatayo nang matatag ang karamihan ng mga takbuhin. Gumugulong sila, natutumba, at dumudulas sa karamihan ng pababa, habang bumibilis ang keso nang sapat para talunin silang lahat. Sinumang unang makakababa ay nananalo, dahil talagang hindi kayang mahuli ang keso.

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.

Walang nakakaalam eksakto kung paano nagsimula ang tradisyon, alam lang na sumulat ang mga tao sa lugar tungkol dito sa loob ng humigit-kumulang dalawang siglo at malamang na ginawa ito nang mas matagal pa. Bawat taon, may mga bagong takbuhin mula sa ibang bansa na dumarating pa rin para subukan, at bawat taon, nananalo ang burol kasindalas ng pananalo ng mga tao.