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A race "that would alarm most chiropractors" saw competitors showing off their strength as they ran up and down a steep hill, laden down with heavy wool sacks. Footage by Dave Painter, who runs the YouTube channel Britclip, shows participants in the intense relay in Tetbury, a town in the Cotswold district of England. Organizers https://www.facebook.com/events/1709543283291828/?acontext=%7B%22event_action_history%22%3A[%7B%22surface%22%3A%22external_search_engine%22%7D%2C%7B%22mechanism%22%3A%22attachment%22%2C%22surface%22%3A%22newsfeed%22%7D]%2C%22ref_notif_type%22%3Anull%7D said the event dates back to the 17th century. "The concept is disarmingly simple and utterly mad: you run up a hill carrying a full sack of wool on your back. Then you hand it off to a teammate who runs it back up again, like some sort of bizarre rural relay event dreamed up by livestock," Painter said. "The hill in question, Gumstool Hill, is so steep it feels like it was designed as a prank. It's the sort of incline that makes you reconsider your life choices halfway through tying your shoelaces," he continued. "The woolsacks aren't just symbolic, either - they're proper 60-pound monsters for the men and a still-quite-impressive 30 pounds for the women." "These are hefty, spine-warping lumps of sheep history, dragged uphill at speeds that would alarm most chiropractors," he said. (Footage by Britclip/Storyful via Getty Images UGC)