Belfast set for Rodent Infestation

08.04.2009

The Belfast event, which takes place over a weekend, on 8th and 9th August 2009, will be the sixth of an 8-date UK race summer series that will also take in Brighton, Birmingham, Bristol, Sheffield, Gateshead/Newcastle, London, and Edinburgh.

Saturday’s “Mean Streets” is billed as ‘the team running event with bite’. It is designed predominantly as a running (or walking) event and is open to competitors of all abilities. Participants will have 3 hours to hunt for up to 25 checkpoints hidden all over the city centre. Sunday is a bike-based adventure that takes teams further out towards the city limits and encompasses more overt adventure pursuits, such as kayaking, abseiling and navigation.

In the 2008 Belfast Rat Race the activities included rafting and kayaking on the Laggan River, a giant game of ‘Blind Man’s Buff’ at Ormeau Park, fell-running on Cave Hill, an indoor navigation activity at Victoria Square Shopping Centre, a cycle speed ‘time-trial’ at the Harland and Wolff shipyard and an abseil and climb through tall pine trees at Shawsbridge.

This year’s races will start and finish in a specially constructed adventure village in the heart of the city, at City Hall. The event village features well-earned food and drink for competitors and spectators alike, alongside live music plus adventure exhibits and activities for the public to try their hand at.