“He’s winning it, with that name,” one Twitter user said exaggeratedly, alluding to the surname of a 37-year-old runner from Cumbria in the north, which is Lehkonožka, which is said to be free.
Lightfoot woke up early in the morning on Tenerife on Friday, got on a plane at midnight, landed in Manchester at four in the morning and arrived at the race site in Llanwrtyd Wells in Wales at nine, two hours before takeoff. And when he ran the finish line at 2:22:23, he had no idea that he had become the third person to triumph in an unconventional, yet popular race (1,000 runners and fifty horses with riders in the saddle).
Ricky Lightfoot crosses the finish line of the race in Wales. He left hundreds of runners and fifty horses behind on the track.Photo: Profimedia.cz
The bizarre measurement of forces between humans and animals first took place in 1980, and one could only win in 2004 and 2007. “I called my girlfriend and said, ‘So I beat the horses.’ And she said, “God, are you kidding?” Lightfoot laughed at the finish line. “I think we raced decently,” he smirked.
Measuring manpower has been a tradition in Wales since 1980.Photo: Profimedia.cz
After a triumph, the almost two-meter-long chaser collected a check for 3,500 pounds (over 100,000 crowns) and then hurried home. He had to report to the shift at Maryport Fire Station at 7:30 on Sunday morning.
