Jamie said: ‘I couldn’t feel the bottom. I couldn’t find my footing.’ They found out it was quicksand – but not the kind of quicksand in the movies. In real life, quicksand is called ...

On top of the obvious challenge that comes with running on sand; the course is rigged with giant sand mounds, trenches and rollers, giving competitors a real test of endurance to determine who is ...

Greg Foot investigates quicksand and discovers why it's so dangerous. Practical experiments show that quicksand is a non-Newtonian fluid that can behave as both a solid and a liquid. The reasons ...

Race start times will be communicated to athletes one day prior to the event. Race start times are determined on a first-come-first-served basis when entering the race on entry ninja. All runners ...