Pumpkin Racing
Pumpkin racing began in 2008 as a way for local farmers to find inventive ways to employ their enormous pumpkins—some weighing over 400 kg—for competition. Locals claim that it is now harder to obtain a suitable pumpkin for building a kayak because they can now weigh up to 1000 kg, which is too heavy for them to float. Pumpkin kayaks are difficult to control because, when paddling, they have a tendency to spin around their own axis rather than move ahead, according to participants.
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