Competitors carry their partner like a bag of potatoes as they trek through mud, jump over logs, and splash through water during the event.
Traditionally, male participants would carry a woman at the Finnish event.
Competing couples on Saturday were not need to be a man and a woman or to be married.
The carrier, one of the competitors, was costumed as Mr. Incredible, and his “wife” was all pink.
Crowds on both sides of the 254-meter course at Sunday River ski resort supported them and others.
To guarantee that the runners’ arms are free for maximum agility, the majority of competitors employ a strategy where the “wife” is carried like a backpack, upside down.
With five times the “wife’s” weight in cash and the weight of the “wife” in beer, the champion departs.
The winning “wife” is placed on one side of a see-saw-like scale, and organizers balance it out with cases of beer on the other side to estimate how much they will win.
