The Great Brook Run is an annual charity cross-country race held at the end of December which takes place half on land, half in water from the picturesque Cotswold village of Chadlington.

The course wends it way through muddy fields and then back to Chadlington through the icy waters of The Great Brook.

Survivors, for there are some, get to retire to The Tite Inn to warm their frozen toes by the fire, quaff an ale or two and regale passers by with stories of derring do and dunkings, all the while admiring their medal dangling gamely in somebody elses beer.