Twenty hardy souls braved Sunday's sub-zero temperatures for this year's Snowball pursuit race. Things were not looking promising during Saturday’s race preparations as the weather was truly abysmal; a fact to which Anna, Chris, Simon and Harry can testify as they set off to lay a mark in Payasu in conditions that were more akin to fishing for cod off the Icelandic shelf than the Walton Backwaters. All returned safely but with various degrees of hypothermia.