University of Huddersfield student takes on ‘The Rickshaw Run’ across India

Sep 5 2009 Huddersfield Daily Examiner

AN ADVENTUROUS couple will risk life and limb to race across India in the monsoon season – in a motorised rickshaw with a top speed of 35mph.

Former Huddersfield University student Adrian Murray and his girlfriend Kate Antjoule are doing ‘The Rickshaw Run’.

The adventurous pair will take on 59 other competitors in a race beginning in Goa in the south of India and finishing over the north Indian border in Nepal.

Adrian, 26, a feature film editor, told the Examiner: “I’ve been working non-stop since I left university.

“I wanted to do something completely different and wanted to get away from the real world.

“An email popped into my inbox and that’s where the idea came from.”

Adrian, who lives in London, has been dating Kate, 26, for two-and-a-half years and he persuaded her to accompany him on the 1,700 mile trip.

Adrian, who lived in Paddock as a student, said: “It’s going to be a real relationship test.

“Indian roads are probably the worst roads in the world.

“And then there’s the fact that it’s monsoon season when we’ll be there.”

Adrian and Kate, a TV producer, have named their rickshaw Tuxedo Royale and will wear tuxedos when they set off on the journey in December.

They estimate it will take two weeks to cross the border and reach Nepal.