Earlier this month, the agricultural village of Congham, England, performed host to a much less probably group of athletes: dozens of backyard snails. That they had gathered to compete within the World Snail Racing Championships, the place the world document time for finishing the 13.5 inch course stands at 2 minutes flat. At that velocity — roughly 0.006 miles per hour — it will take the snails greater than six days to journey a mile.