The pushers are the brawn of the group- these people, men and women both, must practice running weekly, if not multiple times a week, and do weight training in order to be able to push a heavy buggy with a person inside up a hill as fast as possible. Though their actual stint in the race is quite short, they each contribute a large part to their team's failure or success. And now we have the driver, no doubt the gutsiest members of buggy. The driver faces extreme wind chill and the rush of tearing down a twisting hill with her face inches from the ground, with only a small window to see the course outside and not even room to wiggle.
Buggy drivers are generally small females, but there are a few male ones.