^Qwerty^

Has anyone entered this before? If so, what was it like? The website provides lots of information, but some first hand experience wouldn't go a miss.

Reason for asking is that I've been asked if I'd have a go at it, but I really would like to know what I'm letting myself in for if I agree.

http://www.toughguy.co.uk/

Cheers

lightning101

Strip to your underpants and wander the streets of a liverpool council estate on a saturday night. That should prepare you

Jay m A

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LOL

Abdabz

It looks like a superb laugh that! If I didnt have a BMI of 28 I would have a stab at that myself... Would be a good day out but would need a week off work to recover me thinks
If you do go for it good luck, post your experiences and I might join you next July

^Qwerty^

I'd never do it in summer months as I don't like the heat. Odd as it might sound, I much prefer the cold. However, I do have concerns about swimming outdoors in January. Once the cold sets in, it would be very hard to shift.

As for your BMI, I'm not sure it means much, if anything at all, as IIRC, it can't differentiate between muscle and fat. A poster on my gym wall explained what a load of tosh it was.

Abdabz

Yeah it seems the cold water and the distance between obstacles are the only things that make me stop and think... It looks really quite busy too, but I'd be right at the back behind the grannies so i'd be OK...
Im going to send the link to the lads and see how many are up for it...

Dunk

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My 62 year old Dad did it in 2004, although he is a bloody idiot at times.

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The Snug Rhino

i did it about 10 years ago - in 2ft of snow...wading through streams chest deep with 3" of ice on top- considered the worse weather they had ever had at the time.

fcukin stupid race, never went back.

should add...its not that hard on your fitness, i did it with little distance training.....its just boring/cold (in winter) - i saw no one suffer exhaustion but about 30% didnt make it because they froze to death. (obviously if you go charging off like a loon it will do yo in, we just jogged it and found it cold but not hard.....did a proper half marathon few weeks later and that was FAR harder on the cardio)

rb5_336

that looks mad. I'm training for this much more sensible annual event called monsterman

Sean

^Qwerty^

Looking at entering one of the Rat Races next year as well. They look like good fun.

SJ_Skyline

Qwerty,

The Rat Races are great fun although the rope work puts me off a bit. Questars and Ace races are great fun.

ChrisB and myself have competed in a couple of the Questars races with some "reasonable" scores

The best fun though is if you can get into a team doing one of the bigger adventure races that lasts for days. It looks like I've got my wish as I've been asked to manage a team again in next years Microsoft UK Challenge which is a 4 day race.