...and if you dare to return, we'll have made it even tougher!
We run three race formats at Tough Guy HQ:
Tough Guy™ - The original and ultimate challenge. Run on the last Sunday of January and offering brain freeze like you've never experienced before!
Nettle Warrior - Less of the cold, more of the pain! Run on the last Sunday of July and featuring our hybrid super strength stinging nettles. All the same obstacles as January, only twice over!
Screwball T.H.U.G. - For kids over 10 and under 16, accompanied by an adult. A true coming of age for Tough Tykes!
What is Tough Guy™?
Tough Guy is the nightmare of being chased by a herd of stallions.
Your only escape route is a mighty and revered obstacle course. Built from trees, 15 metres high with Tarzan ropes swinging.
No hats and no hook ups. Just pure, organic grip strength from your cold and wet hands.
Belly flop beneath razor wire, the stallions still snorting at your heels, matching your every step. Look deep into the flames before diving through them straight into shoe sucking mud. Then something wakes you, or does it? Were the stallions just a nightmare?
No time to look back, the narrow tunnels beckon. You bravely enter to discover they're filled with murky water. You can't see. You can't breathe. What chance of survival? Grope around and grab that rope. Pull yourself lungs bursting, into the light! You see the sun, or is it just another cruel mirage?
You are faced with a wall climb, as high as a mountain. No visiblity again. Is that smoke, mist or cloud? How do you get down? Take the netting or dive into the freezing lake. You suddenly realise that the sound of stallions behind is fading. You must go on. The only route is through the Arctic water.
A monkey rope, a barbed wire crawl, a rubber snake, a skin ripping snake, you can smell the finish. It's familiar.....you recognise.....it smells like.....cocoa! You know you've earned it!
You wake. You are alive. Bloodied, battered but never beaten.
You are a Tough Guy!
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Event Formats
We run three types of events at Tough Guy HQ
Tough Guy™
The original and toughest test of its kind anywhere in the World. Run on the last Sunday in January, you will need every last ounce of mental and physical strength you can muster to rise to this challenge. Your fear of heights, tight spaces, fire, water and electricity will be tested to the max. Everyone bar the very toughest will be beaten!
Nettle Warrior
Run on the last Sunday in July...think this is the easy option? Two trips around the killing fields and our super strength hybrid non-GM stinging nettles will make you realise what a foolish thought that was! But, if you do complete Nettle Warrior then you still have to come back in winter to prove yourself as a true Tough Guy!
Screwball Thug
Ten to teens Tough Guy - For kids over 10 and under 15, accompanied by an adult