Tough Guy bills itself as “the safest most dangerous event in the world” and it claims to be the world’s most demanding one day survival ordeal. It’s organised by Billy Wilson on a farm near Wolverhampton and there have been 25 stagings of the winter event. They’ve had two fatalities: heart attacks and having done it I can see why. It’s actually a cross country run with lots of obstacles on the way. It took me 2 hours and 45 minutes but I was so cold at the end I forgot to check my time.
I deliberately didn’t read any of the blurb about it beforehand because I didn’t want to put myself off. I now know that every year up to a third of the participants fail to complete it, mostly due to hypothermia. When you arrive at the event you have to sign a “Death Warrant”, which claims to absolve the organisers of any responsibility for injury.






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