Men's Health Survival of the Fittest

Britain’s biggest adventure running series, Survival of the Fittest, is moving to a new home in London this November, when Wembley Park will be transformed into a colossal 10km urban assault course for the first time ever.

The event, which is organised by Rat Race Adventure Sports, has moved from Battersea to a new iconic home at Wembley Park, where the course will loop around Wembley Stadium before taking participants through a gauntlet of obstacles packed in on top of one another, with plenty of dunkings, dirt, and the odd diversion through the river.

The Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest Series is produced by leading adventure sports company, Rat Race, who have the largest selection of adventure races in the UK, operating 18 events in 2014 with a combined total of over 70,000 participants. They are also the company behind the Man vs Mountain event, and the world’s largest obstacle course, Dirty Weekend.

This year the London Survival of the Fittest course has undergone some changes, with a new location at Wembley Park and a brand new course which includes parkland, industrial lanscapes, enormous scaffold builds and a monster water slide. This of course, in addition to some Survival obstacle classics, such as a colossal hay bale wall, an army assault course area, the ‘Parkour’ zone and the infamous Men’s Health ‘Wall of Fame’ – a sheer eight foot high construction, which competitors must scale before they are able to officially call themselves a Survivor.

As darkness descends, competitors will also have the opportunity to complete a shorter 5k Survival by night. This will be an action-packed 5k and will feature 90% of the obstacle content of the 10km, allowing participants to test themselves against the physical attrition of double the punishment in half the distance.
The fun doesn’t end there; it wouldn’t be a Rat Race event without the signature beer tent, the size of a football pitch, where competitors and their supporters can celebrate conquering the course.