Military physical challenges
Marches, runs and loaded carries that are based on military tests or run by forces charities, and that members of the public can enter. Each is hard in its own way, and each has an official page with the entry rules.
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Demanding · UK
Take on the PARAS' 10
This 10-mile endurance race is based on the 10 miler from The Parachute Regiment's P Company test week, and it is open to the public.
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Demanding · UK
Walk the Cateran Yomp
The Cateran Yomp asks teams to walk up to 54 miles in 24 hours through the Perthshire hills from Blairgowrie, with shorter 22 and 36 mile options.
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Demanding
Walk the Four Days Marches at Nijmegen
For four consecutive days, walkers cover 30, 40 or 50km a day in and around the Dutch city of Nijmegen, and those who finish receive the 4Days Marches Cross.
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Demanding · UK
Walk 100km at Trailwalker
Teams of four trek or run 100km non-stop along the South Downs Way, aiming to finish in under 30 hours with a support crew meeting them along the route.
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Demanding · UK
Take on the Gurkha Doko Challenge
A doko is a Nepali basket carried on the back, and in this event you carry one loaded with 5kg, 10kg or 15kg round a 5km cross-country course.
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Demanding · UK
Walk the Frontline Walk
The Western Front edition of this walk covers 100km on foot through the First World War battlefields of France and Belgium, from Lochnagar Crater on the Somme to the…
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Demanding · US
March the Bataan Memorial Death March
This memorial march at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico offers a full marathon-length course and a shorter honorary course, and it remembers the surrender at…
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Demanding · US
Run the Marine Corps Marathon
Known as The People's Marathon, this race offers no prize money and runs through Arlington, Virginia, and Washington.
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Demanding · US
Run the Army Ten-Miler
This ten-mile road race has been held each October since 1985 and is based at the Pentagon, just outside Washington.
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Demanding · US
Finish a GORUCK event
Rucking means covering ground on foot with a weighted rucksack, and GORUCK, a private company, sells places on team events built around it, from city rucks to its…
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Demanding · US
Complete the Murph Challenge
The workout is a one-mile run, 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, 300 air squats and a second one-mile run, done by registered participants on Memorial Day.
We list an event here only when its official page shows that the public can enter and that it is still being run. Being listed does not mean the armed forces, or any charity, endorse this site.
Every link was opened and read by us on the date shown on its page. Dates, places, prices and entry rules are on the official page, where they stay up to date. These are demanding events: read the organiser's kit list and medical guidance before you enter.