The World’s Most Extreme Race Ever

Tough Guy claims to be the world’s most demanding one-day survival ordeal.

First staged in 1986, the Tough Guy Challenge is held on a 600-acre (2.42 square km) farm in Perton, Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton, England, and is organised by Billy Wilson (using the pseudonym “Mr Mouse”). It has been widely described as “the toughest race in the world”, with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year.

After 24 stagings of the winter event, Wilson still claimed nobody had ever finished all the course according to his extremely demanding rules.