Tough Guy Endurance Race
Britain does mud well, and the Tough Guy Endurance Race takes maximum advantage of it. Sunday's one-day survival ordeal was in Perton, Staffordshire, and put competitors through a one-day ordeal of mud, obstacles, smoke and more mud, plus some barbed wire. The race has been run since 1987.
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
Competitors makes their way through a water obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race "the toughest race in the world" at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
A competitor makes his way through an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race - "the toughest race in the world" - at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
A pet dog stands in the mud during the annual Tough Guy race - "the toughest race in the world" - at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
A competitor, right, struggles with an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race "the toughest race in the world" at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
Competitors make their way across an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race "the toughest race in the world" at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
A competitor makes his way through an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race - "the toughest race in the world" - at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
A competitor makes his way through an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race "the toughest race in the world" at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
Competitors makes their way across an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race - "the toughest race in the world" - at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
Britain Tough Guy Endurance Race
Competitors makes their way across an obstacle during the annual Tough Guy race "the toughest race in the world" at Perton in Staffordshire, England, Sunday Jan. 26, 2014. Tough Guy claims to be the world's most demanding one-day survival ordeal. First staged in 1987, the Tough Guy Challenge has been widely described as one of the hardest races of it's type with up to one-third of the starters failing to finish in a typical year. (AP Photo/Jon Super)
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