Britain’s biggest adventure running series, Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest, is returning to Manchester in November, when Sport City and Phillips Park will be transformed into the base for a colossal 10km urban assault course.

The event, which is organised by Rat Race Adventure Sports, will begin inside Sport City, Europe’s largest concentration of sporting venues, which includes the Etihad Stadium, before continuing over and under the canal and into Phillips Park.

Manchester will be the 4th instalment of a series of 10K high-octane obstacle courses which also take place in Cardiff, Edinburgh, Nottingham and London where close to 30,000 people are expected to take part in 2014.

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 Manchester Survival of the Fittest course will encompass 15 zones which will take competitors across two contrasting venues; the urban stadia of Sport City featuring monster obstacle rigs, and picturesque Phillips Park where there will be an abundance of full-body dunkings and canal crossings.

In total, the course comprises of around 70 obstacles including a mammoth stair climb in the Etihad Stadium, as well as some of the 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.

Jim Mee, Rat Race Adventure Sports MD and creator of the Men’s Health Survival of the Fittest Series said of the upcoming event; “This year we have added some great new content to the route which will result in participants getting seriously wet and muddy. And then, of course, you’ll hit our massive beer tent, to round off your mud, sweat and beers experience.

“Our Manchester event is also an opportunity for Northerners everywhere to gang up on their Southern counterparts as they will again be pitched against London to deduce who is the fastest”.

Entry to the 2014 event is open until capacity is reached and costs £65 per person or £60 per person when entered as a team of five, and £55 per person for a team of ten.

To enter online and order specialist clothing for the event please visit www.ratrace.com

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